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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Quick reminder!

If you’ve been thinking about joining us at the TToT bloghop, this weekend (aka doors are now open) is the perfect jumping-in point.

(No, clarks, we’re not gonna ‘splain what the TToT is. You know. Even if you haven’t been told. Hey, you know the problem with clarks? You accept that it is your gift (aka nature of your predominant worldview) to naturally know all manner of stuff. Thing is, as soon as there are others involved and your knowledge is subject to scrutiny, you play the safe move. Until you see external validation. Of course, we know why that is. And, given the tenor of this intro, we’re going to go ahead and surpass on stating the reason. ha ha, Yeah, that last? a reference to the ‘original rogerian expression‘.)

(ok, but we’re still not going to hand you the crutch of validation… so the progenitor roger in the Before time had a wife who was attending college. And one weekend she had an opportunity to throw a dinner party and invite some of her professors. Important to her to make an impression. Advance her career. (good call, she was a scott) (male rogers are total lay-downs for scottian females, but we digress) anyway the evening went well and according to plan. our (progenitor) played it low-key… until dinner. In the middle of eatery, one of the tenured caught our protagonist staring at a dish and said, ‘Would you like some of these excellent mashed potatoes?’ to which our roger replied, “No thanks! I think I’ll surpass on that.”)

(rogerian expression; a misuse, misspoken use of a word as a form of aggression. it is not quite the correct word, but it is delivered with a sense of ‘Here… try this’ No self-consciousness (arguably a heightened awareness of the reaction of his/her audience), there is a waiting, expectant demeanor… they know it’s incorrect… hell they’re counting on it being so, perfectly skewed, as to cause a reaction. An emotional response. (rogers live in the reality of emotion). you know, as if an angler fish took a moment to paint its signature physical feature polka dots and sequins, before swimming into view…)

(ed. a real rogerian expression always results in am explosive laugh-response… in no small part due to the out of nowhere surprise combined with the fact the word employed is close enough to leave no question it was, somehow, a deliberate choice.)

enough about Herd Members!

This weekend at the TToT: Show us your books Weekend. All are invited to include, (in their TToTs), a photo of their bookcases. More specifically, the right-hand end of the second shelf (of said bookcase).

have fun

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

So, in yesterday’s Doctrine post, we said:

clarks tend not to tell jokes effectively? (Now, scotts! damn! that’s a whole post in and of itself.)

And Frank, he responded:

Regarding jokes, I imagine scotts would use them as excuses for inappropriate behavior, rogers would laugh and might even (witlessly) tell some good ones, but clarks would use humor as self-defense.

And who can blame us for responding to Frank’s comment with the obvious setup to use a vid?

…allow us to retort!

Where to begin?

Hey! Let’s borrow the counseling model/technique that made us* give up three-quarters of the way through grad school. At the time the newest counseling style totally embraced by the psych dept was that of Robert Carcuff. He brought the phrase, “What I hear you saying is…” to the world.

So what we key on (in our Reader’s assertion re: scotts) is the suggestion that scotts would place a value on (having): an excuse. For inappropriate behavior.

While that is a totally valid assessment for a clark or a roger, it would not be something a scott would given a second thought.

Damn! Not for nothin’ but Frank does have an ear for the Doctrine. Quietly frequently he offers a productive insight. In this case today, it is the most challenging aspect and the most useful aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine: acquiring fluency in (the language) of all three predominant worldviews.

So, for those still reading, sure we all get the Doctrine, with it’s surface description and Michelin guide book to the personal reality(s) of the Outsider (clarks), the Predator (scotts) and the Herd Member (rogers).

But the real challenge, just as in learning any foreign language, is to perceive the world from the ‘native’s’ perspective. Or, as they sometimes say, get to the point of thinking in the (new) language.

Hey! Frank! Thanks.

*no, didn’t make us… we were young and this way predated the Wakefield Doctrine

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

So…

Nope… not gonna take the easy(er) path of a RePrint post today. Though god knows there are few more Doctrine-instructional days of the week to incite a Doctrine post than Tuesday!

ok, lets keep it basic.

New Readers: (no better way to stay ‘on track’* to write a Wakefield Doctrine post than to address them/write to that ‘market’). Hey! This blog is about the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We admittedly indulge in the harmless conceit of calling it a personality theory. Mostly because of the word ‘personality’. Which almost all of us are conditioned to think: ‘personality types!’ ha! (the exclamatory ‘ha’ is there just to set us up for one of the fun descriptions of generic personality types, of the kind formally found in magazines and now(ish) online.

The set-up is: “Oh honey! Come here! I’ve just read an article about personality types. It has you down to a ‘T’. You’re a (fill in the blank with random capital letters or maybe some animal species or, if of high academic ambitions, verbs turned into nouns, ‘Driver’ or whatever (don’t forget to capitalize!). In anyevent, our punchline is: “Now Mrs. Gullible has a brand new mirror-shaped club!”

ha ha

Have we mentioned that clarks tend not to tell jokes effectively? (Now, scotts! damn! that’s a whole post in and of itself. Warning!! Be careful what you ask for. Not entirely complimentary to our Predatory friends. At least for the most sensitive scotts. (yeah, we know! as if).

Back to our thesis: New Readers: if you visit consistently you will see a certain pattern here. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday are referred to a ‘Doctrine posts’. The Thursday post is a Six Sentence Story (a prompt based fiction bloghop). Saturday and Sunday, the TToT post.

that should do for today. (found my music vid in that last sentence, albeit a day late.)

*ok! congratulations New Reader!! You’ve demonstrated several qualities considered necessary to the full-enjoyment of the rhetorical, why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk adventure that is the Wakefield Doctrine! No, we know you don’t need that explained, but for the benefit of the roger or scott looking over your shoulder we’ll say this: “The more enduring and consistent quality characterizing those who find the Wakefield Doctrine fun/interesting/useful, are flexiblity of intelligence and a ravenous curiosity.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

Welcome to theWakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

While today is Monday, here in Oceania, it is a holiday. It is called, not without un-intended irony, ‘Labor Day’.

In that spirit, we will eschew any sense of (labor) and paste a random RePrint*.

* spin-scroll through the list of all posts while saying, ‘There’s a light…”

Wait! Before we spin ‘n print! Next week’s TToT will be special. It’ s an Open Audition (for Hosts/Hostinae). More later this week. Mark your calendars!

Monday Post -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘what?! did I read that correctly?!!!* whats going on here?’

October 24, 2016

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Quick, before it fades from my mind, ‘within yesterday’s memory are all the lessons I need to make today the kind of day that I would hope it might be.’

whew! damn, that was close!

No, serially! I was (deliberately) veering from the path I found myself on this morning and the forces of sameness were totally marshaling to get me back on track. ‘back on track’ aka in the same old rut. (Funny how the truisms of life seem to be dual purpose, isn’t it?)

Anyway, as Ellias McDaniels, (no fair looking the name up! If I’m going to all the effort and social risk of getting obscure, then the least you can do is allow me the pleasure of your response that you know the reference.*), would say…

So, why the Monday Post? Two reasons:

I’m trying to side-step my internal critic (that part of me who knows the true measure of my abilities and is kind enough to not let me write anything thats not up to the standards that I should be living up to)

I’m in self-improve-by-virtue-of-better-organizing-my-time mode. (Tell me that thats not the single most aggravating aspect of your day!) Well, tell me that, if you’re a clark. Speaking of which, how long has it been since I’ve written a ‘hey! this is the Wakefield Doctrine! you wanna hear about the best personality theory you’re ever going to hear about?’

thanks! whoever that was in the back of the room (metaphorically speaking) and speaking of back of the class… can anyone out there tell me the personality type who gravitates to the back of the class, the back of the lecture hall, the back of the crowd at the annual awards ceremony and the front of the car? I’ll give you some time. Hell! I’ll give you the rest of this morning to answer.

So, the Wakefield Doctrine is an approach to personality types that will allow you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. With the Doctrine, you will no longer have ask the world, ‘how could I fall for that again! I really thought I knew them better than that!!’
With the Wakefield Doctrine as (an) additional perspective on life, (and that’s what it and every other ‘theory’ of ‘personality’ actually is, and I’m totally including the Oscar Myers Briggs&Stratton, the ‘what color is my vegetable’ (current fav on ‘the Facebook’) and Jung’s ‘What!?! No, I’m not saying that Fred and Wilma were real, I’m saying that archetypes…never mind!’) personality theories. With the Wakefield Doctrine you will be in position to see the other people in your life in a context that allows their behavior to make sense. And that’s all any of us want, isn’t it?**

Well, running out of time this morning, so the basics:

clarks the Outsider: the simplest way to describe this personality type (and to test yourself for clarklike tendencies) is that this person wakes up each and every morning thinking, ‘ok the world and everyone is still out there, I know I can figure it out today’

scotts the Predator: the person most like to be voted: jeez! I’d love to be able to be like that,…. scotts will bound out of bed, ready for whatever is waiting, and they know there’s something waiting outside the bedroom door/at the office/among the kids at the daycare and that annoying woman who is so judgmental

rogers the Herd Member: if you got a little annoyed at the (numbered) bullet points because I clearly said ‘two’ and you have a certain confidence that everything that must be achieved in your day will be, if for no other reason than the fact that your list has the important things at the top; rogers don’t wake up thinking, they wake up planning, and they most assuredly do not bound out of bed, one could sprain an ankle being so reckless, and besides, there’s no rush, the schedule is simple and well established.

…gotta run (or walk (or stroll)) out into the world.

*totally a clark thing, if you respond, ‘yeah, clark, who do you love’ I will feel a surge of pride in my getting to hang out with people who are of a place that allows them to know a semi-obscure musical reference (and that’s that only hint you get!)

** yeah, that is a trick question

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 5, 2026 By clarkscottroger 14 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Our first dog, Ola. She was the epitome of the German Shepherd breed. Large teeth, welcoming smile.

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week those so inclined gather (in a blog-linkatory-way) and share lists of the people, places, things and events that merit inclusion in such a list.

It’s good exercise. Heart/Spiritualistically speaking, that is.

Our List for this week is:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

5) so, a week ago we told the story of the rock and in the course of it mentioned granite. Hostinae cai followed up asking if granite was used in the construction of our house. We said no but promised to find and photorize some residences that did use granite.

Note: for all you geophiles out there, the photo below was taken in the community (actually more a fire district/enclave) of Shelter Harbor in Westerly, RI

6) * someone. but maybe it was in a comment in their own posts. Likely suspects: Misky, Reelika, Chris (though I wouldn’t put it past Mimi to mention bookcases.) In any event, please proceed back to the Present and Grat #7)

7) ok, this is not funny… serially. someone in a comment (somewhere)* mentioned ‘Bookshelves’. So, naturally, our first thought was ‘Hey! What a great Grat!’ (Go back to Grat #6… hey, nowhere in the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules does it say linear causality most be respected) So say what you will about grand books and fiction about the tragedy of aging such as Cervantes’s ‘Don Quixote‘ or cinematic delving into the effects of time on culture and the ordinary as inspired by great books like HG Well’s ‘The Time Machine’.

Once the center of our everyday homelife, at minimum serving as jealous guardians bracketing our ‘tele-vis-shun’ the bookcases in our home, have now been relegated to… the laundry room, (didn’t see that coming Mr.-451-Farenheit-Bradbury’ didja?). Below is one of our two remaining bookcases. The five others, required to hold our four-hundred forty-four other books is pictured in Grat #9 (We mean, serially, who doesn’t hear Ecclesiastes 3:6 – ‘A time to keep, and a time to throw away.’ (Not stepping into your turf, Frank, but had an earworm of ‘the Byrds’ totally sneak in the room between typety-types.)

8) something, something

9) our new Ba’al:

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

*gotta comment here. Sure it was among the first ‘music videos’ (no, not video as we know it today) but still! They’re the fricken Beatles and no one thought to control access to the filming session?!?! More than once, if you pay attention to the background (through the hedges), you can see people walking by and …and! around minute 01:00 you can see the guitar cases they forgot to move out of the shot. Still, for some of us, sure takes ya back, no?