Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

to continue from yesterday’s Post, lets stick with the basics.

Better yet, let’s answer the question on the minds of 2/3s of Readers* ‘Why go to the trouble of doing all that Reading when we can go buy a book on the Oscar Meyers Briggs Random Letter system or (and this guy we actually did love back in grad school days) William Sheldon‘s ‘Constitutional Psychology’?

One reason: 1) the Doctrine is a fun and effective to understand people and such, more importantly, B) applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, we are better able to appreciate the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Which, quite neatly, takes us back to ‘the Everything Rule’. We all experience reality as it manifests relative to our predominant worldview. There’s a rather long metaphor, (maybe a simile, probably not an analogy), about the three friends standing across the street from a popular restaurant in the middle of the noon rush. Won’t go into it here, but obviously the three are a clark, a scott and a roger. (New Readers! extrapolate what is going through the minds of our friends on the basis of their being: an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member. Write your questions below)

The thing we say about learning the Doctrine is that we strive to be fluent. That is, like any other ‘foreign’ language, the more we practice it, the better we know it, the smoother the ‘translation’ is… the goal of fluency being the capacity to think in the (foreign) language.

as Hamlet says to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy… you wanna know how many things? well, do you? come on!! I know you want to know… just ask me!! Come on.”

What the Bard left out: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) each with their own characteristic personal reality

all right, we’ve said too much already.

* 2/3s is far too charitable a number to designate the percentage of those here, (more than twice), relative to predominant worldviews. the accepted percentages of the three ‘personality types’ of the Doctrine in the general population are: 66% rogers, 10% scotts and 23% clarks

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of habits and repetition: the old is such a sucker for playing dress-up as the new“

February 10, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

~~Regular Readers of this blog are most likely raising eyebrows (surprise-rise of twin hairy suns on the coffee cup horizon) and whispering, ‘Ruh roe’.~~

~~But serially, the work of self-improving ourselfs can be frustrating.~~

~~The catnip of ‘Self-Improvement’ is surely most.~~

Hold on! New topic! (Throw those syllabi down on the ground!!)

‘the Everything Rule’

The Everything Rule states: everyone does everything, at one time or another.

While it’s most prominent value, vis á vis the Wakefield Doctrine, is to remind New Readers that there is only one predominant worldview (‘personality type’) per… err adherent. You don’t get to be a unique, Doctrine-challenging, special class of clark/scott/roger for one reason: a) that’s not how the system is laid out and 2) thanks for identifying yourself as a roger! (lol)

The thing of it is, this position, (of one predominant worldview), illuminates the core principle of our little ‘personality theory’. Our relationship to the world around us creates the personal reality we exist in. And …and! at the heart of the Everything Rule is the notion that we, (each of the three personality types), manifest the common reality according to (this) relationship.

Example: no!! the heck with the time-worn ‘if being a cop is most suited to a scott, what are clarklike and rogerian policemen like?

Instead let’s paraphrase a mid-20th C proverb (Maslow’s Law of the Instrument):

When you’re an Outsider (clark)/Predator (scott)/Herd Member (roger) everything in the world is: a threat of scrutiny/prey or larger predator/the Herd (except for outsiders and predators).

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

back to ‘work’

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It, (the Doctrine, not the people, hell, not the world, for that matter), proposes that, in service to the ambition to categorize personality, the relationship a person has with the world (around them) is the key to an insight that none of the others can offer.

In the Wakefield Doctrine we have three predominant worldviews, aka personality types. They are:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

In more mainstream schema, there is a list of characteristic...characteristics (lol), or, if one is in a more formal frame of mind: drives to, tropisms towards or a bunch of letters from the alphabet.

Whatever.

Here’s the thing: imagine you find your young, (very young) self to be what you can only describe to yourself as being an Outsider. Those around you, (most likely immediate family, but maybe institutional personal, social workers, nuns or wolves), seem to know what’s going on. Wait. Hold on to that assumption.

It’s not that they know whats going on in a realtime, literal sense. No, it’s more that they appear to know each other. At very least, (to keep this Monday post under 1202 words), they (these others) share a common belonging. Worse, they give all indications of sharing a collective knowledge of procedure, in the sense of social order. They know they belong. (Major Hint right there).

What do you do?

That is the underlying rationale of the Wakefield Doctrine. What you do in the above scenario is, of course, learn, (as quickly as possible), what they’ve been taught that you’ve somehow missed (or… advanced concept here ‘you weren’t taught’) i.e. how to get along, fit in and/or simply survive long enough to figure out how the game is played.

New Readers! This has been an example using one of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. Comparable scenaria can be constructed for the other two.

Fine. Monday assignment completo

oh… oh (yeah, old Readers? you can do an Arnold Horshack in your head if you choose)

The Doctrine says a couple of other things.

You form one predominant worldview as your ‘personality type’. The other two remain as potential potentials (lol) But you do not get to be a ‘a combination of…’

Also? The following: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’ the Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral’ and finally (ish) ‘there is no good or bad predominant worldview’ (but there is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ so do your Reading!)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week the invitation is extended to bloggers and other writers to create and link a list of the ten things that push to the Free Associate line when the word ‘Gratitude’ is announced. Limited only by one’s imagination, it is a good thing to do with words and such.

So, come on down!

For the Doctrine, our TToT list (down through the Summers):

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the days are getting longer (while that might not shovel the snow, it do make it less oppressive)

6) lets try this: a vid clip from 2013 which we’re grateful we uploaded the following video proving there is a time when the temperature rises above 32°

7) just looked at the whole post…clearly we’re grateful for living near an ocean

8) something, something

9) damn! new frozen water this morning! Grateful for the song prompt!

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)

Music vids

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When Nez Dae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 4, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Today we review the Basics.

The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.

The only one personality types that should matter is yours.

Asking ‘Why’ to the previous assertion is not a good sign.

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

A clark’s curiosity is as inexhaustible as a scott’s libido and a roger’s certainty.

ed. from 13 years and 8 days ago:

clarks: the Outsider, view the world as would any rather intelligent, fairly resourceful, not so aggressive explorer would. The goal for most clarks is to learn the information that they surmise was made available to every child (they may have been in the bathroom at the time of the ‘how to be like everyone else’ lesson) and therefore be in a position to continue their lives in as close to a satisfying and fulfilling manner as possible. In the meantime, clarks will spend their time on the fringe, they will cultivate friendships with scotts and rogers to help pass the time and to get them into the better clubs. clarks are the truly creative of the three personality types which sounds cooler than it actually is, as most expressions of extreme creativity are, as a rule, met with scorn, disdain and disregard (not to mention, not paying very well). clarks take un-selfishness to a near psychotic level, valuing loyalty over any other ‘common emotional experience’, they will be the best, of the three personality types, to have around at times of emergency, they make excellent school teachers (female clarks: grade school, male clarks: late high school, college). The saying is ‘clarks live quietly and leave a well-preserved corpse’

scotts: the Predator, view the world as any well-armed, well-equipped conqueror would. The goal for most scotts is to live life to the fullest, everyday, up until someone forces them to stop. scotts are natural leaders, with the qualification that those who follow scotts do not have any carefully thought-out expectations as to where they will end up, (when the scott becomes bored with the leadership-thing). scotts crave attention the way that most aerobic lifeforms crave oxygen, so much so, that a scott will settle for any kind of attention, up to and including: derision, laughter, scorn, hate, love or passion….all the same to a scott. female scotts created the stiletto heel industry, single….er, handedly, scotts, both male and female are attracted to rogers as their preferred form of nourishment. scotts do enjoy the company of clarks, as clarks are neither prey nor predator (at least, most of the time)…scotts are just out for a good time, a loud time, a passionate time. These are the people that they say, ‘live fast (with as many partners as possible) and leave a burnt out shell of a corpse’

rogers: the Herd Member, rogers view the world as does the Cleric standing behind the Conqueror and is salivating at the prospect of bringing salvation to an entire race of indigenous peoples. rogers are the reason that we have: civilization, healthcare, culture, jihad(s), jetliners that hardly ever crash, a banking system (that will on occasion, crash) law and justice, witch burnings and the commercialization of the arts. rogers provide stability to the human experience at the cost of innovations and creativity. after a the scott has raped and pillaged and burned the new continent and moves on, the rogers will organise and provide relief to the survivors, provided they (the survivors) are willing to accept the lord and god and the rules and the life that he (the roger) is so kind to bring to a people, so obviously in dire need. These people! these are the ones we say, ‘live moderately and imagine how many people will attend the funeral of the corpse that proves you lived‘.