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Mid-week/Pre-Six -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 22, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

think of this post as part: Doctrine Fermi Paradox (and part): a tree (or twenty trees) can fall in the forest, the villagers will sleep like baby muskrats…Post

New Readers: a little Insider In~~sigh~~ -formation. When we started writing this blog we had a certain degree of finger-paint mentality. We knew that what we wrote was good. But, well, finger-painting.

So thirty-six hundred posts later… here we are doing the first thing we learned about writing a less-than ehh-not-what-we-meant post, i.e. writing another post.

To resist the clarklike drive to explain stuff, lets review what the most recent exchange of posts/Comments/Reply(s) has offered:

the pertinent idea/avenue of insight in the original Comment/Reply exchange: as organized and logical this personality theory might appear, at first blush, understanding and making use of the Wakefield Doctrine is as much art as science
despite this, while there is something of the ‘vamp until ready’* in many of our posts (intended to instigate discussions of the appreciation, use and meaning of the principles of the Doctrine), there is order/stability/structure to the actual theory (of clarks, scotts and rogers)
fortunately for us, there is an innate integrity to this ‘additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up’ that allows every insight/interaction/inference inspired by employing the perspective to be useable and useful
students and masters alike enjoy a benefit uniquely tailored to their level of appreciation and (individual) predominant worldview

So, our thanks to Mimi and Denise and Misky. These conversations (ha ha, pick your own level of ‘I beg your pardon! I thought this was all quite polite and proper a blog post, I’ve never…!’ use of the word.

So for any New Readers (still reading): there are three characteristic relationships with the world around us; we each adopt one at an early age; this forms the context for our personal and social development (i.e. personality type). They, (all three), are complimentary but not interchangeable or otherwise swapped out at will. (That’s called mental illness). These three are called:

clarks (the Outsider) not an introvert, that’d be intellectual laziness. a clark is the eternal Outsider and their defining characteristic is a need to learn (often mis-understood as ‘understanding’) about the world around them. good-hearted to a fault, un-naturally afraid of scrutiny and, of the three, the only truly creative personalty (as in bringing into existence that which did not exist before)
scotts (the Predator) manifests the drive to survive and continue. the scott is the life (of the party, the effort, the push forward)… natural leaders (scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain). the Future is forced to concede to the Present because of scotts. they are creative by virtue of the force of their personality: “Hey! This is new. You like it/are impressed by it…right!!!?
rogers (the Herd Member) that there is a culture that endures, a civilization that advances the human race and provides indoor plumbing is courtesy of the Members of the Herd. They maintain continuity because, for the Herd Member, the world/the universe is a quantifiable place. The creativity of their reality is a talent for novel re-assembly of elements that exist in the everyday world, which, unsurprisingly results in their popularity in the arts.

* like this, sorta

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 21, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Man, Misky is on a roll! (No, there is no such thing as ‘too many apples on one’s desk, thank you very much’)

To her thought experiment:

I’d like to test a theory, please. Is there a rogerian genre of music? I could listen to Einar Selvik all day, and I often do, but I think this might be a scottian thing.

To prime the rhetorical pump, our Reply:

interesting idea.

(Allow me to be the strict Doctrinairien first: there are genre of music that will appeal to one predominant worldview more than the other two in a noticeable way. And, since I’ve never taken being strict to much to heart, there is the question of ‘is music created/composed by a clark/scott/roger distinguishable by virtue of composer’s personality type?’)

damn! (and thanks) your suggestion is totally deserving of a full AP level Wakefield Doctrine post.

in the meantime, an exercise: what do you think/what’s it make you want to do/how does it make you feel? its being this Einar Selvik’s music

ProTip: if one is inclined to explore oneself for the purposes of better self-appreciation, using the Doctrine is a fun way… this exercise, which can be found in most instances of taking up the alternate perspective of everyone’s favorite personality theory and use it illuminate parts of ourselfs that we usually don’t take the time to consider…

ok!

Before we start, anyone want to jump in?

Mimi:

It’s been such a long day I’m not so sure I’m following everything well. Maybe tomorrow.

(Saturday Morning Cartoon screeching car-tire sound: Here)

Thank you Mimi

Thank you Misky (for your patience in our less than maximally-focused Reply to (your) Primary Comment)

Hey! You wanna hear one of the lesser promoted benefits of learning the principles of this Wakefield Doctrine thing?

If you open yourself to it sufficiently to acquire a functional understanding, it (the Doctrine) will have an effect on you.

What? We forgot to tell you that?

No we didn’t.

(ish)

Just the other day, Denise, in her contribution to the TToT, Replied to a Comment by Ms. Pie who had mentioned how interesting a certain personality theory was (Hint: it rhymes with Wakefield Doctrine). By way of passing along one of the original Warnings to New Readers: ‘If you learn the Wakefield Doctrine sufficiently enough to allow seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in your own life, you may find that you are unable to not see them, in your everyday life.’

Good advice indeed.

What does this have to with our point? Think: Re-do All the Exam Questions Upon Hearing: ‘Five More Minutes, People’?

Simple.

If you’re a clark (or a scott or a roger with a sufficiently strong secondary clarklike aspect) then you have a drive to make sense of the world around you and the people who make it up.

So you go through your day applying the three lenses (the relationship each of the three predominant worldview maintain), to those in your life. Fine. At some point you’ll observe someone who has the same ‘personality type’ as you and… a moment after your cringe/laugh/sneer it will occur to you…

but we’ve said too much already. .

ed. we will return to Misky’s thought experiment as soon as we get back into concise, clear and direct mode’

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 20, 2026 By clarkscottroger 11 Comments

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

Quick! Readers!!! Call it.

Heads: RePrint

Tails: New content.

…on three

Thanks out to Misky. She called heads and we flipped our specially-minted Schrödinger twenty-five cent piece and…

So, yesterday (and the day before, in spirit if not in fact) a discussion sprang into life as a result of Misky’s Comment:

…which leads me to wonder about metaphorical ‘appetite’ like an appetite for learning, or adventure, risk, life, speed, etc. and whether those appetites fall under a scottian umbrella. I’m mostly thinking to myself here because I’m leaning toward ‘yes, yes they do.’

To which we replied:

the fun of using behavioral metaphors (as in the Wakefield Doctrine) is that it is predicated on a person having ‘an ear’ (not musical sound but for rhetoric and rhetorical deviceseses) of course the scottian predominant worldview (relating to the world as would a Predator) includes the unrestrained appetite… especially when in contrast with the price humankind pays in terms of the conveniences of modern culture… (rhymes with rogerian)

does that mean that scotts have to have the unsubtle appetite of a lion on the savannah with a pack to provide for?

yes. yes it does!
lol

the fun and value of metaphors is (imo): life and reality being but a serial story… metaphor is developed to allow insight beyond a culture’s current vocabulary (or would that be glossary? whatevs) so metaphor is both language, writing pad, pencil and big-assed eraser (the good kind, the blond, squarish slightly crumbly type that all grade school kids wanted and rarely had)…

ya know?

So, now that we’ve had a Reader step up and break the ice on Self-Conscious Pond, would anyone else care to offer an insight/opinion/guess/conjecture or ‘what-it-this’?

If this helps: the Wakefield Doctrine insists on two things:

there are three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) they (all three) are a function of the character of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them starting at the youngest of ages. We all grow up and develop our style/strategy for interacting with the world as we experience it. As a result, those of us who learn and enjoy this little theory can rest assured we have the perfect personality.
the Everything Rule maintains that everyone does everything, at one time or another. which is to say, the three personality types (of the Wakefield Doctrine) are in fact in the same reality. anything one might think applies to one, applies to the other two. it is simply manifested differently, according to the relationship the person we are talking about maintains with the world
only one predominant worldviews to a person (secondary and tertiary aspects having an passing effect is valid)

so to our Friend of the Doctrine’s Comment, consider how ‘appetite’ manifests in the three

clarks (the Outsider) discreet sips/prodigious needs
scotts (the Predator) more fun when it gets on everyone
rogers (the Herd Member) I beg your pardon, one simply must consider not only the arrangement and setting but the very Menu, there is, after all, a Right Way

Weigh in as you would

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 18, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 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.

If you are so inclined, get you a list of the people, places, things and events that has made you say to yourself, ‘Damn! Glad that happened.’ Post that bad boy.

For us that’d be:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) new project: reconfigure corner of the lot the cottage is on. actually have a ‘Before’

6) Am grateful to remember to do a ‘Before’ and, subsequently grateful for the following ‘After’ ;} (hey, this ain’t my first TToT lol)

7) fun with words: Here’s the thing. Currently writing a Serial Six that has a number of characters on the trail of a mysterious ‘Time Mechanism’. Fine. My grat is courtesy for curious Reader, (and Six Sentence ‘hop writer Frank Hubney), wondering in a Comment: I’m detecting a connection between Anya Clarieaux and the Order of Lilith that I wasn’t aware of, but I might have simply missed it

So, we went back to the source (of this original intersection of fictional characters) and linked the relevant chapters. What was fun was finding a reasonably engaging story (‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘) that is consistent and supportive of the current serial story, despite having been written six years ago. (Of course, the subconscious mind is the ultimate pack rat and so we really should’nt be surprised. But then again, life itself is a serial story.)

8) something, something

9) the soon-to-be-mysterious ‘Floating Tree at Phyllis’ Treehouse’

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Fraidea -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

It is our practice, when a compelling topic is not readily available, to look to the archives and find something there. Because like we are, all of us, taught, if you want to know something you can’t seem to remember, look to your past.

ok, don’t normally do this*

New Readers: Thursdays (and sometimes, Fridays) are the days we post Six Sentence Story posts (Denise’s bloghop). The rest of the week is for Doctrine instruction, aka this is how it works/what it’s good for/when to know the other person is holding out on you, days. We even keep them separate on the home/landing page. The Six Sentence Stories on in the center column (two down) and the Doctrine posts are the Headline and Most Recent down the left-hand column.

So, lest we get totally (fill-in your most remembered/loved/loathed Teacher here) excessively polemical here in the set-up, lets paste this bad-boy. ‘This being with an old Six”

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 4, 2019

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

Six Sentence Story

Denise is the host.

The rules are: a story based on the prompt word. The length of the story to be no more than and no less than six sentences.

Prompt Word:

CIRCUIT

Darnell-James looked at his friend, Eustis McClintock, sitting in a chair next to a summer-orphaned wood stove and said, “Been five years, this store don’t look nothing like I remember, and I know you never set so calm when the gas pumps have a line of out-of-state cars in front.”

Jutting a chin that showed a half-week of white beard, Eustis said, “If you remember, the back wall of the store was six, seven feet further back, behind where all those little glass and stainless steel doors are now; a fella from the city showed up last year and said to me, “Let me bring you a little of the 21st century and I will give you back your quiet life.”

As the two men watched, a young couple came in through the door, looked around, in that skittish way first time tourists did when forced off the interstate, saw the refreshment section of the back wall and, finding what they believed they came in for, swiped their credit cards and took their coffee and plastic-wrapped pastry back out to their car.

Seeing the half-perplexed frown on his old friend’s face, Eustis said, “The man who installed these cases said something about a circuit; a credit card in the slot completes a connection, the little door opens, whether it was ready-made hamburger or a souvenir tee shirt, said it used an electric eye or a laser or some-damn-thing; the important thing being a circuit is closed by the credit card.

“So, what you’re sayin is,” a grin started to wrinkle Darnell-James’ face, “If the circuit is unbroken, they can buy.”

“Yes, lord, buy and buy,” both men laughed like boys setting out on a homemade raft in the middle of a hot summer day.