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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 27, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Fortunately for us, and Readers, both new and old, we (your Curator) has had the input of scotts and rogers down through the years of these pages.

It goes without saying that these ‘Friends of the Doctrine’ (the scotts and rogers) have all had significant secondary clarklike aspects.

New Readers: it is said that if you return to this blog more than once (and not under duress) then it’s safe to say you’re one of two kinds of Readers:

clarks
scotts (or) rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspects*

The reason being, it is within the personal reality of the Outsider (clarks) that you find curiosity and pleasure at the idea of new, unusual, interesting, odd and off-the-wall ideas/theories/perspectives.

*Quick recap: we, all of us, have one predominant worldview lasting a lifetime. One. However, the qualities of ‘the other two’ remain accessible …somehow. The net result is that you can find a perfectly normal clark (well, stay with us lol) who at times and in certain situations exhibits an unbridled aggressiveness found only in scotts. Equally, it is possible to find rogers who demonstrate an openness to radical, hell, heretical ideas (granted they keep them in safely locked display cases lol) and finally, we all have one friend who is a scott but his secondary clarklike aspect is sufficient to allow him to contribute to our understanding of Predators.
Important Point: more to clarks: you have scottian friends, (well at least one), and have had a long-standing relationship with a roger. You love this Doctrine thing (well, duh) and you tell them how cool it is. Their response: I don’t get it/well, if you enjoy it by all means have fun/hey, maybe you can play tricks on ’em. Sorry. Lack of secondary clarklike aspect. We understand. No, it’s nothing to do with the idea or with how you are relating it. A scott or a roger with a secondary clark deficiency will never ‘get the Doctrine’. Not because they think it’s stupid or anything. Just a lack of free-range imagination/subversive curiosity/renagade sense of whimsy.

We’re sorry. And no! It’s not how you are explaining it. It’s them, not you.**

Bottom line is that some of the qualities of one’s non-predominant worldview can be available. We (your Curator) is an example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian (‘scoe-shun’) aspect. This is exemplified in the assertion (for clarks) that ‘we abhor being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored‘.

So, back to the ‘prompt Comment’ for today.

** oh man! remind us to relate one of the single most beneficial insights derived from the Wakefield Doctrine. Sorry, it’s a clark thing. You might get it if your secondary is strong, tomorrow, we promise

Misky, she be sayin’…

Damn outa time! Will return to the question she poses in her Comment tomorrow. Promise. (It has to do with how would a roger deal with rebellious or unruly members of their Herd. Great topic).

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 26, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

To start us off on the week’s Wakefield Doctrine posts lets hit the more advanced curriculum: (WD. 205 Adv. predominant worldview determination)

a Comment on last Friday’s post from Misky:

I just read an article in the newspaper (yes, I do still read newspapers, daily) that a TikTok person having millions of followers says she always feels alone and lonely. She is busying herself all day TokToking, and then wonders why she’s alone? Where am I going with this? Well, nowhere in truth — except a personal analysis of when is a herd not a herd. (not herb, you stupid spellchecker; herd — herd)

to which we Reply:

…besides the question you post, (as to the possibly ephemeral nature of ‘the Herd’), there is the very real value (for those at your level of understanding of matters Doctrine) of seeing/hearing/taking-in-the-context of utterances as part of one’s assessment of (another’s) likely predominant worldview.

The Wakefield Doctrine has, as most creative/novel constructs/perspectives on how to relate to the world around us has an element of art to complement its science.

The thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is that the set of characteristics associated with each of the three predominant worldviews has a real world consistency that goes beyond the normal guessing. (“Your favorite color is blue and you avoid people who default to the negative/aggressive end of the spectrum.”) This is the science.

The art is our own sense of how things fit together.

so to the question: is this an example of a special-case definition of ‘Herd’ (as in Member of the Herd, aka rogers).

No. That distinction is unnecessary. The Herd, to a roger, is all that they know of the world around them (and the people who make it up). Find a zen monk who’s a roger and hold up a picture of sub-adults all enraptured by a social app on their (collective) phones. Ask: is this a part of the monk’s Herd?

The answer: It is now.

We hope that clarifies the issue.

Bonus Doctrine Insight!! So, we’re sitting around in your library discussing the Wakefield Doctrine. (the new footman of your household has already brought our afternoon tea, all under the watchful of your butler) and in response to your anecdote, we say, “Excellent Doctrine(izing)! She is clearly are roger. The two indices are her claim of ‘millions of followers’ and the somewhat boastful, if not redundant, lamentation of being alone and lonely. All the while, as you so astutely note: busying herself all day TokToking.

AP Doctrine note to the last point: that is a roger spreading her quilt-of-belonging out for all who come into range of her ‘asking for help or aid’. (Hey it beats going to all the trouble of constructing a cottage from delicious candy and bon-bons and such?)

Good question. Good eye.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 15 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful. (TToT) bloghop. Each week, Readers, writers and bloggers visit and contribute to this exercise in the cultivation of the state of gratitude.

Following is a list of Ten people, places and things that have inspired, sparked and/or hit-me-in-the-face-with-a-dead carp creating a moment of gratitude. Not bad, given our starting point/baseline vis-à-vis seeing the world in a healthy, productive way.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Hey! New Hostinae has joined this band of mutants! Reelika Pedak. No! It’s true! Voluntarily and everthang. All kidding aside, we’re very grate…. what?!?! cha…ching! See Grat #7

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Photo at the top of the post: been a quick Autumn… most leaves down. There is surely an old Swamp Yankee muttering about how this Winter will be snowy…way more’n last year.

7) The thing of it is, given how much time we’ve spent in the Grat Space. It’d be a surprise if we hadn’t learned a trick or two in creating lists (of Grats) and such. So, yeah seeing the company of talented writers and bloggers grow here at the bloghop that Lizzi created is so a grat!

8) something, something

9) oh yeah! forgot to chronicle the end of the summer landscaping at Phyllis’ cottage. (Before photos? Never remember those). But here’s your After photation:

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

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Frisae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 23, 2026 By clarkscottroger 13 Comments

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

Let’s wrap of a rather productive week of Doctrine posts with some old-school provocative statements, assertions and ‘wth-are-they-talking-about?’

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them

essential concept 1: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

essential concept 2: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, culture and age neutral

when it comes to couples (we had a long, engaging set-up for this assertion, but it’s Friday (creative post-title spelling notwithstanding): the Wakefield Doctrine is not intended for use as a mirror-shaped club

you can’t get the Wakefield Doctrine wrong (and you can’t break it)

a scott is to a clark as a roger is not to a scott as a roger is to neither*

a scott alone in a room, isn’t

a roger alone in a room, is sleeping

a clark alone in a room is free

the Everything Rule: everyone does everything, at one time or another

ok… reminder this was the height of humor, back in the early days of this here personality system blog when we thought, ‘What can we do to encourage Readers to comment and, even better, ask questions. Our encouragement: “Just remember, there are no stupid questions. Just your questions.”

lol (Interesting inspiration for this joke. A quote from one of the giants of marketing, David Ogilvy, in the 1950s.)

Funny thing about comfort zones. We discover them on our own if we’re clarks, taught they exist by scotts and reassured that they’re not, completely a bad thing…by rogers.

Don’t forget! The Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop is recruiting Hosts and Hostinae… so send in your application or just go ahead and write and link one up now!!

Hey!! What’re we thinking??!! The TToT is live now! (Doors open 12:05 am Thursdays) Lets give some credit to them what don’t wait ’til the last minute to write and publish….

Cai

Aptivi

and…. of course, our frequent correspondent, Misky

They will be joined by the other Hosts and Hostinae over the coming days, stop in and say ‘Hidy’

*whoah! a new one… still true, though

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of Antipathy and Affinity inherent in the three predominant worldviews” Part 1

October 21, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

So you think you’ve gotten yourself learned (you know, ‘learn ed’) sufficiently as to the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews of our little ‘personality theory’. Let’s not start writing recruiting pitches, expositions, graphic novels or sermons quite yet.

If you’re comfortable imagining the world through the eyes of the three, you’ve also encountered a nagging sense of confluence (in the world as each experience it).

It should not come as a surprise (nor an opportunity… roger). After all, we’re not talking science fiction here. With the Everything Rule as a backdrop (or for that matter a drop cloth) consider the proposition:

Of the qualities of each of the three, which is most antithetical (producing feelings of extreme, existential antipathy) in which of the others?

ok! let’s throw the threasus on the floor, and here is the worst thing ever for each:

a clark? scrutiny (from the rogerian personal reality, this is love transformed in torture)
to a scott? a world in which nothing is consistently reliable (from the nothing is really, totally real/everything-is-possible existence of clarks)
for a roger being alone and un-connected in the company of others (from the lone wolf world of scotts and, for good measure, the life of the Outsider)