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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 15, 2026 By 6 Comments

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is to enhanced quality of life as water to coffee.

…as wind to a kite?

…that well-worn-in, totally comfortable item of clothing to interacting with strangers in a social setting?

…ok, how about as love is to sex?

We think, (being a clark), you get the idea by now.

(that’s not to say that we, the editorial ‘we’, can’t see the words forming in the thought balloons over the heads of certain Readers out there.)

you wanna know the single thing that, once accepted, can make a difference in your day today? Embracing the tightrope balance of ‘there is only today‘ [and] ‘the heck with consequences, turn it to 11 and go for it‘

not to get analytical (lol ikr? “hey! how come the Curator gets to be all clarklike but I need to not be too scottian or rogerian?) yeah, like it’s even possible to be too scottian or overly rogerian

the reason that the Wakefield Doctrine has such awesome potential power is that it is pointing out ways of relating to the world around us that we all are heir to.

ya know?

 

 

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pre-Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 14, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

So you have more ‘friends’ who are rogers than friends who are scotts and, not possible to accurately account for them…than clarks

Why would this be?

To start, statisticually, in any given population the ratios of the three predominant worldviews are: 69% roger 21% scott and 17% clark

(We good so far?)

For our purposes today we identify ‘friends’ as those people you might think of when, outside of the workplace, classroom, schoolyard or the interior of your parent’s car, you would trust with a personal secret and/or potentially embarrassing aspect of your private life.

According to industrial science experts, you’re more likely to have two other people in your car than four (other people).

So who are your friends?

From the perspective of the Doctrine it breaks down like this:

  • clarks: 1.5 rogers and 1 scott
  • scotts: at least 18 rogers and 1, maybe, 2 clarks
  • rogers: rogers don’t have friends, they have a Herd.*  Not that there is anything wrong with that… the sense of belonging, relationship and fealty to others in (a) Herd is considered the equivalent (by rogers)

So get out there today and count the clarks, scotts and rogers who persist in hanging out with you.

Hey! We promised, at the beginning of this blog in 2009, that if you study and learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine you would be in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

…you’re welcome

*while rogers don’t have friends, they are friends of others (pretty much limited to clarks)

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 13, 2026 By 1 Comment

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

Being a topic-less Monday, let’s do two things:

  1. look to the comments to provide something of a pro tem topic or theme
  2. return, if only as a brief review, to the topic of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool to aid in self-improving oneself
  3. remind New Readers that the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up comprised of three personality types that are predicated on the character of the relationship one maintains with the world; there being three such relationships:
    1. clarks (the Outsider)
    2. scotts (the Predator)
    3. rogers (the Herd Member)

No hybrid vigor needed, just a bit of inter-worldview fluency (or at least tourist level fluency)

damn! says it about all, don’cha know? and…and it succinctly refererences the whole point of learning this here personality here, to be better able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

I think that past is past for a reason and would not want to time travel even in these flashbacks

It was a good story:)

Reelika on:   Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [“…our Sophomore, ‘In a River, Twice-Stepped’]

ty, R! the business of time travel is more hazardous that the old episodes of Star Trek made them out to be.

 

Involuntary time travel. Gosh, nightmare   –Misky

Well said. ‘minds us of our first effort at writing fiction, ‘the Number You Have Reached is no Longer in Service’

 

Cynthia

She joined us on the Saturday Night call-in. A most excellent and spirited discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine and her latest youtube project…the latest of which is:

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and… just in case one was tempted to underestimate the ‘all over the reality front’ of us at the Doctrine, today’s happy song:

 

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TToT the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 11, 2026 By 10 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.

Created by Lizzi R in 1941 even as the summer thunderstorms spawned lethal clouds of German bombers raining destruction on London. Yet her sense of ‘there really should be something like this bloghop in the world if for no other reason than to allow people to bind in common celebration’, resulted in the creation of the TToT. Even if it took another eighty years or so.

And so, we have a Gratitude bloghop, the TToT. Easy to participate, beneficial to share and fun to write. (The secret of this ‘hop is, despite seeming to be quite demanding in form and content (Ten!! things of thankful. In a list, thank you very much)? The hosts (and hostinae) are quite gifted in both the creativity of content and presentation department(s).

So, you’re invited to drag the ole keyboard out from under the dust and post-its and share the people, places, things and events that inspired you to say, “Well, that’s a good thing to have happened’. (any scotts out there?  the passive pluperfect subjunctive voice is optional)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Wakefield Doctrine (hat) on the road. Friend of the Doctrine Alex, with his Doctrine hat, claiming the Grand Canyon by Rite of Hat*

5) it didn’t snow this past week (though it fricken’ could’ve, as temperatures were in the 20°s overnight midweek lol)

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) “oh! the humanity!!” the album we pulled a music vid from, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. We’ll to out on a limb and say, ‘Among Readers today there is a significant percentage who still know the lyrics’. (no, we won’t do the math). damn! Even worse! we remember the order of the songs.

8) something, something

9) old project complete, new project beginning here’s a Before photo (with any luck we’ll have an After photo next weekend)

Before

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

 

music vids

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* ok, one more cut**

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** the worst thing?? we should be that young again lol

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 8, 2026 By 6 Comments

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

If you permit us to dispense with all the set-up and qualification for the thesis of today’s post, i.e. which of the three will get it, why the ‘other two’ don’t, what you say we just jump right in.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up) that is useful as a tool. A tool to aid in our effort to self-improve ourselfs.

As is the case with most (simple) machines and (their scottian cousins) simple tools, their most basic (and therefore, efficacious) operation should be immediately apparent. So too, with our Doctrine.

So here’s the thing: it’s not that the Doctrine doesn’t bring about changes in how we relate ourselves to the world around us, it does. It’s that we don’t always accept the changes we know in our minds are what we ‘want’.

In other words, ‘We go into the Better Self Store. Find what we’ve been looking for and take it to the Checkout counter. Pay for it. Proceed to walk out of the store, leaving our purchase on the counter.*

yeah, like that.

New Readers! Some of you, the more adept at this Doctrine thing, are probably feeling less than well. A slight drop in the stomach, heat in the face etc. Don’t despair. You’ve already done the hard work. Most (say 2/3) of people don’t know there’s a store. Of those who do, most of them, don’t know where it is** and finally, of them who drive into the parking lot, almost all don’t have what it takes to walk into the store.

*or, worse, take out out of the store, put it on the roof of our vehicle as we unlock the doors and…drive away with it still on the roof. (yeah, you more advanced, imaginative Readers, the pedestrians, they be all, “My goodness! Don’t that driver know they’ve left they purchase on de roof?”

** Hint: it’s somewhere different for each of us and is not always clearly marked. (On our maps. We’re doing a metaphor/allegory/parable here, people. yeah, again. lol)

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