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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger 15 Comments

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

The Weekend Landscaper’s Universal Sign of Distress (lol)

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is a list of the people, places, things and events (yeah, you might say that ‘events’ qualify as ‘things’ and thereby allow us to retain the original expression. But we didn’t. Seeing as you’re still reading, allow us to introduce you to the hostinae of this here bloghop here. Being far more … nor-mal and emotionally-developed (i.e. mature and capable of responding on a level of interpersonal sophistication higher than our), ‘Yeah? Well We’re rubber and you’re glue. Like that horse you rode in on.‘ err… our hostinae: Mimi, Dyanne, Denise, Misky, Lisa and Kristi. They will be better able to convey the intent of this ‘hop. Share the gratitude you experience and it is then multiplied in others.

ya know?

For the Doctrine:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see Grat 8 below)

4) Closed on my upstate listing. No more Friday inspection trips. Alas, that means no more driving past the Port of Providence. Elimination of any further opportunities to paraphrase one Mr. Mix-a-Lot’s admission into our current favorite bon mots, i.e. ‘I like big boats’.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge

7) work in the woods (as opposed to wood-working or working the wood) photo of first phase:

8) Hey, couldn’t manipulate the word ‘Wagon’ (photo in previous Grat), into any humorous form (the closest we got was the theme of ‘Wagon Train’ but no one reading this is old and alive enough to have direct memory thereof. So, instead we got Vince Gill and Albert Lee (see video below).

… Hey! Wait a darn minute! That vid!! For TToT gratitioneer, Cai, you know how we say the three personality types of the Doctrine can be observed manifesting differently in three people doing the same thing? The three featured guitar players in the video are Vince Gill, James Burton and Albert Lee. Guess what? roger, scott and clark (respectively)…

Simple, impromptu study guide:

the clark (Albert Lee) is easiest to identify: the guy with the unfashionably long hair and the bad posture … so clarklike;
the scott (ProTip: with scotts? the guy in the black shirt who gets introduced and plays the first solo, (the eyes of a scott, unmistakeable always alert)
finally that leaves the frontman (Vince Gill) as the roger. affable, easy going and confident)

See how much fun the Wakefield Doctrine can be?

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wednezdae -the Wakefield Doctrine

April 16, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

Seeing how we’re on such a self-educating ourselfs kick this week, lets get all Miller Analogy on this bad boy:

a clark is to Outsider as a

a scott is to: Predator/Tasmanian Devil/accidental amphetamine ingestion/all of the above

a roger is to: Herd Member/Obsessive-compulsive CPA/the Rain Man (character) played by David Spader (actor)

ok, enough frivolity.

We were in a conversation the other day about the Doctrine. (Yeah, like those stories you used to hear from the first generation immigrant kid in your elementary school. How their parents spoke the language of the old country but insisted they speak only the anglaise at home.) But in reverse. Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia can tell you about Doctrine-family-dinner-conversations can be.

New Readers! (and Cai) ProTip: When we first encounter the Wakefield Doctrine (and it’s three personality types), first (and most fun) step it to learn the characteristics of clarks, scotts and rogers. However this can lead to confusing the characteristics with the personal reality(s). The Doctrine is very much not about fitting categories of personal traits and such. You know (if you’re old enough) the Sunday Supplement/section of the magazine after the ‘cont’d from’ but before the back-cover. (Earn $$$ while you Sleep!! Passive Income from the Internet. Too Slowwww? New Super-charged system FREE!) “Honey? I found a personalty survey and it has you to a ‘T’ Come on, take the Quiz.”

Well, the Doctrine, once you have the basics down, is easier than that! We’re not concerned with traits and foibles, interests and obsession, tropisms and phobias. We don’t even care if you take the test. (Which we actually have one…of. lol on the Landing Page. Right in the Middle. Courtesy of being ‘convinced’ by Christine to create a quiz. Back in the day.)

This is the cool thing about the Doctrine. We’re concerned more with the character of the personal reality the person lives in. More precisely, the (personal reality) world that they grew up and developed in. What we focus on? The individual’s relationship to the world.

You grow up in the reality of the Outsider, knowing you are different, suspecting there’s something wrong, determined to discover what everyone else already knows? Guess what? You’re a clark. (etc with the other two). The neat thing is we can say, much to the laughter and delight of Readers (who’ve done their homework lol) that you… that’s right ‘YOU’ have a ‘perfect’ personality type. (Some restrictions and conditions may apply. Read the fine print).

So, when wondering about the other person, (or ourselfs), ask this very simple question: Which of the three relationships do they/I seem to have with the werld.

Back to our original theme, ‘the Everything Rule’. The preferred terminology is ‘manifest’ e.g. How does the quality of ‘curiosity manifest in the three personality types?

curiosity is for

clarks: a drive to learn the unknown, the search for (meaning/happiness/becoming) in order to become a ‘real’ person
scotts: why not? life is not about practicing the skills of the hunter, life is about being the hunter
rogers: an affirmation of the Rightness of the world

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 15, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

So, what is the simplest, most immediately productive of takeaways from yesterday’s post?

There are three and only three languages.

Imagine you wake up in a foreign country. You are able to communicate, in your native tongue, so sure you won’t die or get put in jail (at least initially). There is no doubt you’ll get through the day by pointing and miming. You’ll even make a certain progress in understanding the natives. And, if you lack excessive self-consciousness, there’s a chance that in the course of your first day as a stranger in a strange land, you might begin to establish the rudiments of a vocabulary. ‘Car’… ‘Eat’… ‘Sad’… ‘No I don’t want to…’

The single most productive insight made available by accepting the core premise of the Wakefield Doctrine? They look like you, they dress as you do, (better than/worse than), have the same social landmarks: living rooms, class rooms, bathrooms, supermarkets and airports. You know they are, on a fundamental/biological level, the same as you.

But when you stand between a native and the work they must do, the lessons they need to learn, the girl/boy they desire? That is the moment that spoken language, (the first manifestation of Earth’s Apex Predator), becomes glaringly, painfully, embarrassingly obvious. The complex society observed anywhere there are more than two people, exhibits the preeminence of the percentage of their dictionary devoted to the elements of rule and behavior.

…the benefit to learning the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, (and choosing to apply this alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up), is simple:

You will be in a position to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

With a lot of work, the grace of your preferred diety and a bit of luck, you can acquire a level of fluency in the three languages endemic among the Outsiders (clarks), the Predators (scotts) and the Herd Members (rogers).

good luck

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Mmm?undae? -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

We enjoy comments on posts and stories, Sixes and Challengae. However, there are the not-infrequent occasion when a Comment gives rise to a theme suitable (or demanding) an entire Post. Mimi, (a total font (lol) of inspiration) is one such influencer. Denise and Cynthia have for a significant tenure, whispered (or shouted) ideas that lay half-developed in the discourse. Of late, Misky has contributed. Now, Cia has stepped up to the mic with the following:

Even if a person doesn’t own a secondary personality, they can randomly exhibit aspects of it, but not show signs that they vaguely acknowledge they have that trait.

After reading it we thought to ourselves, we thought, “Damn! this is a gift disguised as an opportunity to practice what we really hope to be effective in our writing.”

Cai’s comment clearly coincides conclusively with (our correspondent’s) coming to a near complete understanding of one of the Doctrine’s core concepts, i.e. despite there being only one predominant worldview in which one grows, matures and develops, the ‘other two’ (of the three) remain and have the potential to become significant factors in a person’s ...err personality.

They are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. They manifest to differing degrees in different people. They can be significant or they can be negligible. Example: we are a clark with a significant secondary scottian (and) weak/negligible tertiary rogerian aspect(s).

We have found, among Readers, that often one’s secondary manifests under duress. In instances of extreme stress one might behave in such a manner that, after the emergency has resolved itself, others say things like, “Where did that come from?” The answer: our secondary aspect kicked in.

In a less dramatic fashion, some (of us), exhibit our secondary aspect in less dramatic fashion.

Cynthia is a good example. She is a self-identified clark*. Very early on in our friendship, Cynthia decided to add live, unedited video to her blog. (Selfies at time before they became ubiquitous.) In any event, we were watching the first video and, like in the first thirty seconds we were all, ‘Yow! You’re a natural on camera. Total presence! But…but…. you’re a clark!!

And then, it thunderbolt’d us, “What we’re seeing is her secondary scottian aspect! ayiieee!” (one of us may or may not have actually said ‘ayiieee’…. well, yes. yes we did.)

There is no limit to this secondary/tertiary thing. Well, there is, in a three-factorial sense of the combinations of the predominant worldviews, but our tertiary rogerian aspect is quite weak. So find a roger to explain.

That said, Phyllis is an example of a roger with a significant clarklike secondary aspect. She not only ‘gets’ the Doctrine, she has contributed to the body of knowledge. (Example: rogers create a ‘box’ to define the perfect world and deliberately erase their knowledge of it (the box, not the world).

Thanks, Cai! We’re sure this makes everything much clearer on the matter of the existance, significance and effect of secondary and tertiary aspects!

* Note: no one can, with any actual authority, designate another’s predominant worldview. It is up to each of us to discover. We do, however, refer to others for the purpose of education, illustration and…well, fun, But there is no color of law to it.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 12, 2025 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Established in 1975 as a mimeographic-newsletter, this bloghop is the simplest form of spiritualism available without a purple-heart from a parochial education or a graduate degree in coed college dorm with a focus on blacklight reflection and macramé deconstructionism.

Following is the list of grats we would offer, available for identification purposes and general R&R.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) hypo-grats. (In two-parts) Hypo-grats are a valid experience qualifying for inclusion in one’s TToT list. It is, imo, a perspective that helps our little ‘hop stand out in an addmittedly crowded, (if not somewhat… ‘we-get-it-you’ve-memorized-your-multiplication-tables-but-math-is-not-rote sorta way), field of Gratitude Bloghops. Be that as it may, a hypograt is a person, place, thing or event that would, on first blush, appear to be a bad thing, something you’d just as soon forget and move on from. But, and here we would defer to a certain hostinae an opportunity presents itself. To us all.

7) (hypo-grats cont’d) Example:

We decided to sign up for free seminar at a local liberry: ‘Self-Publishing and Making a Career Writing Fiction’. First session was Tuesday past. Unsurprisingly, the moderator did the ‘Lets go around the table and introduce ourselves’ thing. Small group, the Librarian and three young women. We spoke last, (yeah, shocker that). The preceding three writers-to-be: opened with the anticipated: “I’ve been writing since I was 6yo/ even as a little girl I wrote stories/I can barely remember…”

When it got around to us we said, “I’ve been writing since 2009. For some reason, at that time, I found myself with a blog about a personality theory with three types, it’s called the Wakefield Doctrine. As part of trying to share it with as many people as possible I got involved with various online platforms like the Facebook and such. Almost immediately the thought came to me, “Shit! These people around me, they really write good. So I began to write as much as a I could.”

8) forbidden and surely toxic scents, smells and odors:

mimeograph ink
airplane glue (way before many Reader’s time it was available in the model car section of the drugstore (ikr?)
diesel fumes (the ‘hello, welcome back! no, you’re not too old’ when walking the docks lined with commercial fishing boats)
magic marker smells (still legal, right? toll of surviving diminished olfactory sense)
one’s own socks (for a certain length of time) (come on, we won’t call you out in the Comments)
rotting fish …and last and most challenging!
the smell of wet hair, under a towel after coming out of the water at the beach on a hot August afternoon

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids