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Wenzdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 10, 2026 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

I kind of hope I’m not a roger, but then I do find getting machines to do what I want them to do easier than getting people to

As promised (in Comments to yesterday’s Post) let us consider the matter of ‘secondary and tertiary aspects’

As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that, while we all are born with the potential/capacity/inclination to relate ourselfs to the world around us in three characteristic ways:

(as would) an Outsider (clark): forever searching for the lesson they believe everyone else learned, i.e. how to be ‘a part of’ the family of humans (no, roger, we don’t think we’re aliens! you’re just saying that because of your own insecurity). clarks exhibit a relentless curiosity as a result of their determination to learn what they believe (incorrectly) to be the key to becoming a real person
(in simple terms) a Predator (scott): live to hunt, hunt to live, embrace what is and eschew needless (and risky) self-doubt (a Predator spending excessive time in self-contemplation is, at best, a hungry Predator, at worst?…prey)
(as deserved) a Member of the Herd (roger) celebrating Life embracing the set-points of living and sharing (relentlessly) with others the Right Way

OK. Everyone with us so far?

Emphasis: only one predominant worldview per customer.

Fine! We’ll provide the Why (just this once, only ’cause our Guest interrogator is possessed of a certain patience (2 Corinthians 11:19); for reasons not yet understood, at a very early age, we, all of us, relate to the world in one of (the) three ways listed above. We learn to interact with the world, we develop our social strategies based on the personal reality we experience and that’s why we say, ‘You have the perfect personality based on the personal reality in which you grew up and matured(ish)

But! We all retain the potential of ‘the other two’. In some of us, these are more expressed than in others. These are referred to as secondary and tertiary aspects. Most often exhibited when under duress, in some, the secondary (most commonly) is a personal quality that seems at odds with one’s predominant worldview.

Example: I, your Curator, am a clark (predominant worldview) with (a) significant secondary scottian and (an) insignificant tertiary rogerian aspect. Serially, who can doubt that?!?! Look at the fricken picture!! Hint: I’m the one in the center looking all ‘They said the 9:30 am Express to Spectrumville stopped right here. What the fuck is up??!” (lol predominant and secondary, dig?)

Example: Every one of you reading this, (this being your second visit at a minimum aka not under duress), whether a scott or a roger has a significant secondary clarklike aspect. How do we know? Because without a (significant) secondary aspect, everyone is left with their predominant worldviews. A scott is a most effective Predator and counter-intuitively, is not curious about anything not having a direct bearing on the(ir) Hunt. A roger already knows everything that matters, to question that, well, that’d be crazy. The world is quantifiable. Ain’t no ‘un-imaginable’

To further illustrate this, one might say that having a significant secondary or tertiary aspect is like have a talent. It’s there, within you more often than not, not particularly obvious. When we accept it and embrace it, what it offers (something that might not be prominent in one’s predominant worldview) is distinctive and, very often, hit or miss. Just a potential.

Back to myself as an example: as a clark I am creative; as a clark expressions of creativity is often bound by the chains of self-consciousness. As a clark, I am photophobic (don’t even mention voice recordings) or, god-forbid, live video. The self-consciousness of a clark is often conflated with being an introvert as the primary …symptom (lol). But a clark is self-conscious primarily due to our aversion to scrutiny. Back to me. lol Writing for others to read is fraught with risk. Suppose they don’t like it? Suppose they point and say, “Boy that’s dumb.’ Very real concerns in the personal reality of a clark.

So how to account for the seeming contradiction manifested by this blog, video posts exhibiting no concern for appearance, and other interactions with the world? One word: Secondary scottian aspect.

Full Disclosure: this section (from ‘To further illustrate…’) was added after posting.

Why this ‘Disclosure’? Hey I may have a significant secondary scottian aspect, but I’m still a clark.

So, to our correspondent Frank Hubeny we say, “Hey! Embrace your secondary rogerian aspect. Don’t worry, it won’t replace or push out your predominant worldview. You’ve spent a lifetime practicing the skills to deal/interact/thrive in the world, as you experience it.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

a manifestation of the creativeness of Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia. See 1) note-of-pedia at bottom of post.

Another RePrint!

Plus, shoutout to them what write Comments and contribute to the conversation, looking (for today) at Mimi an Misky and Ms Pie thanks!

A word to New Readers:

The beauty part of the Wakefield Doctrine is how true and accurate it is when describing the personal characteristics and behavior of it’s three personality types, aka predominant worldviews*. That said, a little fun-with-our-imaginations is required here. One word: personal reality.

And in practical terms, only one of three. The reason for this aside yo, is a thing called ‘the Everything Rule’. Simply put, (and we’re telling you now so as not interrupt the lyric flow of this narrative lol) the Rule is: Everyone does everything, at one time or another. Obvious right? (if you answered ‘of course’… you’re in the right place.) The thing about the Doctrine is that while it describes how one (of the three types) might react/respond to a situation in a characteristic (and therefore consistently reliable manner), that doesn’t mean that… running out of time. Damn. What it means is that there are not three separate and distinct categories of life and such. There is no, “oh! That is something only a clark would do.” or “Only a scott would experience that situation.”

Remember how we said each of the three predominant worldviews reflected a different personal reality? It’s true. But in the interest of preventing the rogers from embarrassing theyselves by saying: “I must be a new, fourth, personality type. A special ‘all three at once’ type. To this we say, “No. Stop that. That is simply not how this thing of ours works.

We use the term ‘manifest’ to account for the fact that clarks, scotts and rogers do not inhabit three different realities. Try this:

Occupation: police person (aka ‘cop’). All three can be a cop. What the reality of the occupation is? Very different for each. We’ll leave this as a homework assignment. (Hint: ‘Predators love to ___ prey’, ‘With a lot of ____ and other special effects’, When successful they totally enjoy ___(ing) their kills/captures.

there ya go. let us know if you have any questions. While it is true that ‘You can’t get the Doctrine wrong’ It is very true that a person can’t willfully mix shit up. Thing of it is, we (and this means all those of us who think this is a useful, productive and fun additional/supplemental perspective on reality?) we’ll know. And, in answer to the thought-balloon question out there, ‘No. No one is going to correct you. At least not ex cathedra. The only cost of getting it wrong is that you miss out of the utility and fun. Kind of the whole idea, ya know. (Usually when a person ‘gets it wrong’ they figure it out or just don’t bother. After all it’s just a blog. And a little tiny group of people who get a kick out of the strange and unusual.)

the Wakefield Doctrine (…break time!)

November 10, 2009

Apropos of nothing, one of my favorite sayings is ‘you can’t step in the same river twice’. If this internet, and by extension the blogosphere is not the perfect proof of the truth of this statement, then I am going to sit here and wait for roger to get it into his head to write some more Comments. Because even though the Wakefield Doctrine itself has not changed, if anything the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers has become even more ‘real’, the writing and therefore the writers have been changing.So what? I’ll tell you so what!
I am writing this prima facie that there is a reader. You, in fact, are that person. (You read therefore I have written). Without this assumption there would be no reason to write. Independent of the practical value of the Wakefield Doctrine in terms of understanding those around us, the drive here is to be heard [read:read ha, ha]So if we are writing this on the assumption there is a reader, then whats the river shit all about? Huh?(I said ‘apropos of nothing’ didn’t I?) But since you asked, the point I guess is to get a sense of the fundamental impermanence of reality. The fact that there is nothing of the past that immutably connects to the present. Only our willingness to assume that we all keep to our scripts.I think that noise you hear is the baleful mewling of a herd of rogers. Rogers, as we should all know by now are the guardians of continuity. By maintaining the past through rules and science, laws and traditions rogers let us learn! More so rogers are the reason we are self aware. Scotts are pure energy, here and now, no past no future, not much to build a civilization on. By keeping the belief that the world is by nature a quantifiable place, rogers allow us to stop and reflect on what was. Myths and legends are as important a contribution from the rogerian faction as is the science and engineering that they also have given us.(Quick break.) (Hey clark, easy up on the metaphysics there, pal! The rogers are getting glassy eyed and the scotts are starting to gnaw on the furniture)(OK, I get. Anyone for Bullet Points? (Everyone loves Bullet Points!)

rogers are your engineers, accountants, doctors (but not surgeons)

rogers are your carpenters and craftsmen, (but not your General Contractors)

rogers are your teachers (at least the ones that end up becoming school adminstrators)

scotts are your performers, your front men/women

there are three occupations in the world: salesmen, scientist and machine operator

scotts are your salesmen, not necessarily literally, just the person who is driven to make others conform to their Will

clarks are your scientists, the creative one of the three, looking for what isn’t, not at all concerned with practical application

rogers are your machine operators, not just engineers, but musicians, any one who needs to follow the rules

OK.

Time to get back to the show!
When we last left her, roger was sidling up to the scottian executive. Thinking that the wind was to her back she would be safe. But in walks a clark, making a fearsome racket of ‘why is this?’ and ‘what is that?’. Drat! the scott has caught a scent.
Run away! Run away!

*ProTip: get used to using the term predominant worldview. It will make learning (and more, way more importantly, enjoying our little personality theories. Hundreds of posts have been written on this subject, but real quick: the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the relationship we maintain with the world around us. As in, like, right from before we could even talk. We’re born with the potential to have three, settle on one and, here’s the key: develop our social strategies, styles of interpreting the immediate world (babies at this point, remember?) and practice. In other words our personality type. We’re fond of saying, ‘In terms of the Wakefield Doctrine’s view, we all have the perfect personality type on the basis of the world as we experience it.

1) You can buy Cynthia’s delightfully whimsical coloring book HERE

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

ok… open your books to… you don’t get to go outside until after class etc

Sorry. Wanted to do a Summer School riff this Monday morning, but we woke up tired.

Damn! Metaphorically-speaking could you ask for more a clarklike theme than what’s inherent in that final phrase?

(oh, yeah. thanks for reminding us…anyone out there have a line on an app/site/whatever that will diagram sentences? We remember from elementary school having to diagram sentences on the chalkboard in front of the class. You know, with the slanting lines an shit for adverbs and adjectives. Increasingly finding ourselfs wanting to know what the technical term for things are, like that in the second sentence, ”…but we woke up tired’. Totally think it’s something like: ‘cross-species pre-injunctive phrase’. You know, with Latin sprinkled in like raisins in a breakfast cereal. Even as we typed the original sentence, we could hear one of the nuns (from back in school) say, “Mister clark, I would advise you get you one of them.”

(Full Disclosure: while it is accurate to cite a nun as being an elementary school teacher, we are taking liberties with how she would express herself. That wonderfully peculiar wording is courtesy of a utube channel about getting rid of bees and such. ‘First of all, go ahead and get you some apple juice.” Will try to find it and post it somewhere in this train-wreck of a post)

Damn! Found it! Here’s the link!

oh man! We totally need to let D. Avery and Violet’s Lentz know about these guys. What? Well, no! We’re not suggesting either of them have a pest/hornet problem. It’s just that they’re both, imo, Masters of Patois. They both gots that expert…whatever the term for it (yeah, our vocab is off today) for a special voice. Anyway, have linked them in.

We’re feelin’ kinda guilty about doing a mega-short Weekday post. These are usually reserved for Fridays when we’re done with the imaginary stuff (fiction written expressly for the Six Sentence Story bloghop). What say we just do a link. That way none of our New Readers will feel guilty for not reading everything in this post. lol as we’re sure they will. yeah, we’re looking at you Reelika and Ms. Pie. (well, no. not in a creepy, stalky way. we’re a clark not a roger! lol)

almost forgot! Your extra credit reading here.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 16 Comments

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

Bella. (After Ola but before Una)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created by Lizzi R this grat ‘hop has thrived and endured and, once again, is thriving with new Readers and a new Host (Spoiler Alert!! Grat #4)

Simple in concept, the TToT invites all to Read and Comment and, if so inclined, contribute their own list of Thankfuls. It’s easy and it’s fun and it’s beneficial for those who believe it is better to act on the premise that the world is, with a certain act of will, a positive place. That good (can) be seen to outweigh the bad and the path to leveraging this premise is the (personal) choice to identify, encourage and otherwise nurture those aspects of Life that elicit and inspire the psycho-emotional state of gratitude. Not always easy. Totally worthwhile.

Following is our list of Thankfuls

1) Phyllis (from the Before Time)

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Easy Grat: On behalf of the Hostinae and Host, (Mimi, Misky, Denise, cai, Kristi, Dyanne, Lisa, Knitcat and Andrew) we welcome Frank Hubeny as the newest Host of this here gratitude bloghop here.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Front Meadow status update:

8) Current Landscape Project

Before:

Semi-After:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

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Frídá -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 5, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Let’s start with three predominant worldviews as the ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine are called:

clarks (the Outsider) single statement description: ‘They abhor being the center of attention, however, will not tolerate being ignored.’
scotts (the Predator) causal functionality: ‘I scream, therefore I am’
rogers (the Herd Member) voted by all demographics of life as ‘The most likely to become too self-absorbent.’

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

ProTip: all three characteristic ways one might relate themselves to the world are, in dynamic balance, represents an ideal form of human.

Learn how it is ‘the other two’ relate to the world and you will better be able…wait! wait! Learn more of your own worldview first…really learn it…or as some very perceptive people might advise, accept it, the good with the bad.

Why is this ‘good with the bad’ so important? Because we are talking about the relationship we maintain with the world around us. Emphasis on ‘maintain’. Nothing so simple as hair color, body type, ethnicity or anything other socio-cultural attribute.*

As an additional perspective, the Doctrine is both fun, useful and productive in our efforts to improve our capacity to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

So read and learn the general characteristics of the three types and go out into the world.

If you’re observant, you will spot the scotts first. If you are not, the rogers (by statistical default).

If, however, you’re a clark you will, out of sheer contrariness, look for, and after more time than it should take, spot the clarks in your world. Not easy to do as we are quite serious in our efforts to control the degree to which we are subject to scrutiny. Be careful. The hazard lies in seeing a clark and realizing that you, (we’re talking to clarks now), that you are like that. Maybe not as extreme, but you will find yourself identifying with them. (To your credit, the first thought after the nausea** passes is, “I must find a way to guide this person to the Wakefield Doctrine.’)

Final caveat: if you learn the Doctrine to the degree necessary to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday world, you may find yourself unable to not to the clarks, scotts and rogers around you.

* the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age, culture neutral

** no! not because what you see is bad, but because you see how the rest of the world regards them and want nothing more than to spare them the…whatever you have endured to get to where you are. Which is: a much safer and supportive place with the impossible: the company of Outsiders