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W Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 25, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

We went searching for a RePrint post. We found one. It looked different. We felt a vacuum-breath of fear*. Mostly ’cause one of our trusted online systems decided to upgrade and improve their security so we had to re-establish our credentials.

The fear?

Two words: scrutiny.

Hey! yeah, last week we did a couple of clarks vs scotts vs rogers experience lists… lets do ‘fundamental, existenial fears’.

clarks fear scrutiny, scotts fear irrelevance and rogers fear shunning (by the Herd)

well that was kind of…brief

remind us Friday to respond to Mimi and Misky’s recent comments.

thats un savoureux petit Doctrine, miam miam

January 21, 2011

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

Lets talk.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a ‘theory of personality’ the same way that your grandmother or mother (or wife or husband) is a chef. What they can do is produce food that you and your family look forward to eating and of course, everyone enjoys and benefits from their efforts both as food and (as) a social occasion. Not only that, your husband or wife or boyfriend or grandmother uses most of the same tools and ingredients and equipment that Le Cordon Bleu chef will use. Both will work with food in a kitchen environment that is essentially the same and (all) produce meals that are good and good for you, the only difference:

your grandmother will never be on television, your mom will never write a book that will be found in bookstores, your wife or your husband will never have a meal named after them (on the menu of a restaurant).

Who is the better cook?

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

Do not think that we are apologizing for our grandmothers or our lack of empirical date (supporting this here theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, here). We are not. But just because the techniques and tricks and recipes of your “family chef” have certain limitations, does not preclude us from being determined to try and rise above the confines of the ‘novelty blog’ category with the Wakefield Doctrine. Point in fact, it is the goal of all involved with this blogsite to take what we have learned about human personality and behavior and, with no small amount of chutzpah, put it in front of as many people as possible. Our very immodest intent is quite simply to get people to see the world through the lens of our little Doctrine.

There is no “WHY?” question here. (The only possible answer would be, “Why not?”) To take that approach would have the fault of being un-necessarily modest. Our intent is, with all of the means available to us, presenting/promoting/publicising/pushing the Wakefield Doctrine in order to have some effect on the world, if only 30 or 40 people worth. Maybe more than that, (perhaps 300 or 400) people will read about this thing and find the same usefulness that we do and these people will benefit from having come to this blog and learned about our ‘theory or personality’.
But hey, everyone starts out as someone’s son/husband/brother/grandson/girlfriend/yeah,they used to live right down the street before they turned into a celebrity or an authority or a mover or a shaker (the Hollywood variety not the Pennsylvania type).
Take Martha Stewart (…”please”) she was someones mother at a point in time prior to becoming a valued NYSE listed commodity…might have been your mother, but probably not. She was Alexis’s mother

Be that as it may. Lets take a quick look at our “cookbook” so that our more credential-dependent Readers can continue to enjoy this blog and still get something useful from your visit today.

clarks: quiet but always manage to get noticed, introspective but aggressive, creative and intellectual yet capable of blindingly stupid stubbornness when they believe they have an understanding of the situation;
scotts: free-spirited extroverts who feed on the discomfort of others, natural leaders who inspire confidence and will spring into action regardless of how ill-conceived the action or ill-prepared for the unexpected they might be;
rogers: precise and exact and they would have invented OCD (if it had not already existed), sociable, likable and prone to extreme prejudice, with the right tools they will build the infrastructure of the civilized world just so they will have people to pass judgement on

Thats a pretty basic set of ‘recipes’ or down-home culinary technique, isn’t it?
Don’t you think your grandmom had fun teaching your mother to cook on cold winter evenings? The food at your house? doesn’t it taste as good as the food you could learn to prepare by spending 5 years in a culinary school? No? You think the chef, by virtue of all their formal training is better off?

*hey, if no one else has already coined this expression** the Doctrine claims it this morning,

**rogers don’t count without verifiable objective proof of prior use

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

we don’t normally do a ‘caption this’…but as a result of a search for images: Socratic Method’ is this image. Seriously, who doesn’t want to magic marker the figure at the far-right, “Jesus Christ… enough with the ‘Let me ask you this…”

so, thanks again to the Comment section for a topic for the ‘mildest day of the (work)week’, Tuesday.

Specifically, Mimi for her Comment on yesterday’s Post:

It’s not a matter of wanting to change, or be like others, it’s a matter of being able to relate to them on their terms when needed, and it’s needed a lot.

All kidding aside, our Friend of the Doctrine points to the linchpin of the process of using the Doctrine as a tool, as opposed to a party trick.

New Reader Warning: The following is totally AP Doctrine Theory and Practice. Which means: check your work. You’ll be expected to grade your own test. More critically, and this applies to the implication of Point 2 below, while it is true that when it comes to the Wakefield Doctrine, ‘you can’t get it wrong’…. you totally can diminish the efficacy and value of it as a tool for your ownself.

Two things: three people? potentially three personal realities. three realities? three different manifestations of the same experience. three manifestations? three different forms of the message.

Fine.

But…but!! Being curated by a clark, one thing jumps out at us: a) we all have access to a trilingual dictionary and, with effort, practice and diligence can learn the native language of ‘the other two’ and; 2) if we are trying to translate what we hear them say into our native language, we are, perforce, confronted with the opportunity to look objectively at what ‘we think we mean.’ To/of thine ownself be learnin’

ten four, eleanor

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 23, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

So, sure, let’s address the matter of self-improving oneself with the aid the Wakefield Doctrine.

On third thought, what say we read words that were, at the time, perfectly good words to convey the notion that since we have the potential to experience the world in one of three ways, i.e. as an Outsider (clark), Predator (scott) or Herd Member (roger), we already know the answer.

(Extra credit to the clark who just said, “Well, duh.”)

(Extra, extra credit to the clarks who turned to the other Readers and, laughing said, “You’re not fooled, right? This is an outdated answer to the question of self-improving ourselfs. It’s not a ‘potential to experience the world (a certain way)’, it’s the willingness to change our fricken’ relationship to the world around us.’)

(Being a wise, and, we might add, very definitely not unreliable Narrator, we hasten to add… “Sure! Go get in ever one’s face and be all aggressive and such, like any good scott would. But don’t forget the simple fact: they have practiced all they lives to be a Predator. After all, anyone one with the money and the space in their homes can buy a Marshall stack and a Strat and try and play some Hendrix….” We will not insult the putative intelligence of our Readers by going into an explicit description of the outcome of this endeavor.)

Are we saying, ‘Don’t bother, you can never be an effective (fill in the blank for one of the other two relationships with the world around you)?

Kinda

But…but!! The whole thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is, first and foremost, to encourage and nurture acceptance of the notion that all reality is personal. And if there is any lesson every pre-adolescent child learns and almost always forgets: two of (this pre-adolescent child’s friends) see and live in the world different from the one they were bequeathed by the parents and family unit.

Sorry, had to get a little ’round about in that last section. It’s ok, Readers, you can look on the answer sheets of your neighbor. The one not trying to hide their answers and the one not holding them up… the clarks.

awright! dodged another guilt round in the live action, role-play call Real Life.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 21, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Foundered by Lizzi R in 1974 it remains the single most frequented grat blog in the ‘sphere. Hailed by some as the finest example of a grat blog that doesn’t smother the participants in dollies, lace and a freshman coed’s miasma of patchouli incense. Rather, the participants are encouraged to let their imagination and creativity off-leash for at least ten Grat Items. The Founder would’ve approved.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) work (or back in the day when things were very busy) properties such as the one at the top of the post. an old, abandoned cottage on a hillside overlooking a lake in Connecticut that brings back memories…sure, why not? Here’s another photo of the same property

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) proximity of ocean (well, technically Rhode Island Sound is what is seen in the photo below)

7) fity degrees in temperature all except the most sheltered and secret snow has melted into the ground.

8) something, something

9) clean windows. (part 1… a winter of using a wood stove to supplement central heat is easy on the budget, not so much on the transparency of glass.) the real challenge is in technique… a lot of the windows are in direct sunlight…wait, what are we saying??!! here’s a thousand words (including a before after)… damn! hold on! need to wait until the sun moves over to that side… photos at 3:30

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Friday Wrap-up -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 20, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Good week of Practical Application Doctrine posts, no?

In Monday’s post we recall¹ that clarks are born old. The takeaway being: ‘it’s ok to relax and give yourself a break from the stress, but being old is not the worst thing’. (Ask any young scott in troubke for driving their initials into the grass of the high school football field or answering the questions to a weekly test she had not a clue the answers were…in lipstick). We’re just saying, the older (i.e. accrued birthdays) we clarks get, the less inclined we tend to indulge in frivolity (for frivolity’s sake and fun, too. you remember fun, right?)²
Tuesday: a fun little RePrint on the topic of scotts.³

Wednesday’s post, well, you see the photo at the top? the three people? It is said, that with a good enough heart and the willingness to throw off the chains of reason, why-can’t-you-just-be-not-so-strange-for-once and/or be reasonable, you could re-create the whole of the Wakefield Doctrine on the basis of the image alone.

No! Really! We believe that and if you’re still reading, you do as well (ok, maybe not stand up and say it, but there is a little, quiet(ish) voice in your head saying, ‘There is something so familiar about those three.”

So, here’s the thing. With a certain degree of discretion, tell ever one to come here and read the Wakefield Doctrine. (Not such a wild suggestion, given that Readers are clarks or scotts and rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspect. Discretion is kinda mostly all of valor.

1. the thing about this Wakefield Doctrine? It allows that, while the relationship we maintain with the world around us designates our ‘personality type’, there is nothing inherent in the world of one personal reality and not the others. What that means is that when, as so often we do, look to theories and understandings of personality to change, develop and improve the quality of our ‘tenure’ we have nothing to learn.

…but everything to remember, aka accept

2. current post excepted

3. yes, in the back, Miss M? Well, not to spoil it for your classmates, but no, we don’t think we’re not being fair…scotts are, well, just easier to write about.