Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 16, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

So, what with the wild social adventures of the weekend (well, technically, it was Friday… (and early evening…. (and we were to meet (for the surprise party at 5:00 pm… (yeah, that is kinda the afternoon… ( but the late afternoon… (and the surprise(d) guest didn’t arrive until, like 6:oo (and being cloudy it was semi-dark [go ahead and provide your own closed parenthesiseseses…]

Permit us to 1st coffee this ~~intonemen~~t installment* with a RePrint

it wasn’t my intention to eavesdrop, but there a guy sat, two stools away

May 26, 2010

I was meaning to tell you about the success of the Post that came out Monday but we got side tracked by that “24” thing. (btw, talking with DownSpring#1 right after hitting ‘Publish’, yesterday morning. She say the night before was the Season Finale of that very show. Ain’t synchronicity grand?)

Anyway, we are declaring the Monday Post (…”hey, did anyone else just hear something”… ) a complete success, as the only Readers that wrote a Comment in response to it were scotts. Since the goal was to write for (one of the three specifically) and scotts were my target, then its…”A is for apple, binyons”.

But alas,that is not the topic today. Today the topic is:…”you really want to know how seriously we take this Wakefield Doctrine?”
The photo above on this page…came across it by random, probably a part of an ad for some genealogical service that is so pervasive on the ‘net. Anyway, saw the picture, about to click forward, but then thought came into my brain, “alright, what (or more appropriately, who ) do have here in the family portrait?”
The answer: 3 scotts, 2 rogers and 1 clark.
Even though this Post is supposed to be about rogers, stop at this point, take a minute, look at the photo and pick out the clark. (Hint: no, not him, close, nice guess, but nothim…keep tryin).
(At this point I would ask you to write a Comment, but I don’t think you will. Afraid of being wrong, I hear. I understand…even though you are telling yourself that this blog is funny and maybe this particular Post is all really silly… you are still afraid of looking stupid. I do understand, I realize that you are not afraid of me responding to your Comment with something like: ” Here is a stupid answer”, that is not what you are afraid of. What you know would be awful would be a follow-up Comment such as: “…now here is a good effort…unfortunately missed by this much”. Now that would hurt. So I do not expect any Comment, it is not that important, seeing how I do sort of know what you are thinking… (no, I really do know…) (hey, sorry, don’t care if you believe me or not, just the way it is), go ahead…don’t let the cursor hit you in the ass on your way out! lol)

So rogers are all over this picture (above). Rogers love the family units, or more precisely, they love the idea of tradition and history. The photo shows history and implies history, and the people are the herd. This will be the Wakefield Doctrine lesson for the day. The question is not why the herd, that would be like asking why does the night follow the day, answer: hey, it just does.
The useful question is: if the herd is the most important thing (to a roger) then how does one make a roger want to do things. As we saw in Monday’s Post, there is a way to speak to scotts that will not only be heard by the scott, but will be irresistible. (Damn, not being clear, sorry).
Let’s try this: you have all heard about the supersonic whistles that only dogs can hear, right? Well not only can they hear them when you cannot, but they (the dogs) cannot resist them. Blow on the sucker and Fido is all, “OK OK what? WHat do you Want?! Are we gonna do something? HUH?! HUH? (picture Warner Brothers/Jack Russell-type…hell with that, picture the dog below bouncing 3 feet in the air over and over in front of you..)

…I know…I know and I apologise! How the heck did we get back to those scotts? This was to be a Doctrine lesson on the herd and rogers, instead we are looking at photos of dogs. Pretty damn cute though, no? And sincere. That is what dogs do so well, they are sincere and direct, not an ounce of artifice in their bodies. Now at this point, cat people might say that dogs are kinda simpletons, non-ambitious, not nearly as cool as cats are…well, write a Comment and I might take your opinion into consideration. Back to the scotts, people are drawn to them for the same qualities, the directness and un-complicatedness. Unlike rogers.

I think I have driven around in supermarket cart type circles quite long enough for one Post. If you are a new Reader, check some of the featured Posts or even the Archived Posts (In the “Read ’em and Sleep” pulldown, over to the right there, under the map). That’s the whole magilla, Wakefield Doctrine-wise.

* without doubt funnier and more skilled writers have expressed the total fuckin, civilization-ending cultural Trojan Horse of ‘autocorrect’ by now, but serially, how could even a machine believe we meant to apologize with a song!?!?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 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 bloghop (TToT)

Each week the word goes out that there is a standing invitation to bloggers and other writerly-inclined people to link their list of the 10 (+-) people, places, things and/events that inspired the feeling of gratitude in them. There are no limits or requirements in terms of time or space (of the cited Grats) just the spirit of good intent. Go!!! Bulldogs!!

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Doctrine as a topic of conversation last night. Attended a birthday party for a friend. Among the guests, work-friends of hers I didn’t know. At one point, the guest-of-honor said to the group, “I’ve tried to explain the Wakefield Doctrine to the people at work. not sure if I done it right.” At this point the group goes silent, kinda looking at me. Then someone (from the work friends) said, “You explained it fine. I just don’t see which I am,” and turned her attention on me. (Spoiler Alert: I could see she was a roger). So I let the silence grow and said, “That’s all right. I do.” and said nothing more. (lol)

6) technology (subset: video clips to insert that say better what we’re thinking than is possible given our limited abilites)

7) Other Doctrine-related insights from last night’s social occasion. It wasn’t until this morning. when we were talking about the evening, that I realized there were only two scotts in attendance. And, looking back I realized they sat as far from each other as possible. Damn! How cool is this personality theory of ours. [scotts upon meeting another scott will challenge each other for the purposes of establishing ranking and then divide up the territory (and resident prey lol). Alpha gets first choice, of course.

8) something, something

9) vicarious gratation* MIa with her head in the snow. of course!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word,

vids

(forgive us for lacking the skill to effectively write an intro to this music that follows. We still have the endlessness of the current winter in mind when we thought, ‘the Vienna Young Girl’s Chamber Music Ensemble’ or something. hey it was funny in our heads.)

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…a short, quick Doctrine post, ’cause of a Reader Comment, don’cha know”

February 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

Sometimes New Readers, they be sayin’ ‘Hey, I believe this Doctrine can be fun and useful. And I get that you say ‘Do your Reading’. But there’s like thirty-five hundred of the fricken’ things. How ’bout you give a Reader a break? Like a Clift Notes thing.”

We hear you.

Examples to see the Doctrine (and it’s three personality types: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) are all around you,

The key is to indulge your imagination.

Yesterday, Commenting on this post, Friend of the Doctrine Misky say:

ps: TSA — I am always impressed by their ability to wear self-possessed importance. Goes to show what a uniform does to a person.

Being a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect allow us to preface our remarks on how her Comment is nothing less than a total open book exam on the Doctrine:

“Hey, this personality theory, it’s not for ever one. Not only do you need to enjoy applying your imagination to the everyday world, you need to have the confidence to, as a scott might, ‘just run with it.’ If you don’t get it, we can say with confidence that it’s only because you’re suffering from hypo-clarklike aspect.’

That’s all we care to say.

To today’s topic: Read: ‘TSA‘ (we’ve all been through security check points at airports…or have seen them in a movie or on TV) then… ‘self-possessed importance‘ (now here our correcpondent is being….somewhat charitable). Finally the clincher: ‘Uniform‘.

We are presented with an archtypical illustration of a less admirable manifestation of the rogerian predominant worldview.

Grade your own exams.

Ask question.

(Like we used to say in early Doctrine posts, back in the beginning when our scottian aspect might have shown more clearly, you know, before the ameliorating effects of associating with the likes of Mimi and Cynthia, we’d be sayin’ ‘There are not stupid question, just your questions.”)

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

to continue from yesterday’s Post, lets stick with the basics.

Better yet, let’s answer the question on the minds of 2/3s of Readers* ‘Why go to the trouble of doing all that Reading when we can go buy a book on the Oscar Meyers Briggs Random Letter system or (and this guy we actually did love back in grad school days) William Sheldon‘s ‘Constitutional Psychology’?

One reason: 1) the Doctrine is a fun and effective to understand people and such, more importantly, B) applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, we are better able to appreciate the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Which, quite neatly, takes us back to ‘the Everything Rule’. We all experience reality as it manifests relative to our predominant worldview. There’s a rather long metaphor, (maybe a simile, probably not an analogy), about the three friends standing across the street from a popular restaurant in the middle of the noon rush. Won’t go into it here, but obviously the three are a clark, a scott and a roger. (New Readers! extrapolate what is going through the minds of our friends on the basis of their being: an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member. Write your questions below)

The thing we say about learning the Doctrine is that we strive to be fluent. That is, like any other ‘foreign’ language, the more we practice it, the better we know it, the smoother the ‘translation’ is… the goal of fluency being the capacity to think in the (foreign) language.

as Hamlet says to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy… you wanna know how many things? well, do you? come on!! I know you want to know… just ask me!! Come on.”

What the Bard left out: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) each with their own characteristic personal reality

all right, we’ve said too much already.

* 2/3s is far too charitable a number to designate the percentage of those here, (more than twice), relative to predominant worldviews. the accepted percentages of the three ‘personality types’ of the Doctrine in the general population are: 66% rogers, 10% scotts and 23% clarks

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of habits and repetition: the old is such a sucker for playing dress-up as the new“

February 10, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

~~Regular Readers of this blog are most likely raising eyebrows (surprise-rise of twin hairy suns on the coffee cup horizon) and whispering, ‘Ruh roe’.~~

~~But serially, the work of self-improving ourselfs can be frustrating.~~

~~The catnip of ‘Self-Improvement’ is surely most.~~

Hold on! New topic! (Throw those syllabi down on the ground!!)

‘the Everything Rule’

The Everything Rule states: everyone does everything, at one time or another.

While it’s most prominent value, vis á vis the Wakefield Doctrine, is to remind New Readers that there is only one predominant worldview (‘personality type’) per… err adherent. You don’t get to be a unique, Doctrine-challenging, special class of clark/scott/roger for one reason: a) that’s not how the system is laid out and 2) thanks for identifying yourself as a roger! (lol)

The thing of it is, this position, (of one predominant worldview), illuminates the core principle of our little ‘personality theory’. Our relationship to the world around us creates the personal reality we exist in. And …and! at the heart of the Everything Rule is the notion that we, (each of the three personality types), manifest the common reality according to (this) relationship.

Example: no!! the heck with the time-worn ‘if being a cop is most suited to a scott, what are clarklike and rogerian policemen like?

Instead let’s paraphrase a mid-20th C proverb (Maslow’s Law of the Instrument):

When you’re an Outsider (clark)/Predator (scott)/Herd Member (roger) everything in the world is: a threat of scrutiny/prey or larger predator/the Herd (except for outsiders and predators).