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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

(I’ve called you all here on a matter of grave concern…..lol)

Let’s do a ‘This is a football‘ post.

Thanks, Vince. Love the work with the collegiate-commercial complex and, of course, the shoring up the patriarchy behind most institutions.

We do not come here to praise football, but to bury it under a pile of rogers.

ok. Monday morning now.

Sticking(ish) with the theme, lets see how we wrote it eleven years ago (?!?!#^?? eleven. years. ago!)

the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the people in our lives, that can, when properly applied, lead to understanding them in ‘additional ways’. By ‘additional ways’, we mean… ‘what am I doing that is an integral aspect in how they are acting?

(…. “Ladies and Gentleman this is ‘an inflated leather spindle torus’” sorry, lol… I was trying to write ‘the speech’, but thought about the ‘setup’…post game speech… locker room… various states of dress…demographics of the current readership…. me standing on a bench (in that locker room)….lol) wait! wait! let me try again.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective. It’s a way to see the world, it’s a way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives. It’s not an Answer, it’s a Question. And…. (hey!! Val!! please!!! no leaning out the window and shouting at the people in the CVS parking lot!!! come on! they’re on serious, old person/sick person business!! thank you. ) the Question is: ‘how does my spouse/the girl at the 7/11, / the Teacher who is shaping my 7 year old’s life/ the people I read about in the news… how do they appear to be ‘relating themselves to the world around them’?’ The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we all live in a personal reality (aka worldview) that is characterized as (one) of the following:

live as ‘the Outsider’ (clarks) always apart from, different, trying to understand what it is they don’t understand, trapped by the belief that it is about knowledge

the world of the Predator (scotts) seemingly confident (always looking for threats and opportunity), active and impulsive running into doors as often as gallantly opening them, protective and paranoid

the life of the Herd Member (rogers) self-assured, as the world of the roger is one that is quantifiable/(and limited), knowable/(and ignorable) ordered and simple… searching only for ‘the Right Way’/ missing the enjoyment of the un-expected and strange

What the Wakefield Doctrine refers to as ‘personality types’ is simply the skill set we develop in order to successfully cope with the reality that we find ourselves growing up in and living our lives in … (‘no Kimberly… we can’t stop for donuts…. we have to drive to Galilee next…. yes, Lisa I will try to walk on the water… very funny’). So what we are saying with the Doctrine is this: understand the three worldviews, infer how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them and they will do the rest. No, I’m serious! Ask anyone! Once you start to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, they will ‘act the part’ to a degree that is sometimes a little scary. But fun.. The goal of all of this is: to try to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

It takes imagination. It takes the kind of curious mind that not only is capable of, but enjoys imagining that a person is a Predator (figuratively) or creative perfectionist or… or even the person who is ever the Outsider, but always manages to be a part of…secretly, of course!

…ok everyone out! we’re back.

No, they’re not.

Back ‘then’, that is. They are long distant in the Before Time.

Let’s wrap this up.

The Wakefield Doctrine, (besides being a perspective), is a tool and an amusement, an insight and a diversion. This because, at the core of the Doctrine, at the heart of everyone’s favorite personality theory, is the belief that all reality, on a basic and not overly-grand level, is personal. A view that no more diminishes the common sensibility of ‘reality’ than reading Shakespeare makes one the Bard.

ya know?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 4, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

The beauty part of this here Grat bloghop here is that the Rules (ten things?) are suggested for the sake, (and benefit), of a certain consistency.* It allows ‘new’ participants and old ‘participants’ to relax and write in a familiar environment. Whereupon we can totally mix things up with unbridled creativity (we’re looking at you, cai! lol) So write whatever you care to and try to stay in the Key of Gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) speaking of the Wakefield Doctrine. encountered a great illustration of a person’s secondary aspect having a clear (and beneficial) effect and influence on a person, i.e. Phyllis. She maintains that she relates herself to the world around her as does a Herd Member, making her, in the more informal parlance of those who versed in the Doctrine, a roger. She does, however, have a significant clarklike secondary aspect. As a roger she knows how things are properly (and consistently) done, aka the Right Way. (a clark, less so lol). Buying a holiday floral arrangement the other day, she came home with:

…given the clarklike leanings of most Readers of this here bloghop here, we will say one word: ‘Audrey Junior’ and leave it at that. (It takes a little extra effort but the original film by Roger Corman can be found. Here’s the IMDb link to help.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) reasonable chance that will we not have a major snowstorm in the near-term future

7) Before and After!! (Grat: to simply be able to rake the leaves) Our resident pitcha maven, Misky might have a pointer or two on sharpening up the …focus

Before

After

8) weather this weekend appears to favor our finishing the pond damn repair project this weekend. the schedule is critical as the ground is warming and once certain lifeforms manage to put on their six or eight shoes and socks and venture out, we need to be long-gone. (Hey! this allows an example of a Hypo- Grat** We leave of glasses in the house!! lol the world subsequently becomes a little indistinct… which is entirely the point!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* the full quote, Mr. Emerson, if you would: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines…” from ‘Self-Reliance‘

** a feature we daresay no other Gratitude bloghops have… the citing of bad people, places, things and events provided the positive outcome is cited (for better explanation check in with our resident expert, Mimi)

music vids Hey! theme this week? instrumentals in which the style or tone of the guitarist is immediately recognizable

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Remedial Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 1, 2026 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

Hey! Here’s an unexpected opportunity!

We enjoyed the comments of Readers of yesterday’s Post.

(wait for it… need to context this before we commit to a topic today… ok, see the Comments at the bottom of this post. as PediaLibria*)

Given how we were the ones to go with the Teacher/Class scenario, the only reasonable approach with today’s post is to go with ‘the Everything Rule’: occupation/avocation/profession of teacher.

Damn!

We all got an ‘F’ on (our writing/responses) to yesterday’s Post.

Full Disclosure: Had not anticipated our doing such a poor job of presenting the one thing… the one thing, that ever one focus’d on to address in their Comments. What we, your Curator, must now come to grips with is… our reaction to this turn of events. (clarks reading this will, no doubt be typety-typling… “Now don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s only one post.” (or scotts) “Hey! Chill out. It’s only one fuckin’ post among, what 18? lol ok 3,000… but who’s counting?” (or) (rogers) “Hate to tell you this, but it’s not that big a deal. You’re no different than the rest of us. We’ll forgive you.”

ok! direct response: One of the miracles/gifts of the Wakefield Doctrine, (vis á vis being a clark) is that, when it comes to the normal self-consciousness reaction to public failure, (‘we all got an F’) from the first post of this blog, we were been given a pass. (In the words of very early Doctrine posts: ‘Bad post? Write another one. Bury that sucker’)

That said, we totally value/appreciate our correspondent’s time, effort and participation. No matter what.

This occupation per the Everything Rule: clarklike teachers? kindergarten up to mid-elementary/college; scottian teachers? high school phys.ed./shop/vice principle and rogerian teachers: junior high/high school

As to our poorly set-up question yesterday, the one involving addition and such? We suspect that a better way to frame the question would be: 2+2=? Properly done it will distinguish a clark from a roger:

‘What’s two plus two?

scott: (laughing) “You fuckin’ clarks“
roger: “Four!”
clark: “In what context?”

ok recess, binyons

* PediaLibria (Lat. tarsus informalus )

cai:Thank you for giving me a guest appearance.
I meant I have to search for my herd who understand the basics of outbound linking and receiving external links.
Like you mentioned before, anyone has a mix of all three personality traits. I tried to appeal to a trait in there who can take a fancy to a method. :)
I understand the message. For a short time, I was dealing with some realtime ruckus in my corner of woods. Hopefully I can resume reading & commenting again.
Mimi: Two-two, of course. ;)
Misky: Depends. If it’s 2 drops of water plus 2 drops of water then it equals 1 puddle.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 31, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Good Morning, class.

New Readers? Please open your, ‘Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine’ booklets that you received at orientation and read quietly to yourselfs.

Today’s post is very much AP Doctrine.

A topic, hell, a thesis has been suggested by our Friend cai. Her Comment:

Rogers and Scotts are wary of bloggers trying to promote bloghops. I have to search for my herd.

Thanks! cai

This Comment embodies a number of opportunities to advance our understanding and subsequent practice (of) the additional perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up) that is the Wakefield Doctrine.

where to begin….where to begin…

What we believe we know about our correspondent is their goals/methods to solve a problem using the Doctrine:

First cai feels she is a roger (“I have to search for my herd”) ok, nothing(ish) wrong with being a roger. (lol)

In the spirit of our Herd Member friends, lets get all bullet-point on this bad boy/girl

first, though, one of the original ‘Rules’ of the Wakefield Doctrine: you are the only true authority for designating your predominant worldview. no one can compel another to accept an assignment of (one of) the three personality types. that said, it is common practice to name others for the purposes of education, illustration and edification. these people, usually celebrities, are not in the room at the time
we accept cai’s self-designation
the unspoken challenge here is huge! this Comment/Question/Statement of Personal Reality is in writing. In a very real sense that makes it simpler, if not easier, to parse
everyone! take out your three phrase books (“I think they’re speaking a language I don’t understand” and “What the fucks the matter with these jamokes?!! oh, yeah I get it… sure, I know that word!! This is fun!” and “What’s wrong with these people? Wait. A. Minute. They think their bunch of words is a language. First thing is organize the nouns and verbs and participles. Then we can help them understand the Right way to speak!“)
ok… this horse (Jument, Equus, Caballo. 馬) is totally beaten into the ground
lets leave off with a few Doctrine tools for determining predominant worldviews… nah, lets go with our single most favorite and efficacious one

Ask the person the following question. Note: this can be done in writing or in person. The latter is preferable as you can see their reaction in real-time and know if’n they’re trying to game the system. The former, (in writing), is still useful but requires a higher level of Doctrine understanding. Their written response will tell us what they really think/do/feel. In fact, when dealing with communicating through a Comment/Reply format there is a single insight that will always indicate a roger on the other side of the interaction. Being way, way advanced a Doctrine insight/tool, it is available only by email. Not as a Comment/Reply

The Question:

How much is two plus two?

Answer key in the first Comment here (later) today.

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 30, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Slow start to the week. Let’s ~~employ~~ deploy some rhetorical caffeine, i.e. a RePrint post.

(We do, in fact, have several topics on the back-burner, courtesy of our various friends, Readers, students of and writers of note.)

but… (an old science fiction writer, who’s name escapes us…. sorry, how lazy of us! this is the fricken internet! (Internet Motto: “Lots of free diversions while the end of civilization is being completed! What do you mean. ‘Not So Funny’?)

While we’re on the topic of clarks… there’s a movie we recommend to clarks (and scotts and rogers, provided their secondary clarklike aspect is way strong): ‘Love Me‘ All we’ll say is, ‘Damn!’

ok! found the author Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) the story: ‘The Proud Robot’. (thanks out to James Wallace Harris at ‘Classics of Science Fiction‘

Well, we’re a bit more on a tool-fabricating-level of sentience for the day… but since the post title does reference a RePrint, far be it from us to leave ya hangin’.

the Wakefield Doctrine: ‘you’re already practicing the core Principles, you might as well get something for all your efforts’ (…yeah, even some fun!)

March 25, 2013

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

The reason we say,  you’re already practicing the Principles is that, as a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine does not start with a person answering questions, filling out a survey or questionnaire, reporting likes and dislikes, lying about weaknesses and strengths, exaggerating the things others like and hate about us. No. In a funny, you-guys-really-are-weird kind of way the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t really care what the individual thinks their personality (type) should or could or might be. Nope. This here personality theory here does not need to know that.
…as a matter of fact! You don’t even need to involve the person that you are about to know (better, in a way) than they know themselves. You see, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

But I’m getting ahead of us. We’ll come back to this ‘you mean I can know my boyfriend’s, my Teacher’s, my wife’s, my boss’s, my kid’s personality types and I don’t need to ask them to help?’ in just about a paragraph. First, the Principles that the Title of today’s Post says you are already practicing.

The Wakefield Doctrine is all about how a person relates themselves to the world around them. Notice the odd wording, I did not say, ‘how a person relates to the world‘. Because that’s only one dimension, in a sense a description of what happens as the person goes about their life. We say, ‘how the person relates themselves to the world around them’ because it is not simply a choice (about how to act, what to do, how to feel about it), it is reality. What we refer to as a worldview.
In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all live in a personal reality, aka our worldview. This means that my reality is different from yours. No, nothing weird… no screaming vegetables, nothing shooting across the sky, no flying without the help of technology, but different nonetheless. And it is the way our worldviews differ that we find the value and utility in our personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience the world from one of three ‘perspectives’, living in one of three worldviews, if you will. And what most people call ‘personality types’, we know as the appropriate behavior, given the world that a person finds themselves experiencing. (Remember! personal reality as in ‘real’ and ‘reality’ not  “just ’cause you felt like it, or I think I will choose to act like this, she deserves it….”) The three characteristic worldviews are:

the reality of the Outsider (clarks) not ‘because’, not ‘well, you should speak up more’, and definitely not ‘well if you didn’t act so weird, people would get to know you and you would have an easier time in life’ this reality is simply one in which you are here and ‘the world’ is out there. (For our clarklike Readers this last statement is sufficient, the rogers and the scotts might nod and look understanding, but will never get it)

the world of the Predator (scotts) of the three personality types, scotts can be the easiet to deal with- they are energetic and active, enthusiastic and mercurial helpful and very dangerous… the saying here is: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’. scotts are the life of the party and the reason the police get called, scotts are your best friend until someone who they look up to shows up and then your life will be miserable , scotts are the neighbor who will lend you anything in his garage and help build your deck without asking and she is the neighbor with the well-behaved kids (at least they are when she is around, when she is not….ayiieee!), scotts are fun and tiring, loyal and seductive you have at least one scottian friend

the world as seen by a member of the Herd (rogers) are the reason we have civilization and they are the reason we have repressive societies. they are the personality type that lives in a world of emotion… not just moods and feelings, but where clarks think things and scotts act out, rogers manipulate emotion, in themselves and in the people around them. Ever encounter someone who makes you feel comfortable talking? ...roger  know anyone at work who is always in the center of things and knows all about everyone?… roger  ever find your husband/wife…boyfriend/girlfriend acting like they had no idea that you had a life outside the relationship? lol roger  there is a saying around here: without rogers humanity would still be out on the savannah with the scotts roaming in packs, feeding on the giant herds of rogers while the clarks dart among the low underbrush in a desperate attempt to stay alive long enough to invent opposable thumbs

These three worldviews are the ‘core principles’ of the Doctrine that you are already practicing.

Back to the Practical Value….and how you don’t need to involve the ‘other person’ and how this Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

Today. Observe the people in your life. Infer which of the three worldviews they appear to be acting from, test this against the descriptions of each of the three personality types that you will find throughout this blog. Once you know which the other person is, you will know why they are doing the things that they are and because you know this, you will have the choice of how you would respond, how you feel about what they do, how to shape the message if you need to get them to do what you want. In other words, you will have more freedom of choice than they do.