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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 12, 2026 By 5 Comments

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

Our reliable correspondent, Frank, wrote, last week

It is a comfort that I have a perfectly suited-to-reality worldview. If I want to improve myself, is there anything that I need to do? It is hard to improve on perfection. I suspect the answer is no.

thanks, Frank!

Being Monday, it’s only natural to think: RePrint!

…with a slight twist, why the heck not?

(from a post published on December 8 2014)

“…let you in on a little secret: the most difficult part of using the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself is that the key lies in recognizing others of your own worldview, observing how they act and interact and accepting the fact that their actions (and interactions) are simply their best effort to deal with the world as they are experiencing it.  (I just lied. the real  ‘most difficult part’ is to see another person of your worldview and realize that you are living and acting in the world pretty much as they are… for better or worse, ya know?)”

err not really doing it for us, ya know?

Quick, down and dirty ‘splanation…

Each of us have the personality type, (predominant worldview), that is most efficacious in navigating the reality, (personal reality), in which we grew up, developed in and live our daily lifes. The potential to ‘end up’ in any of the three predominant worldviews is inherent in all of us. Ours was that of the Outsider, therefore, just didn’t need to learn to hunt or to keep track of the world’s behaving properly. We could have. But our (personal) reality is as it is.

While it’s tempting to try and shortcut the ‘potential to grow and develop the personality traits of the other two into: ‘Hey! I could be a scott! Fuck you!’ or ‘I’m hate to be the one to break it to you, but your system falls apart in the real world. Is that rogerian enough for you?’

lol

ok. basic premise: open your youngest eyes on a world of a certain character. Proceed to do as every life form does: learn to adapt, develop appropriately to conditions, in other words, practice (SPOILER ALERT!) … practice this style of behaving (and interacting)… for.a.lifetime.

lets end on a positive note: if you’re reading, (and it’s at very least your second visit to the blog), you have the capacity to imagine. More than that, you can conceive of a different perspective on the world around you. (And have fun doing it).

ok, learn the characteristic, the way-of-relating-to-the-world, of ‘the other two’ and there’s a good chance you can imagine how the other person is experiencing the world differently. As real. As valid. Different.

there ya go!

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 10, 2026 By 13 Comments

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

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

According to Un-Reliable Narrator magazine: the TToT is the oldest continuously published bloghop (1887 to present) and ranks highest in the number continents where, provided one has sufficient privacy, it can be accessed. One survey in Women’s Wear Daily  cites a ‘Glad-I-Stumbled-Across-This-Thing (Whatever-It-Is)’ rating of AA...ay! No less an authority than Librarian’s Secret gives it a Three-Fingers-To-Pursed-Lips rating.

So, come and join us and see how people, (presumedly like you), enhance their existence by focusing on the good in Life. For the Wakefield Doctrine, our list this week includes:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) Winter? Well, not yet, however… Phyllis will have a field-day stacking the firewood we had delivered yesterday (no, serially, she’s actually into that kind of activity)

Before

6) See that Section just beyond the Husky-proof(ish) fence in the photo below? Thats the base for the  Working Wood Pile where the individual fire units in Grat #5 will be transported and arranged on a pleasing, stable and gravity-resistant pattern.

7) WIP (Home Project Landscaping Division) de-Summering the Cottage Island

8) something, something

9) The co-hosts/co-hostinae, respectively: Frank, Andrew, Denise, Misky, cai, Knitcat, Dyanne, Kristi, Lisa and, as always, Mimi

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 9, 2026 By 6 Comments

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

Let’s wrap up the week with a second Six and at the same time tie down the most productive insights from our series on personal reality.

Thanks out to Frank and Misky, Cynthia and, as always, Mimi for their Commentation this week that served to keep us focused(ish) on the very subjective topic of personal reality and the Wakefield Doctrine.

The notion of reality being personal, while not original to these pages, has been a linchpin to the learning and application of the principles supporting the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Call it an aid to the deployment of imagination (in a well-stirred disbelief suspension).

We began with a proposal of the role (and function) of (a) personal reality.

Then a proposed encounter of the three predominant worldviews and asked of the Reader to imagine how each experienced the scenario.

Finally, a suggestion (from your Curator) of the scene before each of the three.

And, now today, in conclusion:

For the purposes of maximum enjoyment of the insights afforded by the Doctrine’s three ‘personality types’ and, secondarily, to provide some intellectual rigor (lol) to our modest alternative perspective, we will say:

you know how we describe the perfect personality type as being the best compensation for/ strategy to succeed in a social environment, that we all, as very young people, develop in response/reaction/reconciliation to being an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member?
if you’re feeling confident in your ability to maintain your bearings, consider this: for the child who has the relationship with the world around them we call Outsider, the world (and the people who make it up) is an Outsider’s world. The character of this world isn’t imposed by our young human… the people view him/her as an Outsider (or in Doctrine parlance, ‘a blue monkey’)… actively, without precondition. As is only natural. For the split second your imagination allows you, think of a personal reality encompassing reality.. The world is an Outsider(‘s) world. (As with Predators (scotts) and Herd Members (rogers).)

Cool right?

(ok…a little horrify. but hey, we’re all past that stage and have our perfectly (suited to reality) worldviews all kinds of practiced and such, to the point that we hardly even have to think of it.)

…much

 

 

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Bendseday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 7, 2026 By 6 Comments

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

Now’s the tricky part.

In yesterday’s post you read about three people contemplating having lunch (together) in a crowded restaurant.

The easy part: by virtue of being familiar with the character (and characteristics) of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, one is able to extrapolate their individual responses to the prospect of lunch:

  • the clark is an Outsider. not a part of, not even a necessary, if not always pleasant, aspect of the cycle of life (hint: rhymes with scott), ‘Outsider’ as in apart from. if you do not appreciate how that translates on a social interaction matrix… off to Remedial Doctrine class with you!
  • the scott is a Predator. what characterizes Predators in the most economical use of words? chase/be chased action-equals-life. Fun Doctrine insight: the menu may be pasted to the window of the restaurant, but it’s also standing on full, live-action display (and, yes, there will be other Predators pretending to be du jour), all the better to start the game of life
  • the roger as an individual is the promise of the Herd, as a Member, (of the Herd), the justification of all they collectively stand for: ‘take, eat, this is my worldview’. there is no sadness in sacrifice if it is part of the greater whole

…now, the hard part!

lol

no, wait! lets save that for Friday. We gots to work on our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

we suspect you, the Reader, might appreciate a little time to assimilate and ruminate on the overt implications of our little illustration of the real in personal reality, vis á vis the Wakefield Doctrine. To this end, allow us to pose some potentially enlightening questions. (New Readers who are clarks? You can skip this following section. Unless, of course, you want to indulge in the vicarious sense of belonging as you answer the questions for yourself.)

  • if you ‘wake up’* to the fact that you are an Outsider, how do you feel?
  • well, yeah, you’re kinda busy trying to figure out what they, (everyone but you), seems to know that you do not
  • ok… it’s clearly a secret that the others have forgotten they know… don’t assume otherwise. Even an Outsider has instincts for self-preservation and bugging everyone around you about this matter is surely not a good idea.
  • decide to ‘pass’ and get to work finding the thing they know, the information in whatever class in ‘Being a Part Off’ you unwisely played hooky from, thanks goodness intelligence is so not huge on peer comparison at an early age (at least among peers) (ish)

*no, roger. stop. no point or need to seize on the wake up. we all become the personality types we are because we deal with the world as we experience it as little baby children. our attempts to cope and our strategies to survive and thrive is in direct relationship to the personal reality we find ourselfs in.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 6, 2026 By 12 Comments

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

Part Tue in our impromptu series, ‘How Real is Personal Reality, Really?”

We once came up with a scenario involving a clark, a scott and roger that, grounded in the ‘real’ world, served as an illustration of what we mean by personal reality.

Can’t find it among posts in the archives.

Guess we’re just gonna have to write it again.

(Yeah, who was that who muttered, “Good Luck Finding the Original Author”?  Extra credit to that Reader! But that’s an entirely different post)

Picture a large town/small city. Large enough for sidewalks and fire hydrants but small enough for there not being a classroom science film strip: Blood, your body’s superhighway’… moderate traffic with maybe 30 percent available parking on the street where our scene takes place.

Our three Illustratinum* are standing on the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street from a restaurant. The restaurant is part of a city block, meaning no parking lot in front of it, simply a row of large, plate glass windows in the wall that runs along the sidewalk. Until, that is, the last third of the facade. The entrance is set back from the sidewalk, creating something of an alcove. There is a line of people waiting to get in. From where the next-to-enter patron is standing (the line’s final order created by stanchions with red velvet ropes strung between), it continues along the sidewalk at least twenty-three people in length. Some of the people are reading the Day’s Menu, (pasted to the inside of one of the plate glass windows), others are talking and a handful are simply waiting for the social peristalsis to bring them to their desired goal. Lunch in a popular restaurant.

Our MCs: a clark (Outsider), a scott (Predator) and a roger (Herd Member) are standing, shoulder-to-shoulder, facing the restaurant and the line of would-be diners.

All of this is to set up the question (the answer being the proof) of ‘What is Personal Reality and Is It (really) Real?’

Certain presumptions about our scene: all three agreed to meet for lunch, the choice of restaurant and the time.***

The question, based on a good understanding of the three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) of the Wakefield Doctrine:

  1. what is the clark thinking
  2. what does the scott want to do
  3. how does the roger feel about everything (starting with the long line)

One hint:

  • clarks be thinking, ‘Shit.. any chance to get these two jamokes to accept Burger King as a substitute venue, if not, how about arranging for the fire alarm to be tripped’
  • scotts is way, way smiling at the prospect of a hunt (think wildebeest, gazelle and flock of overweight chickens having a convention), zeroing in on the weakest (read:uncertain and hopeful) person among those on the sidewalk for the first attempt cut in line
  • rogers beaming, Life is surely good and his/her role here and now as the center of most wonderful, spontaneous Herd is assured, can’t wait to share the joy with all the people who turned out for his/her arrival

There ya go!

 

*faux1 Latin for the three characters who represent the principle being illustrated

1) French for ‘come on! you can get it from the context’, Readers!**

**credit for the line goes to the writers of ‘The Good Place’ Tahani to the group about some British idiom

*** total extra credit to any thought balloons rising focused on ‘agreed’? ‘choice’? and ‘time’? lol

 

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