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April 16, 2025 By 3 Comments

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

Seeing how we’re on such a self-educating ourselfs kick this week, lets get all Miller Analogy on this bad boy:

a clark is to Outsider as a

a scott is to: Predator/Tasmanian Devil/accidental amphetamine ingestion/all of the above

a roger is to: Herd Member/Obsessive-compulsive CPA/the Rain Man (character) played by David Spader (actor)

ok, enough frivolity.

We were in a conversation the other day about the Doctrine. (Yeah, like those stories you used to hear from the first generation immigrant kid in your elementary school. How their parents spoke the language of the old country but insisted they speak only the anglaise at home.) But in reverse. Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia can tell you about Doctrine-family-dinner-conversations can be.

New Readers! (and Cai) ProTip: When we first encounter the Wakefield Doctrine (and it’s three personality types), first (and most fun) step it to learn the characteristics of clarks, scotts and rogers. However this can lead to confusing the characteristics with the personal reality(s). The Doctrine is very much not about fitting categories of personal traits and such. You know (if you’re old enough) the Sunday Supplement/section of the magazine after the ‘cont’d from’ but before the back-cover. (Earn $$$ while you Sleep!!  Passive Income from the Internet. Too Slowwww? New Super-charged system FREE!)  “Honey? I found a personalty survey and it has you to a ‘T’ Come on, take the Quiz.”

Well, the Doctrine, once you have the basics down, is easier than that! We’re not concerned with traits and foibles, interests and obsession, tropisms and phobias. We don’t even care if you take the test. (Which we actually have one…of. lol on the Landing Page. Right in the Middle. Courtesy of being ‘convinced’ by Christine to create a quiz. Back in the day.)

This is the cool thing about the Doctrine. We’re concerned more with the character of the personal reality the person lives in. More precisely, the (personal reality) world that they grew up and developed in. What we focus on? The individual’s relationship to the world.

You grow up in the reality of the Outsider, knowing you are different, suspecting there’s something wrong, determined to discover what everyone else already knows? Guess what? You’re a clark. (etc with the other two). The neat thing is we can say, much to the laughter and delight of Readers (who’ve done their homework lol) that you… that’s right ‘YOU’ have a ‘perfect’ personality type. (Some restrictions and conditions may apply. Read the fine print).

So, when wondering about the other person, (or ourselfs), ask this very simple question: Which of the three relationships do they/I seem to have with the werld.

Back to our original theme, ‘the Everything Rule’. The preferred terminology is ‘manifest’ e.g. How does the quality of ‘curiosity manifest in the three personality types?

curiosity is for

  • clarks: a drive to learn the unknown, the search for (meaning/happiness/becoming) in order to become a ‘real’ person
  • scotts: why not? life is not about practicing the skills of the hunter, life is about being the hunter
  • rogers: an affirmation of the Rightness of the world

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 12, 2025 By 5 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Established in 1975 as a mimeographic-newsletter, this bloghop is the simplest form of spiritualism available without a purple-heart from a parochial education or a graduate degree in coed college dorm with a focus on blacklight reflection and macramé deconstructionism.

Following is the list of grats we would offer, available for identification purposes and general R&R.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) hypo-grats. (In two-parts) Hypo-grats are a valid experience qualifying for inclusion in one’s TToT list. It is, imo, a perspective that helps our little ‘hop stand out in an addmittedly crowded, (if not somewhat… ‘we-get-it-you’ve-memorized-your-multiplication-tables-but-math-is-not-rote sorta way), field of Gratitude Bloghops. Be that as it may, a hypograt is a person, place, thing or event that would, on first blush, appear to be a bad thing, something you’d just as soon forget and move on from. But, and here we would defer to a certain hostinae an opportunity presents itself. To us all.

7) (hypo-grats cont’d) Example:

We decided to sign up for free seminar at a local liberry: ‘Self-Publishing and Making a Career Writing Fiction’. First session was Tuesday past. Unsurprisingly, the moderator did the ‘Lets go around the table and introduce ourselves’ thing. Small group, the Librarian and three young women. We spoke last, (yeah, shocker that). The preceding three writers-to-be: opened with the anticipated: “I’ve been writing since I was 6yo/ even as a little girl I wrote stories/I can barely remember…”

When it got around to us we said, “I’ve been writing since 2009. For some reason, at that time, I found myself with a blog about a personality theory with three types, it’s called the Wakefield Doctrine. As part of trying to share it with as many people as possible I got involved with various online platforms like the Facebook and such. Almost immediately the thought came to me, “Shit! These people around me, they really write good. So I began to write as much as a I could.”

8) forbidden and surely toxic scents, smells and odors:

  • mimeograph ink
  • airplane glue (way before many Reader’s time it was available in the model car section of the drugstore (ikr?)
  • diesel fumes (the ‘hello, welcome back! no, you’re not too old’ when walking the docks lined with commercial fishing boats)
  • magic marker smells (still legal, right? toll of surviving diminished olfactory sense)
  • one’s own socks (for a certain length of time) (come on, we won’t call you out in the Comments)
  • rotting fish …and last and most challenging!
  • the smell of wet hair, under a towel after coming out of the water at the beach on a hot August afternoon

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Add Title -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 9, 2025 By 4 Comments

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

A Comment from, Misky the following:

That is, of course, in reference to: If you’re still reading, congratulations! You have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. enjoy!

Thanks, Misky

Funny thing about Chuck Berry, (sample below). Back when we were as young as the music was new, we took to the change in stride. But like Vinko Bogataj, we both under-and-over appreciated the new music. Over-appreciated in the sense of the technical innovation of Mr. Berry’s guitar playing and under-appreciated how fundamental to modern music it would be. (Hint: showmanship, while never absent in popular music, to the student impatient with the dull, routine of playing scales by rote, represented a license to evade the drudgery of practice.)

the Wakefield Doctrine, in this caffeine-stumble of a Post (that started with such an impeccable thesis: ‘Essay Question: Typical Response of the three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) to first encounter with the Wakefield Doctrine. Compare and Contrast’

clarks: damn/huh!/shit
scotts: “You fuckin’ clarks!” (infectious laughter)
rogers: “Sorry, but while this is interesting, I seem to be a fourth personality type consisting of all three equally”

So, back to the implied essay question: Why is having a significant secondary clarklike aspect necessary for scotts and rogers to best appreciate this little personality theory of ours?

The inability of clarks to believe anything.

There’s an old saying, “The greater the power of imagination, the higher the barrier to belief.”

In simple terms*: a scott or a roger without a secondary clarklike aspect is a perfectly balanced personality. They live in perfect worlds, leading perfect lives. The relationship they (each) maintain with their respective worlds accounts for everything. While individuals may appear to search for answers and strive to develop, they are all Chuck Berry. They advance their personal realities. Develop and become more sophisticated. But they are, (to themselves, in silent affirmation), good and sufficient people.

There’s another old saying, “If you need to identify the clarks in a crowd of people gathered in an auditorium, pose the question: “Who would be interested in becoming another person?”

the clark’s gift (and curse) is the prominance in their personal reality of the challenge, “Yeah, but what if?”

*(lol ok, we’re trying. having, of late, spent time with early-Doctrine posts, our efforts to duplicate the naturally provocative voice of those days… (visual: opera singer complete with tuxedo and pince-nez singing: ‘Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans…’)

 

Program Note!! Tomorrow is when Denise‘s bloghop, the ‘Six Sentence Story’ goes live. Be there or be…

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2ooze’dae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 8, 2025 By 8 Comments

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

(tonight we walk among the Herd…shhh)

The ‘Everything Rule’ notwithstanding, we can make the following observations:

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

when manifesting creativity, clarks are the only one to bring into being something that was/is/otherwise would not be; the creativity of a scott is to allow the other person to imagine they might have had a hand in bringing to the world something wonderful, and rogers, they are the Fabergé manipulators of the world in common (which explains why rogers in whatever art they may engage are the more successful. if popular success was the only measure.)

the Wakefield Doctrine offers a perspective that you would have/probably already noted (if you’re a clark), watched and enjoyed others become entertained by (a scott lives to live, not consume or otherwise deplete), rejected before fully-appreciating, (those rogers with insufficient secondary clarklike aspects)

more often than not, ‘its them, not you’

that said, the ‘them’ (in this contrived provocative statement) is also you (or rather, the ‘them’ in your life are almost (almost) entirely a function of the manner in which you relate yourself to the world around you and the people who make it up.

the Wakefield Doctrine is the simplest of toys/tools. you can’t break it. you can’t even ‘get it wrong’.

If you’re still reading, congratulations! You have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. enjoy! (the clarks knew that already)

Don’t worry about ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine. It’s not a get. It’s more a ‘oh yeah, I see what you’re doing here. you won’t tell them, right?’

Absolutely.

mums the word

trick your friends into coming by and checking this thing out. natural selection at work. (the way young clarks, with the best of intentions, deluded themselves into thinking the world could be, and continued trying to maintain it. yet, you’re here.)

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Mundae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 7, 2025 By 6 Comments

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

Hey, clarks! Reminder: there is no bad predominant worldview. no less than/more than. just clarks, scotts and rogers. three personal realities, three ways to relate to the world around us and the people who make it up.

and, seeing how clarks tend to be the ones more inclined to consider the notion that a desire to self-improve oneself is a virtue not a sin. arguable that one’s desire in this regard is pro se and not an admission of fault (real and imagined (which, if one is still reading, is inclined to add ‘yeah, like there’s a difference’))

be that as it may, a little experiment this Mundae. A remembrance and celebration of a different time in this tale of the search for the secret of the universe.

Rather than a cut-paste of an old post, we will provide a link to an old post. In most part because we enjoyed the Comment section (of this post). Old ‘friends’ visiting and such.

New Readers: Extra Credit to the shouted, ‘What the hell! Just print the whole fricken thing and we can read what you want us to read. Without having to click yet another hyperlink. What are you, a clark or something? Sure, we get it. You don’t want to risk being criticized by a total stranger for self-promoting yourself. We get it, you’re not a roger. Neither are we, so, print the fuckin’ link and let the world be the judge as you’re sure it is but without the self-indulgence. Speaking from the obvious-by-now perspective of the third predominant worldview, life’s too short to worry about being good enough. being alive is, metaphysician-istically speaking, all you can ask for. everything else is what you do! Where’s that link. lol.

THE LINK

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