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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

How to Employ the (Alternative) Perspective (of) the Wakefield Doctrine?

Sorry, Trick Question.

The one thing we avoid like a sick metaphor is the Trick Question.

(Of course, there is the Everything Rule to contradict us. As it requires: all three personality types indulge/do/engage in the use of Trick Questions. The nature and character of this form of entrapment* is a reflection of the individual’s personal reality.)

But Time is running out.

Sixes to write for the Six Sentence Story. Be sure to get your ‘friends’ to go there and read and comment and such. We’d suggest you tell ’em to participate with their own Six, but, given that most of your immediate, i.e. within short reach, friends are either relatives or rogers (with a scattering of scotts)… not so likely. But as you know, that is the way of (your) world. After all, you didn’t decide what kind of world/who populates it, right?

lol (hey! look! the Reader next to you, their thought balloons! ‘Sorry, you’ve over-reached. No one pre-determines their parents‘ Yeah, we get that…roger.

the thing of it is, the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective that, like the aforementioned thought balloons, is an insight in to the minds of the people around you. pretty cool, no?

We’re sensing a certain skittishness among our Herd Member brethren. Would suck that a body could think outside the group. Be fricken’ chaos, would it not?

ok… will stop playin’ with you. (that was our scottian secondary havin’ some cruel fun)

Damn! A legit ending for today’s post!!

scotts are cruel, rogers are mean and clarks are heartless!

So, RePrint, anyone?

Another Holiday! Can you spot the clarks, scotts and rogers?! the Wakefield Doctrine shows you how!

May 26, 2012

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

We are beginning a weekend. In this writer’s culture it is a major Holiday, (the) Memorial Day Weekend. It is also what we refer to as a ‘gateway holiday’, it’s preliminary enticements…it’s ‘harmless buzz‘, if you will includes:

Indianapolis 500 car race…33 cars drive 500 miles by turning left on a 2.5 mile ovular track, while many people are watching from behind steel-reinforced wire fences

First Day of Summer…sort of, technically the first day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is June 21, but given the value of knowing Summer has started… it will do

scotts seize the meteorological opportunity to wear as little clothing as possible

rogers look forward to 3 months of what amounts to ‘groups synchronized fun’, aka picnics and cookouts!

clarks enjoy Summer, if for no other reason than given the sheer volume of the fun, some is bound to get on them

…even though it is Summer, we will be catching up with our 3 Job Seekers, ‘the clarklike guy, Emily, and ‘that scottian fella’

we will be visiting Fort Worth, Texas in the middle of June! If you live there and need a Wakefield Doctrine Tee shirt, be sure to let us know

if we are on the road for business we know that a Treaty of Tordesillas Road Trip will be part of the trip

Memorial Day Weekend Contest!! Send us your favorite activity that involves one of the other personality types and why you enjoy it! (..if you are a clark then your fun with a scott or a roger, if you are a scott….etc)

(what? promised to show the Readers what? damn!! that’s right we did…shit, thought I was done for the day!…hold on, hold on, they might still be listening to the music vid… music from a car commercial?!? you’re kidding, tell me you’re kidding… )

So how do you spot the three personality types in the Summer Holiday Season?

follow the trail of empty charcoal lighter fluid cans… the guy standing over the grill with a match yelling, “hey kids wanna see something cool?” … this is your scottian personality type.
the fellow with the chefs apron, barbecue utensil tool belt who is standing in the doorway of the house looking at the outdoor temperature dial saying, “well honey, for the best tasting steak, the temperature/humidity index really should be no more than…” this is your rogerian personality type
the person putting the food that the guests brought in bowls and serving trays saying, “no, I don’t mind…sure you can take this out to the patio, I’ll just stay here and get a start on the dishes” this is your clarklike personality type
the person standing at the picnic table, keeping everything covered with saran wrap, closing the tupperware lids and saying, “no, you cannot go swimming, it has only been 40 minutes” this is your rogerian personality type
the person sitting in the chair, watching the volleyball game who seems eager to play but every time someone leaves the game, is heard to say, ” nah…won’t don’t you get glenn..he really is good at this” this is your clarklike personality type
the person taking off her clothing by the poolside who can be heard (but not seen because of the crowd around her), “I hope this bathing suit is not too revealing, I just bought it and haven’t had a chance to wear it anywhere” this is your scottian personality type

* See?!!? Right there! There was a choice of a multiple of three cinnamons (yum!) in that last sentence. We could’ve had a pretty good shot at telling you the predominant worldview of the author entirely on the basis of their choice of (whatever the technical term for a noun-stand-in that entrapment is), in this context. ‘ceptin for the fact that everyone knows the Curator is a clark (with a significant secondary scottian aspect.)

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the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘… on a Tuesday that would be Monday’

May 27, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

We’ve approached this particular theme/topic/’the Doctrine says…’ before.

…We interrupt this vaguely formed post (how if Wednesday was a sibling then Tuesday would obviously be Cinderella*) to bring you the following RePrint. cai and Misky, (of our horde of Reader), might not have heard the story told in typical clarklike style of story-telling**. For that matter, maybe Mimi… (nah, she would have intuited it from, like, the second Doctrine post). Well, for what it’s worth, here is the Origin Story of everyone’s favorite off-the-books personality theory.

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “… so what, exactly, did you see, that day in the music store?”

November 11, 2020

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

Today we come to the conclusion (and conclusions) of our re-telling of the origin of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.

New Readers? the Wakefield Doctrine offers a perspective on our world(s) and the people who make it up. Starting with the idea, the notion, the ‘let’s imagine for a second that‘ we’re all born with the potential to experience the world in one of three quite distinct ways and then proposing that our natural efforts to learn to deal with, develop strategies to contend with, create a personality suited to the condition that we, still tiny, little babies, must engage, results in the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clark (the Outsider) forever apart from, always searching for the information that the other two personality types obviously were taught, moving through the shadows both in broad daylight and clutching night

scott (the Predator) never resting, never deprived, asking only to be free to chase desires and live as a member of a pack in which one’s place, in this necessarily vertical arrangement, carries not the slightest value judgement on the individual

roger (the Herd Member) the epitome of social Man, connected to all that matters and accentuating all that does not, the world is a beautifully, (and sometimes insidiously), crafted machine for the world of Men and Women to explore, map, organize and subjugate.

We all move through one, (and only one), of these three worlds. We retain the potential, the atrophied urges to think, act or feel as would the two other worldviews, but we are of one world. Once we accept that, (in ourselves and, at arms length, in others), we are better equipped to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool to appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us.

If you’re just joining us, this, as we said above, is the conclusion of the origin of the Wakefield Doctrine. The first installment set up the scene and introduced the players, (Click Here Part 1). The second installment bring the action to a climax, moving the people, (and concepts), into position, (Click Here Part 2) and today we have the denouement *.

The brass bell over the door signaled the ‘all clear’ and the world was almost the same as when it announced the arrival of the man with the dual cassette dubbing deck.

Scott gave no indications that he was aware of any change to the world. (Of course, he didn’t. The sun was still at the right point on its arc for the time of day and the earth was still staying beneath our feet.)

I felt the change. I knew there was a change.

Yet even now, forty can’t-be-that-many-years later, I struggle to articulate my state of mind. Close to the feeling you get when, one second before you scrape the 5/8ths-complete jigsaw puzzle into the box and go do something fun, you pick up a piece without thinking and it is the piece that not only fits, but joins several, seemingly disparate pieces, creating more of a whole.

Perhaps the most useful moral of our little story of cassette recorders and music stores is more than, ‘This is a key to understanding the world’. Perhaps it is to accept, (and build upon), the idea that, ‘This key is a proof of the world being understandable’.

* that is such a cool word, like speaking rhetoric with a French accent… at least, the clark within hopes**

** slightly advanced level Doctrine: while we all have one (and only one) predominant worldview, we never lose the potential of ‘the other two’. And, …and! for reasons not yet understood, some of us develop more significant secondary (and tertiary) aspects than others. Example: I am a clark. I have a significant secondary scottianaspect. Everything in these pages, on this blog, is evidence of that. Why do I say that? ’cause if I was a clark with negligible secondary (and tertiary) aspects I’d be quite satisfied writing these posts in my head (maybe sharing them with a very close friend). And I sure as shit would think twice about whipping out a word like ‘denouement’.

*go ahead, bring this back to us as a topic say, half-past ‘yeah, right. as if that won’t be a weird post.

** and it really is a compliment, relying as it does on the listener holding multiple skeins of colorful narrative while trying to live a normal life

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 23, 2025 By clarkscottroger 9 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. Created during the Haight-Ashbury Rebellion, the blog-that-Lizzi-created remains one of the few artifacts from that era. It remains today, at the bare minimum, a tribute to the insensate drive to see the world as it might be and list the clues and telltales of the existence of a comprehensive understanding of the potential that is nacre’d within most people.

This is our list of the people, places, things and events that have inspired the state of gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) found it! totally grateful that… oh. yeah you don’t live in my head (…much) well, we don’t talk about it nearly as much as we used to, but there is still something called the Saturday Night Call-In (see upper right on landing page. The coolest thing was, back in the day, hey let us record an announcement when (you) called the number. But…but!! while we supplied the scripted intro, the voice was computer-generated! We play it at the end of this short, 3 minute video.*

5) * sorry, we do not currently have hats (for your damn head) but, who knows, maybe someday

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

8) Of all the driveways in all the towns in all the world... google watches us mow. no, serially, here is a clip of a google street view… think we’ll get residuals? (yeah, to whoever said, “Why don’cha put a sign ‘the Wakefield Doctrine Curator-in-Residence’?”

9) Part of the reno work on Ola’s grave necessitated our going to the beach. Photo at top of the post. A nearby ocean.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

Music vids

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…the mildest, most (potentially) clarklike day of the week.’

May 20, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

And no, that is not a bad thing, sad thing, better try harder, take it as a warning thing.

You want wandering tribes, you want -give up now while you a chance Thermopylians, you say you just want to be left along?

Tricks and traps and self-sabotage of the Outsider people since the day they heard the whisper, “What did you do to deserve being so regarded?”

New Readers: AP Doctrine today. You may indulge in free-study for the remainder of this post. It’s about to get…. wtf confusing. Or follow along in your work books. Please note, the sharp, pointed Number 2 pencils and yellow-lined note pads have been replaced by little screw-on top glass jars of primary color paints on top of broad sheets of construction paper… you, the certain percentage in any group, will be auto-dispensated for breaking silence with a laugh of ‘Really? You think you can draw me out with this …obvious entrapment?” Eyeing that most clarklike of color, blue. Go ahead. Label-less day today.

Thanks to the regular Readers for not spoiling the momentary respite for the clarks. Even as they smear paints with abandon, they are wondering if they missed something. Everyone knows that blue is the rarest of colors.

But, for today, we all are permitted to state is that of all three of the predominant worldviews the benefits for one are standout, if-you-have-to-ask, take this and use it today.

Hey! Maybe a bumper sticker!

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Too-sdae -the Wakefield Doctrine- “for extra credit…the following question from a Reader”

May 13, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Damn, must be getting forgetful in our old age! Overlooked a very good question in yesterday’s post (originally courtesy Misky)

So now I’m wondering if The Doctrine addresses clothing preferences.

It does.

But! A quick, short answer provided little of practical value. Sorta like asking, does this saw cut wood? Can I pound nails with that hammer. ‘Yes’ works. But if we change up the phrasing and make the object of the (first) question the subject and make the ‘clothing preferences’ our interrogative noun, we afford ourselfs of a far more useful question.

Without the aid of the slanting lines, but the ambition of a visual image of transforming (our correspondent’s) original into one that offers a wider, more comprehensive perspective:

~~So now~~ (I’m wondering if) How The Doctrine addresses clothing preferences among the three predominant worldviews -> clothing preferences -> as common (to all) how do they manifest in clarks, scotts and rogers?

Miz Cai? Would you do the class a favor and come up to the blackboard and diagram this new sentence? If you please.

(Crib sheet entry: how does this request, one that many if not most Readers have experienced in one form or another, manifest to a clark or scott or roger?)

Out of time, as common on Tuesdays. The thing about preferences of fashion (or any other personal affectation) is the simplest approach is to ask ‘How does (this) manifest in the reality of the Outsider, world of a Predator or life of a Herd Member?

The simplest answer: Well, what is consistent with the world around them (and the people who make it up)?

quick RePrint (blog version of smudging the pencil marks of a questionable answer on an arithmetic quiz)

Besides we like to think this Doctrine thing is a lot of fun. We might be talking about someone in the news and one of us will turn to the other and say, “Obama….what a roger!” or we might say to each other, “You know those Progressive Insurance commercials on TV? That Flo person, how much of a clark is she, huh?” So this is not just a website you go to and take a test and find out that your personality type is INTP/otter-with-malamute tendencies, hell no! We have fun because we see clarks and scotts and rogers out there in the world and they act just like the Wakefield Doctrine tells us they should act! And it’s getting like we don’t have to make any of this shit up anymore…the clarks and the scotts and the rogers prove that the theory is totally true. Try it your ownselfs!

Today I have copied a page out of the Table of Contents to show that the personality business is not all dry boring, reading stuff! Clearly we like to borrow stuff, here at the Doctrine. So it should not surprise anyone how we went an sort a used Jeff Foxworthy’s “you might be a redneck…” thing. But hey if it makes you laugh, then you will be learning the whole thing about which are clarks and which are scotts and which are rogers.

You immediately stop surfing the channels when you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger

You totally love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott

You find a flier stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.

You are asked a question and you start to answer with “in the beginning…” you might be a clark.

You are addressed by the wrong name and you answer to it without correction… you might be a clark.

You are building model cars/ships/planes, you always put the extra parts back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.

You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark

You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott

You think that the 107 episode, Directors cut, 15 DVD un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes (including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger

You have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement (for male rogers only) or a ‘fanny pack’ (either male or female rogers), or any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.

You happen to be at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.

You are contemplating a project of any sort; a new deck or a term paper, writing a resume or planting a garden and you:

…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark

…you must know what your friends on the ’do it yourself’ shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger

…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU!! IT’S DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott