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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Slow-typing Monday. Let’s not fight it, shall we? (lol)

Tool kit. Action Plan. Social Strategy

What is the value of the Wakefield Doctrine?

nah, too… Mutual of Oh Mama…let’s try this:

*explanations are to clarks as sex is to scotts and tradition is to rogers*

Better.

Got the patina of a morning-after Clearsil ya know? without being too ‘you can’t stay in bed all day’

(sad commentary when your Curator needs to warm-up in order to go looking for a RePrint post to brush-away all the white space on this Monday morning’s Doctrine post draft.)

ok…ok hold on (hey are we the only ones who have mornings when the ability to type vanishes like confidence when making a morning after telephone call?)

yeah…

here we go. (“Service Department, please. What? Sorry, wrong number.”)

Random Monday the Wakefield Doctrine (if this were organized like a real personality theory, you’d have to pay for it)

August 11, 2014

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

So we (Cyndi and Denise and yours truly) were talking on the WDSLDR Call-in this Saturday. The topic was, superficially, about rogers, but in actuality, it was about clarks.

…because, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them

we came to the conclusion that, prior to entering a new situation, most clarks prefer to know more (about the situation) rather than less. Sometimes this is a reasonable ambition, other times it is not. When it is not, clarks tend to retreat into their heads, in an effort to ‘figure out’ their best approach to the situation. Of course, this tactic will result in our clark not actually participating in the actual events. With this non-attentiveness to the reality we are in, our status of being the Outsider is totally assured. So, as we discussed on Saturday, how do you properly prepare for events that lie in the future and are therefore not completely knowable? (We rolled down the windows and yelled and hooted at a car full of kids from school going in the opposite direction.*) We were using, as the example of this principle, the new work situation that Cyndi was facing at the start of the new year. Most telling was that it was ‘knowing the people’ that she was going to be expected to work with (and in some cases, direct and manage). While we (Denise and me) were no help with the particulars of her work environment, it did occur to us that:

…with the Wakefield Doctrine, you (or me) or maybe just Cyndi, already knows everyone she is going to be working with, even if she has never met them before that first day… they will be clarks or there might be a scott there (probably not two, at least not in the same work environment) and a whole bunch of rogers. so, ‘fear of the unknown? not for this clark!’

We laughed, in part (or in whole), at the realization that, even after years of study, the Wakefield Doctrine still had new insights to offer!

Our conversation continued well past the normal cutoff time of the Saturday Night Drive (8:00 to 8:45 pm EDST). So, if you are in possession of a telephone next Saturday Night give us a call! It’s fun and informative and you will benefit!

with the insights afforded by an understanding of the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine, you will never need find yourself saying, “How could they say such at thing? I really thought I knew them better than that!”

…clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

rogers organize parties, scotts are the most sought after guests and clarks find themselves there, despite their best efforts to the contrary

You know that old aphorism …or chestnut or, ‘come here son, I have something about Life to tell you’, thing about ‘if you have a job that you need done, ask a…’? Well, the Wakefield Doctrine says:

if you need it done right as soon as possible and you don’t care how neatly, or carefully (or correctly) done it is……… ask as scott

if you need it done, don’t mind not getting credit for it being done and don’t care how long it takes to get done………. ask a roger

if you need it done and you’d rather be doing something/anything else and you don’t care if it is completely done (better than you had hoped) or completely done…….ask a clark

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Whenzdey -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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lets set aside the lesson plan for today and consider: random truth and spurious insights

Hey, so clarks, they’re like introverts, right?

How come we can’t be sometimes a scott and then, maybe certain things change and we’re like really pissed off but do the opposite, we’re being a clark?

wth! everything around here seems to come back to clarks… that’s not fair

no, really

if the three predominant worldviews got into a fight… which one would win?

how come you people don’t like rogers?

a girl walks into bar and there are three people sitting there: one at the far end, one at the near end and the third in the middle, which should she talk to first?

no way! you’re not gonna leave these open-ended!!?

right? right?!?!

oh. that fishbowl

full of little strip of like fortune cookie…fortunes

real clever

*the clark*you remember round fishbowls in Saturday Morning cartoons*because clarks are the ones who actually need it*we don’t dislike them, they’re just very…triggering*sure we are*the clark again*thats not the way this works*no. no they are not*thank you*sure we are*correctomundo*exactly!

Don’t forget! Doors open at Denise’s Six Sentence Story bloghop promptly at 6:00 pm EDST (here in Oceania) Word on the street we can expect an appearance by Chris, Misky, Reelika, Frank and, of course, Mimi

Be there or acquire the characteristics of a four-sided figure created exclusively with ninety-degree angles yo

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of Outsiders and Time”

June 12, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 Comments

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AP level Doctrine post today. prerequisite: predominant worldview of the Outsider (clarks) / scott or roger with a seriously significant secondary clarklike aspect.

Why the emphasis on the level/degree/intensity of one’s secondary aspect? Well because the thesis today is mostly fringe-creative/just-for-the-sake-of-discussion/imagine for a minute…not so much speculation as we’re playing with words, phrases, ideas and concepts

Lets jump right to it.

A clark’s (the Outsider) relationship with Time is that of: Ocean-to-the-Island. clarks experience Time as an (unspoken) measure of the distance between themselfs and the real world/real people/real live

for a clark Time is either in too short supply or ‘wait!! just a little longer.

wanna know one of the drawbacks to embracing genuine creativity, as clarks do?

Hint: it is not the response by those who encounter it (aka the audience/market/friends-and-family). In most cases the response tends towards incomprehension (‘What the hell is that supposed to be??!”) anger and resentment (“Now you’re just mocking… in a patently obvious way.”) or even (“Grow the hell up! This is childishly indulgent.“)

hey! you! (the Readers still here) know a good definition of Outsider in the context of the Wakefield Doctrine? Apart From.

Wanna know (one of) the costs of genuine creativity (i.e. not remodeling existing ideas, but rather bringing into existence something that did not previously exist)?

Thing of it is, to go to where all is possible, one needs to be capable (and willing) to believe in anything. to believe in anything (which is a touch more than ‘everything’) one must surrender the right/privilege/comfort inherent in believing (something). We could make this simpler, aka less ‘wtf’? Sure why the hell not?

By saying there are things, innumerable things, that most people (scotts and rogers) believe in that are not counted: sky is blue, down and up, here and me. And it is the natural, incontrovertable truth to these (and other) beliefs that put the… ‘real in reality’

Now imagine you know this. ah ha! the great separator! knowing vs accepting-with-distinction

Back to today’s theme: Outsiders (clarks) and Time.

Real simple: Time is the closest measure we possess to assay/grasp/accept the distance between us and the real world/real people (scotts and rogers)

Now get back out there and add what you can of this idea the better to enhance your own appreciation of the crazy-high proportion of non-sensical to reasonable in the day ahead

ur welcome

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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ok… open your books to… you don’t get to go outside until after class etc

Sorry. Wanted to do a Summer School riff this Monday morning, but we woke up tired.

Damn! Metaphorically-speaking could you ask for more a clarklike theme than what’s inherent in that final phrase?

(oh, yeah. thanks for reminding us…anyone out there have a line on an app/site/whatever that will diagram sentences? We remember from elementary school having to diagram sentences on the chalkboard in front of the class. You know, with the slanting lines an shit for adverbs and adjectives. Increasingly finding ourselfs wanting to know what the technical term for things are, like that in the second sentence, ”…but we woke up tired’. Totally think it’s something like: ‘cross-species pre-injunctive phrase’. You know, with Latin sprinkled in like raisins in a breakfast cereal. Even as we typed the original sentence, we could hear one of the nuns (from back in school) say, “Mister clark, I would advise you get you one of them.”

(Full Disclosure: while it is accurate to cite a nun as being an elementary school teacher, we are taking liberties with how she would express herself. That wonderfully peculiar wording is courtesy of a utube channel about getting rid of bees and such. ‘First of all, go ahead and get you some apple juice.” Will try to find it and post it somewhere in this train-wreck of a post)

Damn! Found it! Here’s the link!

oh man! We totally need to let D. Avery and Violet’s Lentz know about these guys. What? Well, no! We’re not suggesting either of them have a pest/hornet problem. It’s just that they’re both, imo, Masters of Patois. They both gots that expert…whatever the term for it (yeah, our vocab is off today) for a special voice. Anyway, have linked them in.

We’re feelin’ kinda guilty about doing a mega-short Weekday post. These are usually reserved for Fridays when we’re done with the imaginary stuff (fiction written expressly for the Six Sentence Story bloghop). What say we just do a link. That way none of our New Readers will feel guilty for not reading everything in this post. lol as we’re sure they will. yeah, we’re looking at you Reelika and Ms. Pie. (well, no. not in a creepy, stalky way. we’re a clark not a roger! lol)

almost forgot! Your extra credit reading here.

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Túsáde -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Lots of Commentationing (on yesterday’s and other Posts)

Who indeed!

Above is a photo of Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia. If you have done your reading you should be able to correctly guess her predominant worldview. AP Readers? Goal? Learn the Doctrine sufficiently to allow you to identify (on the basis of this single photo) her secondary aspect as well.

ok, in no discernible order* lets throw some comments on the blackboard and see what comes of it

Mr. Hubeny! Please stand and repeat your statement for the benefit of anyone who did not see the Post

I think I’m going to change my life and become a clark. If I’m already a clark, this should be easy. If not, well, there are always miracles.

Mimi, if you’d help the class grasp the concept

Not for nothing you wear gloves and be careful when working outdoors, the critters do pop up sudden like.

Misky, would you care to share the contents of that note with the rest of us?

My mother-in-law was scottian (she probably still is — up there in heaven somewhere) and I remember as clearly as a sunny day thinking “I’m going to wear red because it makes me happy, and everyone will think, “Oh, look at her; she’s happy.” And I knew she’d comment, which she did. She was most certainly scottian but there was a good dose of rogerian in her gene pool also.

It’s not that we didn’t get along — we did, exceptionally well at a distance.

Ms. Pie

always enjoyable… always laughter… learn some new insightful aspect of the threes that I can take to the grocery store with me while I’m shopping… processing processing processing

Well that certainly provides us with discussionable** topics for today!

Tell you what read and discuss (kinda open book) and we will return after lunch.

you guys know this stuff

and thanks to our four correspondants for helping form an instructive Wakefield Doctrine post

* at least not for two of the three predominant worldviews

** well, while not a ‘real’ word, this might provided us with a quick refresher on grammar and pronunciation and such***

*** what?? a bullet point list?

clark: one of the three predominant worldviews aka ‘the Outsider’ adj: clarklike (ex. “…is anyone gonna inform our clarklike narrator that correction is not criticism…at least not in the sense understood by Outsiders and Predators?”)
scott: the Predator and one of the first of the two ‘say what now?’ pronounciation of the adj and adv form: scott: ss cot; scottian: scoe-shun
rogers: the Herd Members and cultural wardens; rogerian is an adjective (scenario: long class wrapping up, even the professor is clearly ready to call it a day, yet says, “If there are no other questions, read chapters….” and, of course, someone raises their hand. visualize thought-balloon: “Oh man, that is so rogerian” (pronounced: roe-jeer-ree-an)