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Whenzdey -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

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

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

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

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

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)

somebody just say, “More ‘Top!!”

more Top indeed.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 1, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey being the First Day of Summer School here at the Doctrine, what say we start with a Q&A?

Here, from the early, no, really, early days of this blog* our FAQ page

I think sometimes I am (a scott) then other times I must be (a clark). Whats up with that?

You’re a clark.

Hey, wait you can’t be that sure on the basis of one question!

Yes I can. (I’m a clark)

The question you should be asking is, ‘why does it seem that sometimes we are one form, other times others’. And the answer is that we have the potential of all three, we just get in the habit of seeing the world one characteristic way, i.e. clark, scott or roger.

Is there any scientific basis for the Wakefield Doctrine?

No. (see the ‘About’ page.)

When I read this site, it seems like there is really only one person writing. Can that possibly be true? What happened to the collaborative thing.

Nothing.

I thought this was a FAQ pages, I don’t see all that many Questions.

…I’m waiting for a question… ‘what part of ‘Frequently asked questions’ are you brainiacs missing? There would be useful information if some of you scottian adhd cases or you middle-of-the-herd rogerian mouth-breathers would conquer your fear of anything that doesn’t already have a DYNAMO brand embossed label stuck to this blog letting you know that it was within your admittedly limited range of initiative and realise that you would not be struck down by Jethro were you to actually reach out and turn on your computer and asked a question.

Will there ever be new FAQ questions?

Yes, yes there will.

I heard that you have been doing this for nearly a year, what have you learned about the Wakefield Doctrine that you did not know when you started?

Which part of your statement are you calling a question? Rather than wait for you to move your lips as your try to re-phrase the question, I will answer this way. The Wakefield Doctrine appears to have an appeal beyond my immediate circle of friends, in fact, it appears to have sufficient appeal to out-weigh my meager writing skills. By presenting the Doctrine in a blog, the virtue and value of this thing is put to the test. And it seems to be passing that test.
What a well-thought out question.

What?

Never mind, you would not get it. Other aspects that you would not get is that the Doctrine is proving itself to actually be an effective tool in aid of an effort to change life habits. (Given the unlikelihood of your comprehending this answer I will continue), and say that anyone reading this with a true desire to ‘change their life’* should read this blog and do whatever they must do to get actively involved in it. This includes, but is not limited to: writing Comments.

*Is it true that if I have to ask the question, I will perforce be unable to understand the question?

Yes.

oh…kay! This is probably where we should do a Person of Interest** timeline slider thing from 2009 to 2026. But let’s just get us… well, first off, what’ with the ‘tude? ;p

As both Reelika Pedak and Frank Hubeny alluded to in this week’s TToT conversations, the first/earliest posts one writes can be the most difficult. Given that the tone of the FAQ was a bit aggressive if not a touch strident, let’s chalk it up to Opening Night(ish) jitters and let it go at that.

No, not necessary to Update/Refresh or otherwise edit this Page. The Wakefield Doctrine is, as are many things of the mind, kinda alive. We can say without fear of contradiction that the early years were conflict free for us. In point of fact, despite being a clark, the mantra of ‘if that last post sucked, then write another and bury it’. See? No problem.’ One of the undeniable examples of the efficacy of this here personality system here lies with its effect on us. Hard to convey, but compared to the clark we were before committing to this medium, theys surely something going on.

Rambling now.

There is much to the early days of this blog that still strikes us as remarkable. Not so much the content, rather the attitude we had towards going public and, through each post (now in the mid-3k in numbers) reaching out to the virtual world to say:

“Hey! Wanna hear about a really cool and useful perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up?”

* hokey smoke! this was written July 21, 20….09!! as in, ‘Well, it’s been a month, where’s the Nobel Committee?!?”

** most excellent of ‘TV series’

hey, chance to head off a mind worm of a song from that Little ‘Ol Band From Texas