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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

we don’t normally do a ‘caption this’…but as a result of a search for images: Socratic Method’ is this image. Seriously, who doesn’t want to magic marker the figure at the far-right, “Jesus Christ… enough with the ‘Let me ask you this…”

so, thanks again to the Comment section for a topic for the ‘mildest day of the (work)week’, Tuesday.

Specifically, Mimi for her Comment on yesterday’s Post:

It’s not a matter of wanting to change, or be like others, it’s a matter of being able to relate to them on their terms when needed, and it’s needed a lot.

All kidding aside, our Friend of the Doctrine points to the linchpin of the process of using the Doctrine as a tool, as opposed to a party trick.

New Reader Warning: The following is totally AP Doctrine Theory and Practice. Which means: check your work. You’ll be expected to grade your own test. More critically, and this applies to the implication of Point 2 below, while it is true that when it comes to the Wakefield Doctrine, ‘you can’t get it wrong’…. you totally can diminish the efficacy and value of it as a tool for your ownself.

Two things: three people? potentially three personal realities. three realities? three different manifestations of the same experience. three manifestations? three different forms of the message.

Fine.

But…but!! Being curated by a clark, one thing jumps out at us: a) we all have access to a trilingual dictionary and, with effort, practice and diligence can learn the native language of ‘the other two’ and; 2) if we are trying to translate what we hear them say into our native language, we are, perforce, confronted with the opportunity to look objectively at what ‘we think we mean.’ To/of thine ownself be learnin’

ten four, eleanor

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 23, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

So, sure, let’s address the matter of self-improving oneself with the aid the Wakefield Doctrine.

On third thought, what say we read words that were, at the time, perfectly good words to convey the notion that since we have the potential to experience the world in one of three ways, i.e. as an Outsider (clark), Predator (scott) or Herd Member (roger), we already know the answer.

(Extra credit to the clark who just said, “Well, duh.”)

(Extra, extra credit to the clarks who turned to the other Readers and, laughing said, “You’re not fooled, right? This is an outdated answer to the question of self-improving ourselfs. It’s not a ‘potential to experience the world (a certain way)’, it’s the willingness to change our fricken’ relationship to the world around us.’)

(Being a wise, and, we might add, very definitely not unreliable Narrator, we hasten to add… “Sure! Go get in ever one’s face and be all aggressive and such, like any good scott would. But don’t forget the simple fact: they have practiced all they lives to be a Predator. After all, anyone one with the money and the space in their homes can buy a Marshall stack and a Strat and try and play some Hendrix….” We will not insult the putative intelligence of our Readers by going into an explicit description of the outcome of this endeavor.)

Are we saying, ‘Don’t bother, you can never be an effective (fill in the blank for one of the other two relationships with the world around you)?

Kinda

But…but!! The whole thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is, first and foremost, to encourage and nurture acceptance of the notion that all reality is personal. And if there is any lesson every pre-adolescent child learns and almost always forgets: two of (this pre-adolescent child’s friends) see and live in the world different from the one they were bequeathed by the parents and family unit.

Sorry, had to get a little ’round about in that last section. It’s ok, Readers, you can look on the answer sheets of your neighbor. The one not trying to hide their answers and the one not holding them up… the clarks.

awright! dodged another guilt round in the live action, role-play call Real Life.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 21, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Foundered by Lizzi R in 1974 it remains the single most frequented grat blog in the ‘sphere. Hailed by some as the finest example of a grat blog that doesn’t smother the participants in dollies, lace and a freshman coed’s miasma of patchouli incense. Rather, the participants are encouraged to let their imagination and creativity off-leash for at least ten Grat Items. The Founder would’ve approved.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) work (or back in the day when things were very busy) properties such as the one at the top of the post. an old, abandoned cottage on a hillside overlooking a lake in Connecticut that brings back memories…sure, why not? Here’s another photo of the same property

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) proximity of ocean (well, technically Rhode Island Sound is what is seen in the photo below)

7) fity degrees in temperature all except the most sheltered and secret snow has melted into the ground.

8) something, something

9) clean windows. (part 1… a winter of using a wood stove to supplement central heat is easy on the budget, not so much on the transparency of glass.) the real challenge is in technique… a lot of the windows are in direct sunlight…wait, what are we saying??!! here’s a thousand words (including a before after)… damn! hold on! need to wait until the sun moves over to that side… photos at 3:30

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Friday Wrap-up -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 20, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Good week of Practical Application Doctrine posts, no?

In Monday’s post we recall¹ that clarks are born old. The takeaway being: ‘it’s ok to relax and give yourself a break from the stress, but being old is not the worst thing’. (Ask any young scott in troubke for driving their initials into the grass of the high school football field or answering the questions to a weekly test she had not a clue the answers were…in lipstick). We’re just saying, the older (i.e. accrued birthdays) we clarks get, the less inclined we tend to indulge in frivolity (for frivolity’s sake and fun, too. you remember fun, right?)²
Tuesday: a fun little RePrint on the topic of scotts.³

Wednesday’s post, well, you see the photo at the top? the three people? It is said, that with a good enough heart and the willingness to throw off the chains of reason, why-can’t-you-just-be-not-so-strange-for-once and/or be reasonable, you could re-create the whole of the Wakefield Doctrine on the basis of the image alone.

No! Really! We believe that and if you’re still reading, you do as well (ok, maybe not stand up and say it, but there is a little, quiet(ish) voice in your head saying, ‘There is something so familiar about those three.”

So, here’s the thing. With a certain degree of discretion, tell ever one to come here and read the Wakefield Doctrine. (Not such a wild suggestion, given that Readers are clarks or scotts and rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspect. Discretion is kinda mostly all of valor.

1. the thing about this Wakefield Doctrine? It allows that, while the relationship we maintain with the world around us designates our ‘personality type’, there is nothing inherent in the world of one personal reality and not the others. What that means is that when, as so often we do, look to theories and understandings of personality to change, develop and improve the quality of our ‘tenure’ we have nothing to learn.

…but everything to remember, aka accept

2. current post excepted

3. yes, in the back, Miss M? Well, not to spoil it for your classmates, but no, we don’t think we’re not being fair…scotts are, well, just easier to write about.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 16, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

In addition to being immune to any undue influence in regard to both gender and culture, the Wakefield Doctrine is age neutral.

What does that mean/What the fuck/What is it you think you’re saying?

…said three Readers, each with a different predominant worldview.

ed. the photo at the top? Ola as a puppy.

ok!!

That certainly was intriguing, insightful and just a touch incomplete! What say we wrap things up with three provocative statements about the personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine

For the three, as time inexorably advances, the essential character, fading, but never disappearing:

clarks (the Outsiders) are born old. If lucky, they lose the shackles and bindings of reasonable judgement and accommodation
scotts (the Predators) never grow old. The measure of tenure, with it’s implied skill of enduring, very much luck and a strong secondary aspect
rogers (the Herd Members) are born to a perfect world. If spared too great a drive to become perfecter, survive in a tradition

there ya go!

forgive our caveman’s club of musical selection… like the song. Chose the live version because Neil, for a roger, did not age consistent with the grace he possessed before he got old.