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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger Leave a Comment

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

If you permit us to dispense with all the set-up and qualification for the thesis of today’s post, i.e. which of the three will get it, why the ‘other two’ don’t, what you say we just jump right in.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up) that is useful as a tool. A tool to aid in our effort to self-improve ourselfs.

As is the case with most (simple) machines and (their scottian cousins) simple tools, their most basic (and therefore, efficacious) operation should be immediately apparent. So too, with our Doctrine.

So here’s the thing: it’s not that the Doctrine doesn’t bring about changes in how we relate ourselves to the world around us, it does. It’s that we don’t always accept the changes we know in our minds are what we ‘want’.

In other words, ‘We go into the Better Self Store. Find what we’ve been looking for and take it to the Checkout counter. Pay for it. Proceed to walk out of the store, leaving our purchase on the counter.*

yeah, like that.

New Readers! Some of you, the more adept at this Doctrine thing, are probably feeling less than well. A slight drop in the stomach, heat in the face etc. Don’t despair. You’ve already done the hard work. Most (say 2/3) of people don’t know there’s a store. Of those who do, most of them, don’t know where it is** and finally, of them who drive into the parking lot, almost all don’t have what it takes to walk into the store.

*or, worse, take out out of the store, put it on the roof of our vehicle as we unlock the doors and…drive away with it still on the roof. (yeah, you more advanced, imaginative Readers, the pedestrians, they be all, “My goodness! Don’t that driver know they’ve left they purchase on de roof?”

** Hint: it’s somewhere different for each of us and is not always clearly marked. (On our maps. We’re doing a metaphor/allegory/parable here, people. yeah, again. lol)

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2-ooze dé -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

Seeing how we’re in a Back-to-Basics theme this week, lets get all, ‘these-are-some-of-the-certainties-of-the-Doctrine:

clark (the Outsider) …”not a problem, we’ll gladly accept these certainties…until the next set comes along.”
scott (the Predator) “what are you talking about? you run away from us? we chase/ you run at us we fight, pretty simple, isn’t it?”
roger (the Herd Member) “now you’re talking our language! have a seat we’ll tell you everything we need you to know.”

that (bullet list)? We’ll leave it un: tended/edited/refined, ’cause the Wakefield Doctrine is the kind of thing that if you get it, you enjoy it. If not, can’t be helped.

We, all of us, have one, (and only one), predominant worldview. It is: the context/conditions/biases against which we, when tiny, little babies develop: the social strategies/interpersonal style/way-to-get-through-life schema.

By this, (the above), definition, we all have the perfect (or best-we-could-do) personality types. They are geared to the personal reality that we all, individually: grew up/matured in/and made the best of.

The ‘other two personality types?’ They are within us and have the potential to become significant influences in: our lives/interpersonal interactions/efforts to live well.

Needless to say, (well, as far as the clarks reading this), there are no: hybrids/mutations/sports when it comes to predominant worldviews/personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine perspective.

ProTip/Insider Info/’Don’t-tell-anyone-but-I-like-you scoop, the greater the degree of enthusiasm/fervor/desire to be accepted as this special case deserving acceptance by others, the likelihood this person is one of the three approaches lead-pipe cinch status. (Won’t tell anyone. …ok, just a hint: the predominant worldview we’re referring to rhymes with roger,

mums the word.

questions?

thanks and a shout-out to one of the leading Students of this here Doctrine here, our friend Cynthia (totally stylin’ in a Wakefield Doctrine T at the top of the post)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

(I’ve called you all here on a matter of grave concern…..lol)

Let’s do a ‘This is a football‘ post.

Thanks, Vince. Love the work with the collegiate-commercial complex and, of course, the shoring up the patriarchy behind most institutions.

We do not come here to praise football, but to bury it under a pile of rogers.

ok. Monday morning now.

Sticking(ish) with the theme, lets see how we wrote it eleven years ago (?!?!#^?? eleven. years. ago!)

the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the people in our lives, that can, when properly applied, lead to understanding them in ‘additional ways’. By ‘additional ways’, we mean… ‘what am I doing that is an integral aspect in how they are acting?

(…. “Ladies and Gentleman this is ‘an inflated leather spindle torus’” sorry, lol… I was trying to write ‘the speech’, but thought about the ‘setup’…post game speech… locker room… various states of dress…demographics of the current readership…. me standing on a bench (in that locker room)….lol) wait! wait! let me try again.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective. It’s a way to see the world, it’s a way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives. It’s not an Answer, it’s a Question. And…. (hey!! Val!! please!!! no leaning out the window and shouting at the people in the CVS parking lot!!! come on! they’re on serious, old person/sick person business!! thank you. ) the Question is: ‘how does my spouse/the girl at the 7/11, / the Teacher who is shaping my 7 year old’s life/ the people I read about in the news… how do they appear to be ‘relating themselves to the world around them’?’ The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we all live in a personal reality (aka worldview) that is characterized as (one) of the following:

live as ‘the Outsider’ (clarks) always apart from, different, trying to understand what it is they don’t understand, trapped by the belief that it is about knowledge

the world of the Predator (scotts) seemingly confident (always looking for threats and opportunity), active and impulsive running into doors as often as gallantly opening them, protective and paranoid

the life of the Herd Member (rogers) self-assured, as the world of the roger is one that is quantifiable/(and limited), knowable/(and ignorable) ordered and simple… searching only for ‘the Right Way’/ missing the enjoyment of the un-expected and strange

What the Wakefield Doctrine refers to as ‘personality types’ is simply the skill set we develop in order to successfully cope with the reality that we find ourselves growing up in and living our lives in … (‘no Kimberly… we can’t stop for donuts…. we have to drive to Galilee next…. yes, Lisa I will try to walk on the water… very funny’). So what we are saying with the Doctrine is this: understand the three worldviews, infer how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them and they will do the rest. No, I’m serious! Ask anyone! Once you start to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, they will ‘act the part’ to a degree that is sometimes a little scary. But fun.. The goal of all of this is: to try to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

It takes imagination. It takes the kind of curious mind that not only is capable of, but enjoys imagining that a person is a Predator (figuratively) or creative perfectionist or… or even the person who is ever the Outsider, but always manages to be a part of…secretly, of course!

…ok everyone out! we’re back.

No, they’re not.

Back ‘then’, that is. They are long distant in the Before Time.

Let’s wrap this up.

The Wakefield Doctrine, (besides being a perspective), is a tool and an amusement, an insight and a diversion. This because, at the core of the Doctrine, at the heart of everyone’s favorite personality theory, is the belief that all reality, on a basic and not overly-grand level, is personal. A view that no more diminishes the common sensibility of ‘reality’ than reading Shakespeare makes one the Bard.

ya know?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 4, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 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.

The beauty part of this here Grat bloghop here is that the Rules (ten things?) are suggested for the sake, (and benefit), of a certain consistency.* It allows ‘new’ participants and old ‘participants’ to relax and write in a familiar environment. Whereupon we can totally mix things up with unbridled creativity (we’re looking at you, cai! lol) So write whatever you care to and try to stay in the Key of Gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) speaking of the Wakefield Doctrine. encountered a great illustration of a person’s secondary aspect having a clear (and beneficial) effect and influence on a person, i.e. Phyllis. She maintains that she relates herself to the world around her as does a Herd Member, making her, in the more informal parlance of those who versed in the Doctrine, a roger. She does, however, have a significant clarklike secondary aspect. As a roger she knows how things are properly (and consistently) done, aka the Right Way. (a clark, less so lol). Buying a holiday floral arrangement the other day, she came home with:

…given the clarklike leanings of most Readers of this here bloghop here, we will say one word: ‘Audrey Junior’ and leave it at that. (It takes a little extra effort but the original film by Roger Corman can be found. Here’s the IMDb link to help.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) reasonable chance that will we not have a major snowstorm in the near-term future

7) Before and After!! (Grat: to simply be able to rake the leaves) Our resident pitcha maven, Misky might have a pointer or two on sharpening up the …focus

Before

After

8) weather this weekend appears to favor our finishing the pond damn repair project this weekend. the schedule is critical as the ground is warming and once certain lifeforms manage to put on their six or eight shoes and socks and venture out, we need to be long-gone. (Hey! this allows an example of a Hypo- Grat** We leave of glasses in the house!! lol the world subsequently becomes a little indistinct… which is entirely the point!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* the full quote, Mr. Emerson, if you would: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines…” from ‘Self-Reliance‘

** a feature we daresay no other Gratitude bloghops have… the citing of bad people, places, things and events provided the positive outcome is cited (for better explanation check in with our resident expert, Mimi)

music vids Hey! theme this week? instrumentals in which the style or tone of the guitarist is immediately recognizable

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Remedial Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 1, 2026 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

Hey! Here’s an unexpected opportunity!

We enjoyed the comments of Readers of yesterday’s Post.

(wait for it… need to context this before we commit to a topic today… ok, see the Comments at the bottom of this post. as PediaLibria*)

Given how we were the ones to go with the Teacher/Class scenario, the only reasonable approach with today’s post is to go with ‘the Everything Rule’: occupation/avocation/profession of teacher.

Damn!

We all got an ‘F’ on (our writing/responses) to yesterday’s Post.

Full Disclosure: Had not anticipated our doing such a poor job of presenting the one thing… the one thing, that ever one focus’d on to address in their Comments. What we, your Curator, must now come to grips with is… our reaction to this turn of events. (clarks reading this will, no doubt be typety-typling… “Now don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s only one post.” (or scotts) “Hey! Chill out. It’s only one fuckin’ post among, what 18? lol ok 3,000… but who’s counting?” (or) (rogers) “Hate to tell you this, but it’s not that big a deal. You’re no different than the rest of us. We’ll forgive you.”

ok! direct response: One of the miracles/gifts of the Wakefield Doctrine, (vis á vis being a clark) is that, when it comes to the normal self-consciousness reaction to public failure, (‘we all got an F’) from the first post of this blog, we were been given a pass. (In the words of very early Doctrine posts: ‘Bad post? Write another one. Bury that sucker’)

That said, we totally value/appreciate our correspondent’s time, effort and participation. No matter what.

This occupation per the Everything Rule: clarklike teachers? kindergarten up to mid-elementary/college; scottian teachers? high school phys.ed./shop/vice principle and rogerian teachers: junior high/high school

As to our poorly set-up question yesterday, the one involving addition and such? We suspect that a better way to frame the question would be: 2+2=? Properly done it will distinguish a clark from a roger:

‘What’s two plus two?

scott: (laughing) “You fuckin’ clarks“
roger: “Four!”
clark: “In what context?”

ok recess, binyons

* PediaLibria (Lat. tarsus informalus )

cai:Thank you for giving me a guest appearance.
I meant I have to search for my herd who understand the basics of outbound linking and receiving external links.
Like you mentioned before, anyone has a mix of all three personality traits. I tried to appeal to a trait in there who can take a fancy to a method. :)
I understand the message. For a short time, I was dealing with some realtime ruckus in my corner of woods. Hopefully I can resume reading & commenting again.
Mimi: Two-two, of course. ;)
Misky: Depends. If it’s 2 drops of water plus 2 drops of water then it equals 1 puddle.