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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 21, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Hey, we were thinking about the Doctrine this morning. (lol*)

Like everything in life, the Wakefield Doctrine has developed over the years, primarily in how it is expressed and explained and illustrated and such.. And…and! though we haven’t had as many radical insights, break-through understanding in the experience of reality by the three predominant worldviews as in the early days, well, to paraphrase Joe, “If I knew I’d be writing this for the rest of my life…”

The thing of it is, we, all of us, experience the world from the perspective of one, (and only one), of the three predominant worldviews. As an Outsider (clark), a Predator (scott) or a Herd Member (roger). That said, we do not lose the potential of ‘the other two’.

For example: We have a significant secondary scottian aspect. That means, there are times, (especially in conditions of stress), when we relate to the world as would a Predator (scott)… you know, all teeth, not the slightest hint of considered reflection…

New Readers? If you’ve been doing your homework, you will know that ‘scotts act, rogers feel and clarks think’.

Secondary aspects tend to be situational and all. We’re still an Outsider when the emergency is over and ‘we get back’

Lets wrap up this train wreck with the point we were making about our paraphrase of Mr. Walsh. We are a clark with a secondary scottian aspect.

to be cont’d

* ikr? when are we ever not…

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 20, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Finally! The end of such a long and trying year! That would have been the fourth worst… maybe the seventh, not counting 1979, of course.

What?

You’d rather we do our lexical limbering with a RePrint?

…ok, ok.

But, before we do that here’s a quick, totally-free, so-fricken-useful insight into the three, (clarks, scotts and rogers), personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. So, the next person you encounter in a stable situation (i.e. not about to move into next-to-final-person in the line, nor just you make your move on the first date (alternate: initiate jump-start protocol on 3rd date), pose the following question, (prefacing with ‘This is not a trick or anything embarrassing, just the first answer that pops in your head):

“How much is 2 plus 2?”

You’re welcome.

Your friends at the most-fun, crazy useful perspective on the world and the people who make it us are happy to provide you with a tool to aid in the identification of the predominant worldviews, (that of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member), and, depending on your own personality type, your own*.

* kind of a trick answer there… your predominant worldview will not only determine the utility of this little metaphysical bon mot, it will answer (for one of the three) the question, “I wonder if anyone else is as weird as…”

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 17, 2025 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

This is the 2,390th post offered in the tenure of the Wakefield Doctrine since being asked to be a co-host. (Who said that? Excellent idea. We shall post, as Grat Number 5 the first Doctrine TToT post.)

Shall we proceed?

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) technology cum work-required photation: the Grat about this photo of an attic in one of my properties? Glad you asked! We did a ‘scary’ Six this week, hoping to produce the appropriate emotional response, i.e. scary house. It was actually a number of years ago, when I a had a number of old, vacant houses to inspect every week, that the concept of scary old house came up. We are brought up as children to have a respect, if not fear haunted houses. Mostly because, in theory, they might be home to ghosts and/or other inimical beings. So I would have fun (on these inspections with a ‘What if there’s a spirit or monster in this property?’ Alas, the innocence of childhood. The true horror to be encountered in a putative haunted house, for an adult (and, we include ourselfs, for the purpose of the narrative) is far worse than banshees and werewolves, it is so mundane. Approaching the stairs in the photo, hearing a sound and catching our toe on the insulation (white stuff)… that is the scary thing. To lie paralyzed at the bottom of the stairs in a vacant house, real horror.

This is a Grat on this week’s list because: a) we enjoyed writing about childhood and 2) We didn’t trip on the insulation

5) putative first post by the Doctrine to this here bloghop here. June 7 1913

6) Return of a wandering hostinae, Readers surely took note of Kristi’s return at the beginning of the week this week. Welcome Back. (New Readers: she is one of the original Hostinae chosen by Hallowed-be-The-Founderina’s-Name…) back in, the records are… imprecise, lets call it 1967 just to err on the side of caution.

7) the Six Sentence Story blohop.

8) the Unicorn Challenge Picked’ ‘corn of the week:

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [ an Ian Devereaux Six]

January 15, 2025 By clarkscottroger 16 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise. defined by a single number: 6 (the exact number of sentences in qualified stories)

Prompt Word:

POOL

“Anyone here?”

A languid slapping of liquid against an unyielding object combined with shimmering reflections on the half-round ceiling did nothing to improve my mood; my admin’s insistence I treat the text requesting a meeting in an out-of-service rail tunnel as spam and a waste of time somehow sparked an argument, maybe the third in the five years Hazel has worked for me.

“I’m here per your text and, I might add, not in the mood to fuck around;”

hearing my vulgarity hang in the darkness triggered a flashback to the fourth grade at Our Lady of Mercy parochial school, my humorless laugh, an atavistic response to the nearing of the uncanny did nothing to offset the chill raising the hair on the back of my neck.

My cell phone pinged ‘Text Messages’, even as my resolve began to pool around my feet; it’s been my experience that genuine fear doesn’t walk up and shout ‘Boo’, rather, it seeps into the body and a weakness of the leg muscles are it’s only tell.

Looking down into the display, I scrolled through the messages: “Are you coming in today, H’ …” “OK you’re a great boss, but two days without a word…” and, “Now you’re scaring me, no one has seen you for three days, the cops are useless, I’m going down to the sleazy bar of yours, maybe they know what’s going on”.

I decided that my admin deserved a raise and I would turn and walk back the way I came, halfway there I heard a voice coming from farther to my left than the diameter of the tunnel should permit, “We need to talk.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 14, 2025 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Lets get started.

The narrative of this post, while veering in theme, execution and style like a Dodge Coronet full of teenagers on a back country road during their first ‘the-parent’s-first-weekend-away… in other words, hurry-up lets see where that road leads.

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It proposes that there are three personality types:

clarks who maintain the relationship exemplified by the psycho-social term: Outsider. Not introvert, not really shy… just cautious. You know, refuse definition and you can never fail.
scotts the most natural of the three, think Predator. Without the connotations of confidence without reflection, aggressiveness minus accountability and sheer exuberance for life. (ok. may a little of those three)
rogers the foundation of society, culture and human advancement courtesy of being a Member of the Herd. Without the majority of humans falling into this category and it’s innate drive to analyze, quantify and organize, our cars would be of a certain quality, (as Johnny Bond might describe) ‘The brakes are good, the tires fair” and our libraries’ checkout desk would be automated to the point of total anonymity .

Anyway. This is the core of the Wakefield Doctrine. Three personality types. …because there are three ways to relate to the world that we, as very young children discover as we develop our social style and strategies. We never lose the potential of ‘the other two’ they can have an influence.

The thing of the Doctrine is, if we grow up in a certain personal reality, (the aforementioned character-of-relationship), then we all have the best personality type! (You knew there was going to be at very least a ‘but’ and in this case, also an ellipses) …given the character of the world we experience.

Damn! Running out to time!

What we started out with was: Hey! I remember that book series (the All About Books)! That said, if you read even one more post on the three personality types and can’t identify which of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) treasured the concept of this YA series, then… maybe we could interest you in a website such as: ‘www.Guns ‘n Dames’ or ‘http.Fly-Fishing for the Modern Man’

…wait. just.a. minute!

This: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral. The system applies to human beings, (and, sometimes, to dogs), but there is no distinction, qualifier, modification of the three types based on any further description.

The insights and advantages afforded one who learns the principles to a sufficient degree (what we refer to as ‘fluency’) are not mirror shaped clubs, with which to assault friends and loved ones, (‘Honey? Come take this test, they have you down to a ‘T’“)

The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

Well, that gives us plenty of loose ends and trailing narrative to jump-start the next six posts.