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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 27, 2026 By 2 Comments

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

As an additional perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up), the Wakefield Doctrine is both fun, useful and to some, quite productive.

Using this perspective, not only will you know more about the other person than they know about themselves, you’ll be in a position to see the world as they are experiencing it.

Here’s a fun insight: even though we, (the Curator of this here personality theory here), know your predominant worldview, (to a degree of certainty approaching, ‘no, really you’re totally a …’), this second point about how the other person is experiences the world makes it a lead-pipe cinch.

So what?

Think about it.

You’re still reading.

So let’s eschew the obvious statement and go to the more subtle inference.

If you’re a clark* you recognize this thing of ours. You’ve have one since…well, since the question will be posed by a Reader who is not a clark, early, early childhood. It’s not so much an ambition, (the belief you can understand the world and your place in it**), as fashioning a life raft from the flotsam and jetsam (totally sine spe recuperandi) in the clearly way-to-far-out-to-see-a-shoreline place you find yourself in (while a child).

This is why certain people who come here once and then return do not need Cliff Notes, instructions or a User’s Manual. It’s just like their own (sometimes better, more complete or… (we really hope) funnier.)

ok, lets skip to the chase: the one thing about this blog for one of the three predominant worldviews? it confirms the existence (and not to get melo on ya… the survival and success) of others like theyselves.

Secondary clarks? toolkit baby, a set of Ersa nails, the secret code to the locker room, the formula for momentary invisibility and a social-psychological turbo (good for short bursts) suitable for chasing adept prey and lazy but advanced predators.

 

 

*ja ja, yeah, right… if you’re posing a doubt or counter-argument that’s just your secondary rogerian aspect.

** beyond your not being like everyone else, the ‘real’ people in your life

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 25, 2026 By 8 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop! April Membership Drive closes in 29 days! Hurry

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the most current yard project

6) state of the front Meadow

7) state of the side Meadow

8) Hypo-grat:  the weather/temperature(s) have been seasonally-appropriate… for early March! (lol) New Readers: one caveat on the inclusion of these ‘negative’ people, places, things and events is that to be counted they must conform to Mimi’s Rule*. So, the mid-forties in daytime temp has slowed the Spring Break for the Multi-legged population in the woods. As a result we can focus on the the work of pulling weeds and clearing garden-like areas without being scared indoors by the pitter pat (actually more pitterpitter8 argghh I love eyeballs!!!! of the arachnid set… SpringBREAK!!!!!!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)  this, SR 1.3, is the admonition to place any (and all) cited rules (and exceptions and notes of feet) in the final Grat. Because otherwise, it wouldn’t make any sense.

 

* what do you say you head over and ask her, yourown-self? She won’t bite. (as opposed to virtually every single lifeform out there in the…outdoors, ‘ceptin’ a’course (most of) the humans)

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Mid-week/Pre-Six -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 22, 2026 By 2 Comments

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

think of this post as part: Doctrine Fermi Paradox (and part): a tree (or twenty trees) can fall in the forest, the villagers will sleep like baby muskrats…Post

New Readers: a little Insider Insigh -formation. When we started writing this blog we had a certain degree of finger-paint mentality. We knew that what we wrote was good. But, well, finger-painting.

So thirty-six hundred posts later… here we are doing the first thing we learned about writing a less-than ehh-not-what-we-meant post, i.e. writing another post.

To resist the clarklike drive to explain stuff, lets review what the most recent exchange of posts/Comments/Reply(s) has offered:

  • the pertinent idea/avenue of insight in the original Comment/Reply exchange: as organized and logical this personality theory might appear, at first blush, understanding and making use of the Wakefield Doctrine is as much art as science
  • despite this, while there is something of the ‘vamp until ready’* in many of our posts (intended to instigate discussions of the appreciation, use and meaning of the principles of the Doctrine), there is order/stability/structure to the actual theory (of clarks, scotts and rogers)
  • fortunately for us, there is an innate integrity to this ‘additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up’ that allows every insight/interaction/inference inspired by employing the perspective to be useable and useful
  • students and masters alike enjoy a benefit uniquely tailored to their level of appreciation and (individual) predominant worldview

So, our thanks to Mimi and Denise and Misky. These conversations (ha ha, pick your own level of ‘I beg your pardon! I thought this was all quite polite and proper a blog post, I’ve never…!’ use of the word.

So for any New Readers (still reading): there are three characteristic relationships with the world around us; we each adopt one at an early age; this forms the context for our personal and social development (i.e. personality type). They, (all three), are complimentary but not interchangeable or otherwise swapped out at will. (That’s called mental illness). These three are called:

  1. clarks (the Outsider) not an introvert, that’d be intellectual laziness. a clark is the eternal Outsider and their defining characteristic is a need to learn (often mis-understood as ‘understanding’) about the world around them. good-hearted to a fault, un-naturally afraid of scrutiny and, of the three, the only truly creative personalty (as in bringing into existence that which did not exist before)
  2. scotts (the Predator) manifests the drive to survive and continue. the scott is the life (of the party, the effort, the push forward)… natural leaders (scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain). the Future is forced to concede to the Present because of scotts. they are creative by virtue of the force of their personality: “Hey! This is new. You like it/are impressed by it…right!!!?
  3. rogers (the Herd Member) that there is a culture that endures, a civilization that advances the human race and provides indoor plumbing is courtesy of the Members of the Herd. They maintain continuity because, for the Herd Member, the world/the universe is a quantifiable place. The creativity of their reality is a  talent for novel re-assembly of elements that exist in the everyday world, which, unsurprisingly results in their popularity in the arts.

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 21, 2026 By 6 Comments

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

Man, Misky is on a roll! (No, there is no such thing as ‘too many apples on one’s desk, thank you very much’)

To her thought experiment:

I’d like to test a theory, please. Is there a rogerian genre of music? I could listen to Einar Selvik all day, and I often do, but I think this might be a scottian thing.

To prime the rhetorical pump, our Reply:

interesting idea.

(Allow me to be the strict Doctrinairien first: there are genre of music that will appeal to one predominant worldview more than the other two in a noticeable way. And, since I’ve never taken being strict to much to heart, there is the question of ‘is music created/composed by a clark/scott/roger distinguishable by virtue of composer’s personality type?’)

damn! (and thanks) your suggestion is totally deserving of a full AP level Wakefield Doctrine post.

in the meantime, an exercise: what do you think/what’s it make you want to do/how does it make you feel? its being this Einar Selvik’s music

ProTip: if one is inclined to explore oneself for the purposes of better self-appreciation, using the Doctrine is a fun way… this exercise, which can be found in most instances of taking up the alternate perspective of everyone’s favorite personality theory and use it illuminate parts of ourselfs that we usually don’t take the time to consider…

ok!

Before we start, anyone want to jump in?

Mimi:

It’s been such a long day I’m not so sure I’m following everything well. Maybe tomorrow.

(Saturday Morning Cartoon screeching car-tire sound: Here)

Thank you Mimi

Thank you Misky (for your patience in our less than maximally-focused Reply to (your) Primary Comment)

 

Hey! You wanna hear one of the lesser promoted benefits of learning the principles of this Wakefield Doctrine thing?

If you open yourself to it sufficiently to acquire a functional understanding, it (the Doctrine) will have an effect on you.

What? We forgot to tell you that?

No we didn’t.

(ish)

Just the other day, Denise, in her contribution to the TToT, Replied to a Comment by Ms. Pie who had mentioned how interesting a certain personality theory was (Hint: it rhymes with Wakefield Doctrine). By way of passing along one of the original Warnings to New Readers: ‘If you learn the Wakefield Doctrine sufficiently enough to allow seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in your own life, you may find that you are unable to not see them, in your everyday life.’

Good advice indeed.

What does this have to with our point? Think: Re-do All the Exam Questions Upon Hearing: ‘Five More Minutes, People’?

Simple.

If you’re a clark (or a scott or a roger with a sufficiently strong secondary clarklike aspect) then you have a drive to make sense of the world around you and the people who make it up.

So you go through your day applying the three lenses (the relationship each of the three predominant worldview maintain), to those in your life. Fine. At some point you’ll observe someone who has the same ‘personality type’ as you and… a moment after your cringe/laugh/sneer it will occur to you…

but we’ve said too much already. .

 

ed. we will return to Misky’s thought experiment as soon as we get back into concise, clear and direct mode’

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 20, 2026 By 11 Comments

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

Quick! Readers!!! Call it.

Heads: RePrint

Tails: New content.

…on three

Thanks out to Misky. She called heads and we flipped our specially-minted Schrödinger twenty-five cent piece and…

So, yesterday (and the day before, in spirit if not in fact) a discussion sprang into life as a result of Misky’s Comment:

…which leads me to wonder about metaphorical ‘appetite’ like an appetite for learning, or adventure, risk, life, speed, etc. and whether those appetites fall under a scottian umbrella. I’m mostly thinking to myself here because I’m leaning toward ‘yes, yes they do.’

To which we replied:

the fun of using behavioral metaphors (as in the Wakefield Doctrine) is that it is predicated on a person having ‘an ear’ (not musical sound but for rhetoric and rhetorical deviceseses) of course the scottian predominant worldview (relating to the world as would a Predator) includes the unrestrained appetite… especially when in contrast with the price humankind pays in terms of the conveniences of modern culture… (rhymes with rogerian)

does that mean that scotts have to have the unsubtle appetite of a lion on the savannah with a pack to provide for?

yes. yes it does!
lol

the fun and value of metaphors is (imo): life and reality being but a serial story… metaphor is developed to allow insight beyond a culture’s current vocabulary (or would that be glossary? whatevs) so metaphor is both language, writing pad, pencil and big-assed eraser (the good kind, the blond, squarish slightly crumbly type that all grade school kids wanted and rarely had)…

ya know?

So, now that we’ve had a Reader step up and break the ice on Self-Conscious Pond, would anyone else care to offer an insight/opinion/guess/conjecture or ‘what-it-this’?

If this helps: the Wakefield Doctrine insists on two things:

  • there are three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) they (all three) are a function of the character of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them starting at the youngest of ages. We all grow up and develop our style/strategy for interacting with the world as we experience it. As a result, those of us who learn and enjoy this little theory can rest assured we have the perfect personality.
  • the Everything Rule maintains that everyone does everything, at one time or another. which is to say, the three personality types (of the Wakefield Doctrine) are in fact in the same reality. anything one might think applies to one, applies to the other two. it is simply manifested differently, according to the relationship the person we are talking about maintains with the world
  • only one predominant worldviews to a person (secondary and tertiary aspects having an passing effect is valid)

so to our Friend of the Doctrine’s Comment, consider how ‘appetite’ manifests in the three

  • clarks (the Outsider) discreet sips/prodigious needs
  • scotts (the Predator) more fun when it gets on everyone
  • rogers (the Herd Member) I beg your pardon, one simply must consider not only the arrangement and setting but the very Menu, there is, after all, a Right Way

Weigh in as you would

 

 

 

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