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November 2, 2025 By 2 Comments

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

Seeing a lot of New Readers out there.

As soon as we present a description of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, a certain percentage of you New Readers here are gonna be all, ‘Which of those am I? Please, I wanna be a scott they got the moves, they think of fear as a condiment* and a bunch of you, who have delayed moving on to we-are-the-world.com  be all ‘History, what’s not to like?!’

Quick and (damn! I knew it) test/filter:

When you woke up this morning and the day’s demands and promises, threats and enticements began their endless clamoring, did you think of it as ‘dealing with the world out there?’

…Hello! clark. Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine. We’d say, make yourself at home but, a) yeah, sure and 2) yes but no!…mostly clarks here.

Everyone else? You still reading? Then you’re a scott or** you’re a roger and you have (Advanced Concept, don’t worry about it right now), a significant secondary clarklike aspect. No, no! That’s a good thing.

Here are the three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) of the Wakefield Doctrine:

  1. clarks (the Outsider) you’re sure there’s nothing, like, permanently wrong with you. But everyone else seem to know each other on some level or something. You suspect you just zoned out one day when the Human Being Orientation was held. Fortunately, you love learning new things and are sure you’ll discover it sooner or later, but know to totally keep this to yourself
  2. scotts (the Predator) you’re not sure of what you’re supposed to know and you don’t care. The world is all around you now and there’s so much to do… hunt, chase and capture, pretty much says it all. That and when face to face with another Predator fight like hell, get along fine once ranking is established
  3. rogers (the Herd Member) you’re so sure of everything that it’s almost boring. The world is quantifiable, the Rules are…maybe not simple, but straight-forward understandable. And you have a place in it all! Learn every Rule and make sure those around you know them as well.

ohkay!

That’s a good start.

New Raders remaining? We like to provide tuneage (all rights are to those who own them…and thanks!)

 

*true description from a predominant scott.

** sorry, only one predominant worldview to a person. (Advanced Doctrine: It’s all about how you relate yourself to the world around you and the people who make it)

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 27, 2025 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. An exercise in the encouragement and cultivation and imbracchiare* of the psycho-spiritual state of gratitude.

You know, the things that, when they happen (or with the license given contributors for range of subject matter) or are remembered, elicit an response of something along the lines of ‘Well, that didn’t suck!’ or ‘Jeez dodged a bullet on that one!’ or even, ‘I could get used to this, even if I’m not overly deserving of such.’

You get the idea. We’re always grateful for the Hostinae who, with their mature, insightful and non-critical view of this exercise allow us to write all SOC. And, so our List:

 

1) Phyllis

2) Una (as a muy youngito pupina)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Hypo-Grat* change of seasons. (New Readers? Hypo-Grat is a legit Grat to make the List, provided one can find a positive to the person, place, thing or event designated as a hypo-grat

5) photo at top of post? the insidious approach of Anti-Summer. the yellowing of even the damn pine trees!

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Rain. Friday it the weather was… (wait, allow us to look up the correct meteorological term for excessive precipitation…. ah! here ) ‘It rained like a bastard!’  thanks go to our weather scott for that insight lol

8) something, something

9) photos of pond (and dog) …see Grat # 7

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 30, 2025 By

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. Each week we invite all in sight of our words to join us on this exercise in cultivating (the state of) gratitude. The rules are simple: write a post that includes a ‘list’ of ten~ items consisting of the people, places and things that have inspired, suggested, incited and otherwise gave you an elbow-in-the-ribs to notice that they (the people, places and things) of your life weren’t nearly as bad, dangerous, sad or evocative of the safety of bed full of quilts and comforters, as the nasty/negative voice in many of our minds sometimes hear. ya know?

But we digress. The ranks of Hostinae (we thought about a capital ‘R’ for the word ranks but thought it might be a bit much. (Like that ever happens here at the Doctrine! lol). And…and!! While the linkz boilerplate at the bottom is out of date, allow us the Pleasure of introducing the two newest hostinae, Cai and Knitcat.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story this week’s selection (go read, comment and, as always, tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.)

5) Wish I could still write as funny… A line from our WIP ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf an Ian Devereaux mystery:“ kinda cracked me up:

“Is there room in there for me?” Leanne’s morning contralto cut through the rain-hiss of the shower heads like Joe Cocker at an elementary school Christmas pageant.

6) Reached the river/stream (photo at top of Post) with the clearing project that was made possible by the bridge completion project (see last week’s TToT)

7) mowed the front meadow

8) something, something

9) showed a house today, 21st C style with a video link to Buyers on vacay in Iceland. fun

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Monday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine- “We couldn’t have said it better ourselfs…”

August 11, 2025 By

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

“What? Oh yeah, you’re right! We did.”

(Last week we did say something about clarks, intelligence and a concomitant lack of self-consciousness (in the matter of the degree of said intelligence), didn’t we? So today’s subtitle is an excellent example of how this manifested from the earliest of days of this here blog here).

..on with the RePrintage!

be more of a clark? on purpose? are you serious?!? the Wakefield Doctrine

August 14, 2012

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

We all know that:

  • clarks think
  • scotts act
  • rogers feel
(and)  ..we all know that scotts are the confident ones, they are the ones who do not hesitate to act, scotts are the natural leaders and when they shout to the group (and there is always a group around them), when it comes into the head of a scott to move, to act, to do something (because they are bored) and they say,  “Hey!! Lets go this way! (most) people follow immediately, without hesitation or  question.
(and) we all know that rogers are the confident ones, they are the ones who know all about the matter at hand, the whys and the wherefores and most importantly, they know about who else has been/is/or will be involved in the activity that you are curious about, rogers are the organized ones  and when they say, “You should do it this way, (most) people will follow (the directions).
So what about the clarks?
(well) everyone knows that clarks are:
  • possessed of/by/with a really great sense of humor, well  …better make that a rather odd sense of humor
  • a very caring and sensitive person, well …at least once you get to know her and not be put off by the weirdness
  • smart, so smart that its, well  …not smart in terms of grades or day-to-day real life decisions,  but in every otherway!
  • organized, has everything in his head, well organized on some level but if you need to remember something you said last year or the name of the actor in a 23 year old movie!
  • attractive, well not in what you might call the conventional way, but when you see how she offsets the tattoos with the boots and it, somehow ties together, kinda spooky actually
  • creative really more than anyone, well if creative is about the things that never were and will never be,  then you have the right person
  • intuitive, she has a way of, well, I  think she holds back how much she understands
  • weird  well duh!
If you are (still) reading, then you are what we call a scott or a roger or a clark with a certain level of flexible intelligence*… and in an effort to increase the odds that you will continue reading, we will say this:  if you are a scott then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect and if you are a roger, then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect.  As you know, while we all develop as one predominant type (clark or scott or roger ) we always retain the capacity to experience the world as the ‘other two’ types. We call these two types the secondary aspect and the tertiary aspect. They have an effect on how you express your predominant personality type, but that is beyond the scope of this here Post here. Suffice to say, if you are not a (predominant) clark, then your secondary aspect most likely is clarklike because it is the insatiable curiosity and tolerance of the unknown that keeps you reading, despite all your instincts to the contrary.
So about the music that follows… the fun of totally enjoying a song by Bill Monroe, then hearing something like the Fred Hammond tune from yesterday’s Post and then having ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’ come on the radio and smiling for the pure joy of the wonderful and horrifying variety of things to appreciate that is available to you, when you are a clark.

 

*the ability to imagine another damn reality, without getting scared or mad

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 23, 2025 By

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

Comment from Misky to Tuesday’s post.

“Your Scott-side is showing”

lol thanks for the prompt. you are correct(ish)

[n.b. the proper way to express this is: ‘Your scottian (scoe shun) secondary/tertiary aspect is showing’]

For the record, your Curator: a clarklike predominant worldview with a significant secondary scottian and a weak rogerian (roe jeer ian) tertiary aspect.

New Readers: we all live in a reality characterized by one of three relationships with the world around us, i.e. as an Outsider (clarks), a Predator (scott) or a Herd Member (roger). Only one because the relationship is what informs our development (as young children) of strategies and styles of survival and overall interaction with the world around us. A clark does not, however, exhibit the behaviors of avoiding scrutiny or being compulsively curious because they are born with (or otherwise inherit) these traits. These ‘traits’ simply are the best approach to interacting with the world as the Outsider is experiencing it. And, of course, the multiple of behavior that we associate with this predominant worldview. (Hence the 3,000 plus posts.) As do the scotts and the rogers.

That said,  we totally enjoyed the above comment because it reminded us of the early days in this blog. The energies were different. The writing less…polished but more than made up for it by being provocative.

There was a period back then (say, 2012-2014) when triplets were rampant.

ProTip: the validation for the descript trips following is grounded in the nature/character of the response of the person to whom (they) apply.

Example:

 scotts are stupid * rogers are dumb * clarks are crazy *

(loved that one… one of the first that showed the response validation, eg scotts and clarks laugh, rogers get genuinely angry)

or

 scotts are cruel * rogers are mean * clarks are heartless *

 

there ya go

Don’t forget Thursday is Six Sentence Story bloghop day.

 

 

 

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