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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 21, 2026 By 5 Comments

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

Wanna know the hardest thing about reaching a level of fluency1 in the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine?

Seeing young clarks2 out in the everyday world.

Seeing how this post is grounded in a emotional experience this morning, allow us to give the setting/setup.

For grocery shopping since ‘the Covid’ we’ve taken advantage of the local Stop’n Shop service of bringing the groceries to the car. Today we parked in one of the designated pickup spaces outside the main entrance. Picture a row perpendicular from the entrance, spaces opposite each other; a double row of cars, if you will. From where we were parked we had a direct view of the doors in and out. Fine. Usually the person who brings out the foodstuffs knows us and where we always park.

Today the person who wheeled the shopping cart out to the pickup area was a young male clark. Likely age: high school senior, college freshman*.

Thing about this morning was that in the pickup row there was one other car. And as it happened it was opposite mine. (Picture front bumper to front bumper).

The first thing (as he approached) was the look on the young man’s face: not fear, but concern at making the correct call as to which car was the one for the order he was delivering.

The last thing (as he finished his task) was the look on the young man’s face: not satisfaction, but relief.

(btw: upon my recognizing he was a clark and before he had to commit (to a car) I opened the trunk and waved. that’s the fluency thing. We identified him as soon as he stepped out through the automatic doors.)

Damn.

Sure, clarks think (and scotts act and rogers feel) does not mean that clarks don’t feel but, while we are free with emotions in the context of friends, the experience of seeing a clark exhibiting some of the less admirable qualities and …and! totally identifying with them can make us feel comfortable. If only the Wakefield Doctrine was available by private subscription to young clarks out there in their early, formative years.

 

1) fluency in the Doctrine: a level where you can ‘identify’ the other two without having to run a check list or otherwise compare observed behavior with examples of predominant worldview specific style of interacting with the world

2) the Wakefield Doctrine is, of course, gender neutral (among other qualities i.e. age, culture etc). How a person relates to the world around them is, in the most fundamental sense, as a lifeform first, then the other qualities. That said, there can be a heightened sense of identification with one who is the same personality type and the same gender.

* given he was a clark, the age range can be extended, say to college sophomore or… junior. Extra credit for anyone who can tell the New Readers why this age range is extended upwards rather than backwards

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Tuesady -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 16, 2026 By

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

So! You’ve done your reading. You now have a rudimentary sense of the identifying behaviors, social styles, fashion choices of the three predominant worldviews.

We enjoy the analogy (or parable or metaphonics…whichever, you know what we mean) of the Wakefield Doctrine as a language. This does not supplant the view of the Doctrine as an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. That is still the…official position advocated in these pages. The thing of it is, any perspective would have, attendant, a vocabulary (and. strictly speaking), a vernacular. And so you will see references to fluency in the Wakefield Doctrine. This reflects the ease and facility one may demonstrate when describing a person/situation. “She showed up at her interview at the bank with enough cosmetic metal and leather to trigger the metal detectors at the door. Her take away was, in part, ‘shoulda gone with the blue accents in hair to convey a calm demeanor’. She was such a clark.” Like that, except fluency permits a level of accuracy in observation of the situation and person vis á vis the Doctrine, in realtime.

As with any reputable language school, the best way to move up in comprehension, pronunciation and… (cough sound: <Misky>1) and grammar. Tomorrow we’ll beat deceased equine by suggesting common social settings to better practice the semi- lingua franca of the Wakefield Doctrine.

fun!

Where were we?

oh yeah, relying on our clarklike confidence to avoid either: a) backing our ownselfs into a corner or 2) looking silly.

Exactly! The three qualities beyond reproach in the three predominant worldviews (personality types) of the Doctrine:

  1. clarks (Outsider) soundness of intellectual capability. no, not how ‘smart’ or even intelligent. A fundamental faith in the sufficiency of intellect.
  2. scotts (Predators) total efficacy in judgement of (a) need for action
  3. rogers (Herd Members) rightness and virtue inextricably linked to one’s view of the world

 

Thanks and a shout out to Misky for gracing us with a very useful example (and illustration) of Doctrine-specific wordage.

1) what? who said that? no, there are no stupid questions* While the Doctrine famously maintains that ‘you can’t get it wrong’, we would be remiss in our duties to not help Students and Friends of the Doctrine avoid simple errors of vocabulary, grammar and syntax and the like. In this case, our scottian friend is leaving the zero derivation stick in the workshop when it comes to the substantive scott. or something. ex. By virtue of my self-admitted predominant worldview, I can say, “As a clark, well, I just did, didn’t I?” It is, however, considered improper use of Doctrine lexicon to say, “As a clarklike, I am the butt of…” no, not snickers and muffled laughter… wait, that is plausible. If, however, the speaker in this increasingly tenuous if not clumsy example were a scott, …well, less fun-making and more sidelong glances towards the exits on the part of those in our imaginary lecture hall.

* one of our favorite jokes from the early, carefree days of the blog, to wit: ‘There are no stupid questions. There are only your questions

 

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 23, 2026 By

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Each week a number of exceptionally skilled and talented bloggers gather here and link in a list (or interpretive rhetoric or any format their individual creative impulses may demand) on the topic of gratitude. Not as simple and/or simplistic as it may sound. After all, ‘gratitude’ is one of the more elusive frames-of-mind available to any of us. And, not for nothin’, way beneficial.

The following is a list of the things that have elicited a state/awareness-of this state of gratitude for us

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Hostinae (and Andrew): Mimi, cai, Misky, Denise, Kristi, Dyanne, Lisa, Knitcat and Andrew they provide that one quality that all successful bloghops must possess, community.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) our late-March, early-April weather was interrupted by a couple of days of ‘oh, so this is what a late-May nice day felt like...to our parents‘. lol

7) front meadow update (yes, new addition with the sunflowers see Grat #9 below)

8) something, something

9) oh, yeah… new sunflowers (a lotta pressure on them Helianthus annuus least round in these parts) err the round, yellow things to the left of the sidewalk

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules aka Secret Book of Rules. specifically, the approaching completion of one’s list of Grats is, in point of fact, a legitimate item for said list.

 

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 20, 2026 By

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

RePrint?

sure, why the heck not?

(oh yeah!  before this shortcut: the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us based on our relationship (since, like right from the start life) with it there are three of (these) and the one you have based your social strategies and interactional styles of behavior upon is your personality type (aka predominant worldview) you only have time to learn/practice one and while the ‘other two’ ways to relate to the world remain as potential, one is all you gots, luckily, it’s the perfect personality type based on the personal reality you exist in (and have, since you was babies) clarks are Outsiders not to be confused with introverts, but to be fair, lets say during our young school years, we summered in Spectrum-ville, (lol); scotts are Predators full of life and determined to ride all the rides, they will nip at your hells and be at your side for the climatic showdown all guns a-blazing while laughing the scottian female will totally have a derringer and maybe a knife (or two) with wicked martial/marital skills (“We’re surrounded, one chance. Now go!! I got this!!!”) and rogers of Members of the Herd so certain you’d think (or chose) to believe what they say, but the thing is it’s not what they say, it’s what they know that’s important, ready to be reliable, often distracted/offended by the novel, they will surely be remembered by their works if not their thoughts.)

 

ok, we promised a RePrint

… no, you’re absolutely correct how the above all ee cummings manual of style (ish) is sufficient

the coolest thing about the Doctrine is that you already know what you need to know to take advantage of it’s curious organization of views of the world.

one thing: the Wakefield Doctrine, while possessed of the glorious ambition to allow us to see the world as the other person is experiencing it, is not for everyone.

the Wakefield Doctrine (and it’s perspective) is for you, not them.

 

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 18, 2026 By

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

It’s Complicated

You wouldn’t understand

You’re different, this doesn’t apply

Life is not so neat and organized

Sure, it’s clever but to be genuinely useful it’s fairly under-validated

Derivative, been done

People simply don’t fit into so limited a taxonomic scheme

Everyone will laugh

Life doesn’t fit into three categories

What were they again? (clarks, scotts and rogers)

And the basis of this paper-doll phylogeny? (one’s relationship with the world)

Stop it, now.

There’s no way you’re going to backwards-answer the above statements and bring it to a conclusion. (no, not if you maintain that attitude)

An additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. The Wakefield Doctrine is not the Answer. It is a question. As such, you are responsible for the product of its application to your life.

One thing: a) you can’t get it wrong 2) you can’t break it.

It’s not for everyone. Not everyone enjoys the constructive make-believe that is hidden (all too effectively for most) in the world.

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