Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…end of work-week wrap-up”

March 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Well, that was fun! (This week’s installment in the Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, that is.) Plus we had Comments from FoTD, Cynthia and Misky, Mimi and Denise.

So… Friday, huh?

note the date. After reading the Post, we looked above the Welcome to.. and thought, damn… in the ’20s. Then, like an apologetic childhood monster from fever dreams (back when/at an age getting your temperature was so not as easy as today),the sound of multiplication tables moved up the 1:00 am hallway, (which, at his point in the dream by virtue of the malign manipulation of time, space and fear had become at least 100 yards long to the closest non-threatening bedroom)… Math sez, it sez, “I hate to be the one to tell you this (“My god!! Math is a roger!!!)… but that was Six Years (carry the zero) Ago.”

Well, we will work on this week’s TToT and peek around the corner of this Friday.

Damn! Fridays used to mean something. It had a Power, like a benign despot, promising things it had no right to convey, yet as a citizen of the world of ‘what will be will be’… we accepted it. In return for a sense of …. the world making sense.

I repeat, Damn! No wonder we find time travel such a productive vehicle when creating fiction.

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 11, 2020

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

There’s an old saying, “Fridays are the Monday-mornings of living a full and satisfying life.”

Why the love-hate relationship between clarks and the most looked-forward-to day of the workweek?

Consider that your homework.

New Readers! While our subscriptioneers get busy organizing their notes, and make sure they have enough yellow-highlights, clear-plastic rulers, No.2 pencils and, to be ready to take the assignment-completion-process up to the next level, a supply of three-by-five index cards; (Of course, there’s a cork board and little colored pins!), lets go for a quick tour of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine starts out with three different (yet intricately interrelated) predominant worldviews. ‘Predominant worldview’ is the preferred term denoting personal reality writ large. While scraping the guardrails in terms of a distinction between what an individual’s subjective reality is and the proposition that the whole, yeah, everything, world that is considered ‘reality’, knowing the differences between the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine are essential to deriving the benefits of this unique, fun and quite useful perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.*

We’re born with the possibility of having one, (of three), predominant worldviews being established (the the ‘other two’ becoming secondary), and thereby being our ‘reality’. It (the predominant worldview) shapes, influences and serves as the context in which we develop the tools and strategies that shape our subsequent relationship with life …and such.

The three are:

the reality of the Outsider(clarks)

the world of the Predator(scotts)

the life of the Herd Member(rogers)

If discussed in terms of personality types, the above are the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. For the Doctrine, personality type is not an assignment or a categorization based on a how many of a number of predetermined characteristics, traits or inclinations an individual demonstrates. Personality type is, for the Wakefield Doctrine, a description of how a person relates themselves to the world around them.

Learn the characteristics of the three, ask the question: “How is this person/how am I relating themselves/myself to the world around?”

The cool and fun part is the accuracy of the descriptions of the three ways to relate to the world.

There’s a bunch more to learn, but…. today is Friday. So have fun on the weekend.

* total, long-running, and favorite play-on-words here at the Doctrine… (and a totally obtuse reference to the ideas on reality as Carlos Castaneda so elegantly presented in his writings, i.e. reality is perception and the players contribute to the script, to mix as many metaphors and rhetorical devices as possible… ya know?)

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Tutor Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

As abundantly clear by this post’s primary image, today is Tutor Tuesday. Implicit in this somewhat aged cultural reference is an age requirement which you are encouraged to ignore. That said, for max amusement, your birthday must not only be from the 19oos, it must be the mid-1900s for you to attend.

As with most of our better Doctrine Posts* today’s is prompted by Friend of the Doctrine, Misky who responded to Monday’s Post with the Comment:

I’m not afraid of being incorrect. Wrong is a different kettle of fish. My answer; final answer is the girl is a Clark. That was the question, right? Hmmm … maybe I should re-read this. Nah.

Shall we begin?

…oh yeah, did we mention this is an Open Book, and…and I believe we also said in our Reply something about Self-Grading. oh yeah… any effort to determine a stranger’s predominant worldview is invaluable practice…

We’re totally sincere in the saying that, despite how aggravating it may have been to certain among us, back in school daze to see the Exam Notation: SHOW YOUR WORK. We totally embrace that directive. It is in hearing the ‘Why’ a person feels the subject is a clark or a scott or a roger not only enhances our understanding but it’s just pretty much the fun of this exercise.

New Reader! In case there is a roger among you who snuck into this AP class; one word: ‘No, if everyone’s opinion of the predominant worldview is equal, that does not mean that any/every Answer is possessed of equal validity.’

The cool thing about the Wakefield Doctrine and it’s use is that it is entirely self-correcting. If you ‘get it wrong’ then the benefits inherent in the application of it’s principles (not the least of which is: to know more about the other person than they know about themselves) simply are not there to enjoy. Usually such a person decides this stupid thing doesn’t work anyway and they wander off. Not a problem. For the rest of us? If we hear a scott or a roger cite evidence for the determination of a person’s predominant worldview, (in this case the photo yesterday) it is to our benefit. After all, we’re a clark and they are not. quid pro quo non serviam. I learn about their personal reality. Win Win, binyons!

Wait!! Wait!! Before we begin what we’re sure to be a spirited discussion in the Comments section we have a visitor! An alumnae, if you will from the distant Before Time. We’d be the entirely gracious and organized Narrator if we offered her background, maybe offer a link or two to posts in the Archives, but given her predominant worldview¹, kinda coals to Newcastle. Jennifer? Jennifer Katherine Wilson? (the blogger formerly known as Miz AKH)

* a post written to explore, explain, extrapolate and otherwise enjoy the core principles of the Wakefield Doctrine**

** which can be succinct’d down to: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

‘though we’d expect ever one here to embrace the preferred politeness of ‘One simply does not state another’s predominant worldview, at least not unless they have already self-identified or it is, otherwise, general and/or common knowledge.’

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 16, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

So, what with the wild social adventures of the weekend (well, technically, it was Friday… (and early evening…. (and we were to meet (for the surprise party at 5:00 pm… (yeah, that is kinda the afternoon… ( but the late afternoon… (and the surprise(d) guest didn’t arrive until, like 6:oo (and being cloudy it was semi-dark [go ahead and provide your own closed parenthesiseseses…]

Permit us to 1st coffee this ~~intonemen~~t installment* with a RePrint

it wasn’t my intention to eavesdrop, but there a guy sat, two stools away

May 26, 2010

I was meaning to tell you about the success of the Post that came out Monday but we got side tracked by that “24” thing. (btw, talking with DownSpring#1 right after hitting ‘Publish’, yesterday morning. She say the night before was the Season Finale of that very show. Ain’t synchronicity grand?)

Anyway, we are declaring the Monday Post (…”hey, did anyone else just hear something”… ) a complete success, as the only Readers that wrote a Comment in response to it were scotts. Since the goal was to write for (one of the three specifically) and scotts were my target, then its…”A is for apple, binyons”.

But alas,that is not the topic today. Today the topic is:…”you really want to know how seriously we take this Wakefield Doctrine?”
The photo above on this page…came across it by random, probably a part of an ad for some genealogical service that is so pervasive on the ‘net. Anyway, saw the picture, about to click forward, but then thought came into my brain, “alright, what (or more appropriately, who ) do have here in the family portrait?”
The answer: 3 scotts, 2 rogers and 1 clark.
Even though this Post is supposed to be about rogers, stop at this point, take a minute, look at the photo and pick out the clark. (Hint: no, not him, close, nice guess, but nothim…keep tryin).
(At this point I would ask you to write a Comment, but I don’t think you will. Afraid of being wrong, I hear. I understand…even though you are telling yourself that this blog is funny and maybe this particular Post is all really silly… you are still afraid of looking stupid. I do understand, I realize that you are not afraid of me responding to your Comment with something like: ” Here is a stupid answer”, that is not what you are afraid of. What you know would be awful would be a follow-up Comment such as: “…now here is a good effort…unfortunately missed by this much”. Now that would hurt. So I do not expect any Comment, it is not that important, seeing how I do sort of know what you are thinking… (no, I really do know…) (hey, sorry, don’t care if you believe me or not, just the way it is), go ahead…don’t let the cursor hit you in the ass on your way out! lol)

So rogers are all over this picture (above). Rogers love the family units, or more precisely, they love the idea of tradition and history. The photo shows history and implies history, and the people are the herd. This will be the Wakefield Doctrine lesson for the day. The question is not why the herd, that would be like asking why does the night follow the day, answer: hey, it just does.
The useful question is: if the herd is the most important thing (to a roger) then how does one make a roger want to do things. As we saw in Monday’s Post, there is a way to speak to scotts that will not only be heard by the scott, but will be irresistible. (Damn, not being clear, sorry).
Let’s try this: you have all heard about the supersonic whistles that only dogs can hear, right? Well not only can they hear them when you cannot, but they (the dogs) cannot resist them. Blow on the sucker and Fido is all, “OK OK what? WHat do you Want?! Are we gonna do something? HUH?! HUH? (picture Warner Brothers/Jack Russell-type…hell with that, picture the dog below bouncing 3 feet in the air over and over in front of you..)

…I know…I know and I apologise! How the heck did we get back to those scotts? This was to be a Doctrine lesson on the herd and rogers, instead we are looking at photos of dogs. Pretty damn cute though, no? And sincere. That is what dogs do so well, they are sincere and direct, not an ounce of artifice in their bodies. Now at this point, cat people might say that dogs are kinda simpletons, non-ambitious, not nearly as cool as cats are…well, write a Comment and I might take your opinion into consideration. Back to the scotts, people are drawn to them for the same qualities, the directness and un-complicatedness. Unlike rogers.

I think I have driven around in supermarket cart type circles quite long enough for one Post. If you are a new Reader, check some of the featured Posts or even the Archived Posts (In the “Read ’em and Sleep” pulldown, over to the right there, under the map). That’s the whole magilla, Wakefield Doctrine-wise.

* without doubt funnier and more skilled writers have expressed the total fuckin, civilization-ending cultural Trojan Horse of ‘autocorrect’ by now, but serially, how could even a machine believe we meant to apologize with a song!?!?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

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

Each week the word goes out that there is a standing invitation to bloggers and other writerly-inclined people to link their list of the 10 (+-) people, places, things and/events that inspired the feeling of gratitude in them. There are no limits or requirements in terms of time or space (of the cited Grats) just the spirit of good intent. Go!!! Bulldogs!!

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Doctrine as a topic of conversation last night. Attended a birthday party for a friend. Among the guests, work-friends of hers I didn’t know. At one point, the guest-of-honor said to the group, “I’ve tried to explain the Wakefield Doctrine to the people at work. not sure if I done it right.” At this point the group goes silent, kinda looking at me. Then someone (from the work friends) said, “You explained it fine. I just don’t see which I am,” and turned her attention on me. (Spoiler Alert: I could see she was a roger). So I let the silence grow and said, “That’s all right. I do.” and said nothing more. (lol)

6) technology (subset: video clips to insert that say better what we’re thinking than is possible given our limited abilites)

7) Other Doctrine-related insights from last night’s social occasion. It wasn’t until this morning. when we were talking about the evening, that I realized there were only two scotts in attendance. And, looking back I realized they sat as far from each other as possible. Damn! How cool is this personality theory of ours. [scotts upon meeting another scott will challenge each other for the purposes of establishing ranking and then divide up the territory (and resident prey lol). Alpha gets first choice, of course.

8) something, something

9) vicarious gratation* MIa with her head in the snow. of course!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word,

vids

(forgive us for lacking the skill to effectively write an intro to this music that follows. We still have the endlessness of the current winter in mind when we thought, ‘the Vienna Young Girl’s Chamber Music Ensemble’ or something. hey it was funny in our heads.)

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

to continue from yesterday’s Post, lets stick with the basics.

Better yet, let’s answer the question on the minds of 2/3s of Readers* ‘Why go to the trouble of doing all that Reading when we can go buy a book on the Oscar Meyers Briggs Random Letter system or (and this guy we actually did love back in grad school days) William Sheldon‘s ‘Constitutional Psychology’?

One reason: 1) the Doctrine is a fun and effective to understand people and such, more importantly, B) applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, we are better able to appreciate the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Which, quite neatly, takes us back to ‘the Everything Rule’. We all experience reality as it manifests relative to our predominant worldview. There’s a rather long metaphor, (maybe a simile, probably not an analogy), about the three friends standing across the street from a popular restaurant in the middle of the noon rush. Won’t go into it here, but obviously the three are a clark, a scott and a roger. (New Readers! extrapolate what is going through the minds of our friends on the basis of their being: an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member. Write your questions below)

The thing we say about learning the Doctrine is that we strive to be fluent. That is, like any other ‘foreign’ language, the more we practice it, the better we know it, the smoother the ‘translation’ is… the goal of fluency being the capacity to think in the (foreign) language.

as Hamlet says to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy… you wanna know how many things? well, do you? come on!! I know you want to know… just ask me!! Come on.”

What the Bard left out: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) each with their own characteristic personal reality

all right, we’ve said too much already.

* 2/3s is far too charitable a number to designate the percentage of those here, (more than twice), relative to predominant worldviews. the accepted percentages of the three ‘personality types’ of the Doctrine in the general population are: 66% rogers, 10% scotts and 23% clarks