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

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of habits and repetition: the old is such a sucker for playing dress-up as the new“

February 10, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

~~Regular Readers of this blog are most likely raising eyebrows (surprise-rise of twin hairy suns on the coffee cup horizon) and whispering, ‘Ruh roe’.~~

~~But serially, the work of self-improving ourselfs can be frustrating.~~

~~The catnip of ‘Self-Improvement’ is surely most.~~

Hold on! New topic! (Throw those syllabi down on the ground!!)

‘the Everything Rule’

The Everything Rule states: everyone does everything, at one time or another.

While it’s most prominent value, vis á vis the Wakefield Doctrine, is to remind New Readers that there is only one predominant worldview (‘personality type’) per… err adherent. You don’t get to be a unique, Doctrine-challenging, special class of clark/scott/roger for one reason: a) that’s not how the system is laid out and 2) thanks for identifying yourself as a roger! (lol)

The thing of it is, this position, (of one predominant worldview), illuminates the core principle of our little ‘personality theory’. Our relationship to the world around us creates the personal reality we exist in. And …and! at the heart of the Everything Rule is the notion that we, (each of the three personality types), manifest the common reality according to (this) relationship.

Example: no!! the heck with the time-worn ‘if being a cop is most suited to a scott, what are clarklike and rogerian policemen like?

Instead let’s paraphrase a mid-20th C proverb (Maslow’s Law of the Instrument):

When you’re an Outsider (clark)/Predator (scott)/Herd Member (roger) everything in the world is: a threat of scrutiny/prey or larger predator/the Herd (except for outsiders and predators).

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 7, 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 (TToT) bloghop. Each week the invitation is extended to bloggers and other writers to create and link a list of the ten things that push to the Free Associate line when the word ‘Gratitude’ is announced. Limited only by one’s imagination, it is a good thing to do with words and such.

So, come on down!

For the Doctrine, our TToT list (down through the Summers):

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the days are getting longer (while that might not shovel the snow, it do make it less oppressive)

6) lets try this: a vid clip from 2013 which we’re grateful we uploaded the following video proving there is a time when the temperature rises above 32°

7) just looked at the whole post…clearly we’re grateful for living near an ocean

8) something, something

9) damn! new frozen water this morning! Grateful for the song prompt!

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)

Music vids

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

a little RePrint post perhaps?*

Wait! stop the presses! Lets consider our asteroid**

*sure, it’s the first cup of coffee in the morning in the Land of Words, i.e. not critical to physical health but to one’s quasi-mental health? kinda for reals. Funny, this writing thing. It’s not for lack of ideas, there’s always ideas for writing about. It’s more about self-imposed standards of quality, sanity and propriety. fortunately for us we rarely are bound by standards of quality lol

In the interest of authorly integrity permit us these bullet points:

clarks (Outsiders) the person you know who is funny in a way most people don’t get and you really wish they wouldn’t be so hard on themselves and maybe insist on being treated with a little more respect which is weird ’cause you see more (to them) than most the people in your circle
scotts (Predators) the friend you have that makes you glad to be whichever of ‘the other two’ worldviews you are, while at the same time, you envy them their seeming lack of concern for consequences, outcomes and/or repercussions to they things they do that delight, amuse and otherwise inspire a secret prayer that they survive another birthday/holiday/mid-term break
rogers (Herd Members) the friend that, when you’re in the mood and take the time to think about, quotation marks were invented for… friendly to a faulty, judgmental in a charming way, they mostly make you feel good about yourself, until they don’t. you’re not surprised that by the tenets of this ‘personality theory’ they make up the majority.. big time

ok!

the time-travel song below? well, if you’re writing fiction set in the mid-20th… you’re welcome

** god’s honest truth, we heard someone, a scott we’re pretty sure use the word ‘asteroid’ instead of asterix needless to say, we let it slide… what we didn’t count on was remembering this… thirty years after the fact!