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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

So…

Nope… not gonna take the easy(er) path of a RePrint post today. Though god knows there are few more Doctrine-instructional days of the week to incite a Doctrine post than Tuesday!

ok, lets keep it basic.

New Readers: (no better way to stay ‘on track’* to write a Wakefield Doctrine post than to address them/write to that ‘market’). Hey! This blog is about the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We admittedly indulge in the harmless conceit of calling it a personality theory. Mostly because of the word ‘personality’. Which almost all of us are conditioned to think: ‘personality types!’ ha! (the exclamatory ‘ha’ is there just to set us up for one of the fun descriptions of generic personality types, of the kind formally found in magazines and now(ish) online.

The set-up is: “Oh honey! Come here! I’ve just read an article about personality types. It has you down to a ‘T’. You’re a (fill in the blank with random capital letters or maybe some animal species or, if of high academic ambitions, verbs turned into nouns, ‘Driver’ or whatever (don’t forget to capitalize!). In anyevent, our punchline is: “Now Mrs. Gullible has a brand new mirror-shaped club!”

ha ha

Have we mentioned that clarks tend not to tell jokes effectively? (Now, scotts! damn! that’s a whole post in and of itself. Warning!! Be careful what you ask for. Not entirely complimentary to our Predatory friends. At least for the most sensitive scotts. (yeah, we know! as if).

Back to our thesis: New Readers: if you visit consistently you will see a certain pattern here. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday are referred to a ‘Doctrine posts’. The Thursday post is a Six Sentence Story (a prompt based fiction bloghop). Saturday and Sunday, the TToT post.

that should do for today. (found my music vid in that last sentence, albeit a day late.)

*ok! congratulations New Reader!! You’ve demonstrated several qualities considered necessary to the full-enjoyment of the rhetorical, why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk adventure that is the Wakefield Doctrine! No, we know you don’t need that explained, but for the benefit of the roger or scott looking over your shoulder we’ll say this: “The more enduring and consistent quality characterizing those who find the Wakefield Doctrine fun/interesting/useful, are flexiblity of intelligence and a ravenous curiosity.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

While today is Monday, here in Oceania, it is a holiday. It is called, not without un-intended irony, ‘Labor Day’.

In that spirit, we will eschew any sense of (labor) and paste a random RePrint*.

* spin-scroll through the list of all posts while saying, ‘There’s a light…”

Wait! Before we spin ‘n print! Next week’s TToT will be special. It’ s an Open Audition (for Hosts/Hostinae). More later this week. Mark your calendars!

Monday Post -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘what?! did I read that correctly?!!!* whats going on here?’

October 24, 2016

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

Quick, before it fades from my mind, ‘within yesterday’s memory are all the lessons I need to make today the kind of day that I would hope it might be.’

whew! damn, that was close!

No, serially! I was (deliberately) veering from the path I found myself on this morning and the forces of sameness were totally marshaling to get me back on track. ‘back on track’ aka in the same old rut. (Funny how the truisms of life seem to be dual purpose, isn’t it?)

Anyway, as Ellias McDaniels, (no fair looking the name up! If I’m going to all the effort and social risk of getting obscure, then the least you can do is allow me the pleasure of your response that you know the reference.*), would say…

So, why the Monday Post? Two reasons:

I’m trying to side-step my internal critic (that part of me who knows the true measure of my abilities and is kind enough to not let me write anything thats not up to the standards that I should be living up to)

I’m in self-improve-by-virtue-of-better-organizing-my-time mode. (Tell me that thats not the single most aggravating aspect of your day!) Well, tell me that, if you’re a clark. Speaking of which, how long has it been since I’ve written a ‘hey! this is the Wakefield Doctrine! you wanna hear about the best personality theory you’re ever going to hear about?’

thanks! whoever that was in the back of the room (metaphorically speaking) and speaking of back of the class… can anyone out there tell me the personality type who gravitates to the back of the class, the back of the lecture hall, the back of the crowd at the annual awards ceremony and the front of the car? I’ll give you some time. Hell! I’ll give you the rest of this morning to answer.

So, the Wakefield Doctrine is an approach to personality types that will allow you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. With the Doctrine, you will no longer have ask the world, ‘how could I fall for that again! I really thought I knew them better than that!!’
With the Wakefield Doctrine as (an) additional perspective on life, (and that’s what it and every other ‘theory’ of ‘personality’ actually is, and I’m totally including the Oscar Myers Briggs&Stratton, the ‘what color is my vegetable’ (current fav on ‘the Facebook’) and Jung’s ‘What!?! No, I’m not saying that Fred and Wilma were real, I’m saying that archetypes…never mind!’) personality theories. With the Wakefield Doctrine you will be in position to see the other people in your life in a context that allows their behavior to make sense. And that’s all any of us want, isn’t it?**

Well, running out of time this morning, so the basics:

clarks the Outsider: the simplest way to describe this personality type (and to test yourself for clarklike tendencies) is that this person wakes up each and every morning thinking, ‘ok the world and everyone is still out there, I know I can figure it out today’

scotts the Predator: the person most like to be voted: jeez! I’d love to be able to be like that,…. scotts will bound out of bed, ready for whatever is waiting, and they know there’s something waiting outside the bedroom door/at the office/among the kids at the daycare and that annoying woman who is so judgmental

rogers the Herd Member: if you got a little annoyed at the (numbered) bullet points because I clearly said ‘two’ and you have a certain confidence that everything that must be achieved in your day will be, if for no other reason than the fact that your list has the important things at the top; rogers don’t wake up thinking, they wake up planning, and they most assuredly do not bound out of bed, one could sprain an ankle being so reckless, and besides, there’s no rush, the schedule is simple and well established.

…gotta run (or walk (or stroll)) out into the world.

*totally a clark thing, if you respond, ‘yeah, clark, who do you love’ I will feel a surge of pride in my getting to hang out with people who are of a place that allows them to know a semi-obscure musical reference (and that’s that only hint you get!)

** yeah, that is a trick question

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 4, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Here’s something a bit of the different for a Friday post.

What your questions?*

*to the promising New Reader likely a clark, ‘Why yes, there is a very good chance that we will know which of the three is your predominant worldview on the basis of the question**

** New Readers are forgiven¹ for asking the obvious question. No need to be concerned. One of the fundamental standards of behavior here is that no one has authority to publicly designate another person’s type without their clear and explicit permission. At least no authority that would carry any weight with anyone familiar with the Doctrine.

1) frequent rogerian Readers are not

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 31, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

While we try to remember the (suggested) topic for the week’s first post, lets rummage through the Box ‘o RePrints, shall we?

…wait! stop the keyboard! we have a little video from our own Golden Years of video/audio Doctrine/Curator!

the heck with adieus

ok, a little backstory: for a few years, at the end of the First Decade of the Second Millennium, we had cause to travel on business, once (or twice) a year. For reasons, lost in the Fog of Bore, we decided that, on each trip, rather than fly directly home, we would do some clarklike* tourism at places that held an attraction (for us). One such trip included a drive through Mississippi to see the Crossroads of Robert Johnson fame.

here:

* so, for a clark, tourism is about what, as kids, we used to call ‘touching hands’** Point of Interest, drive there, get out of car, take photos or videos, get back in car and leave.

** i.e. scary old house, ideally with keep out signs all over the place, the dare was ‘touch hands’ which was not ‘go on the property or get there it’ rather it involved touching it (running away was permitted and encouraged afterwards)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 25, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Very enjoyable (and insightful) Comment/Reply from our regular Readers this week:

Mimi:

The “nice and friendly” is my rogerian secondary showing off so as a Clark-like female I don’t make enemies

This in response to our assertion that several of the clarklike Readers of this blog “there are clarks i.e. Mimi and our T-shirt model above (Cynthia) who are genuinely nice, friendly and not (necessarily) kinda intimidating.” (From Monday’s post)

Misky:

Nice analogy — that optometrist thing.

A totally appreciated compliment for part of our Reply to Frank’s Comment, i.e. learn the characteristic views of each of the three to the extent that one can see through their eyes, or, to be more realistic, to respond to aspects of the world sympathetic to Outsiders (clarks), Predators (scotts) or Herd Members (rogers). compare and contrast, yo.

Frank:

After reading the page of rogers, I’m beginning to think I might be a roger.

To which we replied:

ok… the beauty part of the Wakefield Doctrine is how it’s value lies in the individual identifying with their predominant worldview*. So cool. Dive into it. Remember: You can’t get it wrong. Will do tomorrow’s post on rogers…see how you feel about that

* reminder: optometrist ‘Look at Line 6 it is clear? Now (click of switching lens) How about now? And Is this clearer? Except the lenses are the world as seen by the three characteristic relationships (Outsider, Predator, Herd Member) and the letter chart is the world around you

And the thing of it is, the kind of people who ‘get’ the Wakefield Doctrine, are, by definition, those who embrace their curious side and have the (intellectual) self-confidence to play with ideas and perspectives and such. You know, them what have secondary clarklike aspects. lol