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Thursday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2025 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

So, guess this gives proof to the notion that we, all of us, have within, all elements of the three predominant worldviews that make up, (as opposed to ‘make up for’), the personality theory continued/exhibited/manifested and otherwise made available in these pages.

New Reader? Tempting as it might be to try to take the position that given how irrefutable it may seem that at one time, (or another), you clearly exhibit the primary characteristics of one (and then the other (and finally, well, would you look at that! the other)) personality types.

It doesn’t work that way. One predominant worldview to a customer. For life.

Why? Well, look at it this way: the fundamental tenant (or is that, tenent?) is that personality type is a reflection, indication and evidence of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them (and the people who make it up). It is our experience of reality (Hint: that of an Outsider, a Predator or a Herd Member) that shapes the self those around us witness.)

It only makes sense. The primary job of the infant human is to develop successful strategies for survival and thrival* Find yourself in the reality of the Outsider and you’ll learn to learn (on the down-low) and to keep a low profile; look around at the (metaphorical) savannah of Life that seems to be nothing less than an Open-Air McDonalds, (mostly burger ‘n fries-seeking-lifeforms but…cruising the vast Parking Lot (of Life) not a few bigger (and hungrier) Predator types… you get the pitcha. Anyway… the Doctrine only works with this three-way symmetry. So why would one want to argue against the premise? oh yeah, there are always Herd Members in the crowd.

Enough of this!

RePrint! RePrint!!! Reprint!!?

Full Disclosure: had to read a bunch of Doctrine posts to find the Original T-Giving Post. Ever one liked it so much, the electrons had barely faded-out when I was all RePrinty. In any event, here ya go from (don’t do the math!) 201o

J’accuse!* that turkey did not commit suicide!…the Wakefield Doctrine Holiday-style

November 23, 2011

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) on this eve of Saint rogers’s Day!

Thanksgiving Day¹ is the holiday that, if we did not already know that there exists a personality type referred to as a roger, someone would have pointed it out to us. Perhaps the task would have fallen to an Art Professor in a land grant college somewhere in the Midwest. We can imagine the epiphany …in the middle of the night (during his sabbatical devoted to the study of the works of Norman Rockwell),
” My god! Norman’s work is not just a robust and healthy celebration of paedophilia! He has been trying to tell us to transform our culture! …for all good Americans to come forth and show their appreciation of patriotism, consumerism and child-abuse!!”

We have, from time to time, been accused of indiscriminate use of hyperbole in these pages, however, just consider the astounding level of pervasiveness of the ‘Holiday of Thanksgiving’. It is not enough to close the Post Office system and all other government agencies², no it is not. This Holiday actually attempts to compel normal, rational, adult people to sit in front of the television and watch a Parade involving giant balloon representations of out-of-print newspaper cartoon characters! Who the hell watches the Macy’s Day Parade on purpose?!? Throughout the entire morning of Thanksgiving, you simply cannot escape the pageantry and spectacle, broadcast live and has, as the ’emcees’, News Anchors from the major networks morning news shows! ( “Thats right, Matt! That’s Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift on the Snoop Dog float… it says here that her eye makeup took 12 hours and 6 pounds of aluminum foil chips to create!!” ). Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting done in ‘live-action’, the whole country is exposed to hours and hours of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade… more than 3 hours of parade music and floats (” … hey, Anne isn’t the next float from your hometown”? “That’s right Al! it’s my old Alma mater, the East Clydesdale High School Marching Band playing a medley, ‘Straight outta Compton’, ‘Fuck tha Police’ and ‘Gangsta Gangsta’ )

Why do we say Thanksgiving is the most rogerian of all holidays? Simply because Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why. As a cultural event, this particular holiday tells it’s participants exactly what to do; what to eat and how to cook it! Taught from childhood, every member of our culture knows precisely how (and) where they are expected to spend the Holiday! Thanksgiving is about family! And if there is anything that rogers fake better than anyone, it is the joyful appreciation and celebration of the family.

But don’t just take our word for it! Following is an excerpt from a Post of the Wakefield Doctrine that was written over a year ago! (and nothing says credibility better than…age)

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are a very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

based on a factual historical event (sort of)

the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away, together, on boats

food, specific food and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu

ritual menu and a full schedule of events

shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)

a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving! And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, (sort of), is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, ‘expectations-sure-to-fall short’, (not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up), than Parades? I don’t care if you’re a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV, nothing says roger better than Parades!

* As a result of the popularity of (Zola’s) letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful

1) the Day that the indigenous people of the North American continent made a gift of their lands and cultures and cuisine to their new European friends.

2) you do know about the Post Office and rogers, don’t you?

* not a ‘real’ word

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 24, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

well, in our defense, with this being a holiday week, what say we lead-off with a RePrint!

’cause nothin’ says ‘Unearned Vacation Time’ better than a ‘National Holiday’

New Readers: In this here personality theory here, there are three holidays in celebration of some rogerian projection of moral and/or virtuous exceptionalism in, primarily-but-not-exclusively, the culture of Oceania, We advise you to keep up with your assigned reading. The posts for the rest of the current week will make far more sense. yo.

and….and!! we gots a video of the Patron Saint of (male*) Herd Members!! At the bottom of the RePrint!!

*Yes, this is a great opportunity to remind Readers, (new and otherwise), that last qualification on the star of the video in this RePrint? One of the true fundamentals of this system:

the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.

“Enough of the theory!” the Wakefield Doctrine “…the real world, tell how it does us any good in the real world, homes”

November 20, 2013

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

Alert Reader Denise writes:

“…Doctrine! It has provided me with much insight into rogers. In a nutshell: they will always be the ones to say no. They will do nothing to disturb the boundaries, the lines that frame their world. clarks need to take notice of this. The sooner the better. I leave it in your hands, Clark, to explain to new readership the why. Maybe you need to write the answer in the form of a post.

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And since we are talking about rogers**

Our Friend Zoe says to us in a Comment, she says:

“… my new roger is settling in to his new environment a bit too well… coveting my office…I loan my office out readily without reservation, but he made it very clear by saying ” I want that office… when are you leaving?” and has left telltale signs of his usage… I may have a rogerian twist and be a clark at heart… but never piss off my scott.“

Sorry. The ‘damage’ is done.

Not to ‘baby-coat’¹ our assessment, but you are witnessing a roger challenging your membership in the herd. How is that possible, you ask? The frickin guy got there 20 minutes ago and he thinks that he can include himself in the group? ( you say with not a little emotion). What gives him the right to try that? If you are in possession of any of these thoughts, I hate to tell ya, but you have just painted yourself a lovely shade of blue². It is totally ‘too late’.

Not ‘too late’ to make things right, restore the proper balance, achieve an understanding among the players in this little drama…. just ‘too late’ to avoid a ‘conflict’ with the roger in your environment.

If he had perceived you as another roger or a scott he would have:

presented his credentials, not to meet your approval but to allow him to ‘tune himself to the herd’ (you know how the sound of cattle and herds of cows are often presented as a single ‘MOO’ ? well, I think our Progenitor roger will attest to the fact that what is heard as a single MOO is, in fact, comprised as a harmony among the members… your roger probably started with presenting some of his history to everyone he came into contact with…to hear the pitch of his new herd)

presented his ‘soft-underbelly’ if he thought you were a scott (at least, a predominant scottian female)… but this observation is moot, because in that particular tango, the woman leads… (at least initially and to the extent that the average person is able to see

So… now you have yourself a roger feeling like he can enhance his standing in the herd by making you appear more and more the Outsider. Remember, a dominance move by a roger, in contrast to that of a scott is never made ‘alone’. While he may appear to be addressing the matter of use of the office space to you directly, most of his efforts are actually directed to the others in your environment. rogers always work in the context of the group, the herd. It is this ‘contexting’ that rogers will base their strategy on, that and, be on the lookout for (him) invoking referential authority. ( Hey, I know you love your space..I respect that, but we were talking about how, with the practice growing we all need to work together more…”)

All kidding aside. you now have a problem that, interestingly enough, can be seen as a manifestation of the trap that would appear to an inherent aspect of the desire for self-improving oneself. You rightly know that you can ‘over-come’ this person’s attempt to reduce the quality of your personal work environment. But at what price? The Doctrine states that we all retain access to those two worldviews that are not our predominant worldview. In your case, (we hear you say), ‘ a clark with secondary rogerian and tertiary scottian aspects’. but…. but! here is where the conflict begins to manifest. (If) you are a clark, then your personal reality is that of the Outsider…which makes perfect sense given your situation. You can access your scottian aspect and inter-act with this roger as would a scott, and as we have already said, if this were a scott-on-roger thing, none of the the above would be happening. So, you can dominate the roger rather decidedly. But then what? Will you trade your predominant (clarklike) worldview for a victory in a single circumstance? Or… is there a way to reach an understanding with this person? unfortunately, the Wakefield Doctrine says ‘no’.

Well, sorta. We’re playing with the words now. clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. So, if you want to reach an understanding, you are out of luck. That is not to say that there is nothing you can do, but it should not be thought of as an understanding.

Lets return to a strategy we have previously offered: ‘love your roger‘ This is still the preferred strategy, but it will require a bit more….finessing. Yes, you should ‘love your roger‘, but that does not mean (as is all too often the case with clarks), you must allow him to do as he wishes. But, to love your roger requires that you relate to him on an emotional basis… more than that! you must regard him on an emotional basis. We’re using italics here to convey the idea that, if you are able to know him completely on an emotional basis you will be relating to him as a member of the herd. That’s right! trade that lovely azure coat for a comforting wrap of brown and white spots!

(will continue later today…. )

Wait a minute!! If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the scott and roger…. everything is right there. (the roger looking to left and right for the herd that is his context, his invoking referential authority, his offering of emotional currency…his love).

1) a rogerian expression of sorts… a fascinating characteristic use of language found only in rogers…here, go to the page on rogers down towards the bottom

2) a reference to the description of a clark in the context of a group, or perhaps it would be more realistic to say, ‘a clark in contrast to a group’ in any event, the term ‘blue monkey’ is a remnant of grad school days when we learned of (or came to believe that we learned of) an experiment in which one young monkey was painted (more likely dyed) blue and returned to his troop, you can imagine the result. In the Wakefield Doctrine we use the blue monkey image several ways, as a symbol of the innate outsider-ness that clarks exhibit when in a social setting, and it is also used to refer to (a) clarks self-sabotaging by make an extra effort to ‘contrast their differences.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 10, 2025 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

What say we start the week of Doctrine posts* with a look at the concept of secondary and tertiary aspects?

That’d be fun, right?

Three predominant worldviews:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

At a very, very early point in life, one, (and only one), of the three characteristic ways of relating ourselves to the world around us becomes established (and, yes, permanent).

What of ‘the other two’?

They remain as potentials.

What does it mean to have ‘potential ways of relating ourselves to the world around us’? It means that they are hard-wired in our selfs. These (we’re talking about all three now) are predispositions to how we interact with reality.

The answer, roger, is ‘No’. The question they were preparing, and by preparing, we mean putting the lightest of interrogatives to their ‘question’ with the intention of concluding, ‘Then it’s true! I am really all three.”

No. (lol go away now)

The thing of the Doctrine and these predispositions is that they are the character of/manner by which/ways to relate. How effectively we relate is a function of practice.

Put it this way: you have a script. no, wait, let’s not use the word script…let’s use stage direction.

We’re not screenplay writers, we’re probably using the term ‘stage direction’ incorrectly. Too bad. If you’re still reading (and enjoying yourself) you know what we mean.

Practice, rehearsal and ‘owning the part’ is what the Wakefield Doctrine is saying about the three ways to relate ourselfs to the world around us.

Which is why, other than under duress, my significant secondary scottian aspect doesn’t make me a scott.

Running out of time. Fortunately, the clarks among the Readers either intuitively ‘get it’ or, with sufficient elements (of the Wakefield Doctrine) are able to extrapolate further principles and in doing so allow them to enjoy the benefits of our little personality type-thingie.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 8, 2025 By clarkscottroger 9 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. Often imitated, never duplicated, though, trying to be realistic, sometimes replicated, the TToT is an exercise in the development of an awareness of, and cultivation of the psycho-social state of minded referred to as gratitude. Mostly a noun, the verb (form) is to examine the world around us and make a conscious decision to find the good/positive.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) new windows in Phyllis’ cottage

5) changing the landscape (See Grat #6 for rationale)

before:

after:

6) Why the cutting down of this year’s dominant plantform? ’cause we want all flora to have a shot at taking over the side-yard, ya know? It was simple grass last year and the year before that? Everyone’s favorite prehistoric, cavewoman plant… The thistle! But, as a Grat, the plants that grow and flourish are different each year.

7) the photo at the top? That’s Weekapaug Breachway. Not more than twenty-minute drive from home. booyah

8) something, something

9) new Host at the TToT. Andrew Wilson! He writes the excellent, ‘How would you know…?’

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 1, 2025 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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. Every week, since the summer of 1895 (when London was in the grips of a growing evil), one woman gathered her scant belongings, (her clothes, a diary, rag-torn tiger pajamas and her trusty laptop) and escaped the city. Taking up residence in the village of Pressed-Rat-on-Warthog, outside the thriving seaport of Personchester, our Founderette wrote. And, so, now, we take-up keyboards in honor of her vision: ‘Those Good People, Places, Things and Events? Focus on them! Go on wid ya.”

Following are the people, places, things and events we look to in our effort to increase the valence of the positive and, in doing so, decrease the attraction of the negative.

Plus! We get to post fun photos (old, new, imaginary and, ‘No! Really! This is what we witnessed’)

So if you’re reading this, Welcome to the TToT. Our Hostinae (yeah, they have a ton of writing skills, not to mention a certain maturity, …their lists will make sense.)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the pond’s water level, not to mention reflectivity, continues to rise. cool, non?

5) three houses (of sort) in the woods

6) Hey! We were going to list the Hostinae, (and we still will), hold on. But being in a mode of recruitment, what say we stick some names and links of others including some former hostettes? Current staff: Mimi, Dyanne, Kristi, Lisa, Denise, cai, KnitCat and Misky. (From the Before Time: Christine, zoe, Kristi One)

7) Ola’s tree… the serpentine tree extending out over her grave. So, Ola had this thing where, if you gave her a largish rock, she would move it hither and fro by virtue of digging the ground to either side, Imparting a slight bias to one side or another would allow her to determine the rock’s path. Being a considerate German Shepherd, when doing this in the fenced in backyard, Ola made a point of sticking to the perimeters. The pine was somewhat young when Ola’s rock trenched its way by and the rest… as you can see, phototropism waits for no canine.