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pre-Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

So you have more ‘friends’ who are rogers than friends who are scotts and, not possible to accurately account for them…than clarks

Why would this be?

To start, statisticually, in any given population the ratios of the three predominant worldviews are: 69% roger 21% scott and 17% clark

(We good so far?)

For our purposes today we identify ‘friends’ as those people you might think of when, outside of the workplace, classroom, schoolyard or the interior of your parent’s car, you would trust with a personal secret and/or potentially embarrassing aspect of your private life.

According to industrial science experts, you’re more likely to have two other people in your car than four (other people).

So who are your friends?

From the perspective of the Doctrine it breaks down like this:

clarks: 1.5 rogers and 1 scott
scotts: at least 18 rogers and 1, maybe, 2 clarks
rogers: rogers don’t have friends, they have a Herd.* Not that there is anything wrong with that… the sense of belonging, relationship and fealty to others in (a) Herd is considered the equivalent (by rogers)

So get out there today and count the clarks, scotts and rogers who persist in hanging out with you.

Hey! We promised, at the beginning of this blog in 2009, that if you study and learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine you would be in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

…you’re welcome

*while rogers don’t have friends, they are friends of others (pretty much limited to clarks)

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TToT the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 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.

Created by Lizzi R in 1941 even as the summer thunderstorms spawned lethal clouds of German bombers raining destruction on London. Yet her sense of ‘there really should be something like this bloghop in the world if for no other reason than to allow people to bind in common celebration’, resulted in the creation of the TToT. Even if it took another eighty years or so.

And so, we have a Gratitude bloghop, the TToT. Easy to participate, beneficial to share and fun to write. (The secret of this ‘hop is, despite seeming to be quite demanding in form and content (Ten!! things of thankful. In a list, thank you very much)? The hosts (and hostinae) are quite gifted in both the creativity of content and presentation department(s).

So, you’re invited to drag the ole keyboard out from under the dust and post-its and share the people, places, things and events that inspired you to say, “Well, that’s a good thing to have happened’. (any scotts out there? the passive pluperfect subjunctive voice is optional)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Wakefield Doctrine (hat) on the road. Friend of the Doctrine Alex, with his Doctrine hat, claiming the Grand Canyon by Rite of Hat*

5) it didn’t snow this past week (though it fricken’ could’ve, as temperatures were in the 20°s overnight midweek lol)

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) “oh! the humanity!!” the album we pulled a music vid from, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. We’ll to out on a limb and say, ‘Among Readers today there is a significant percentage who still know the lyrics’. (no, we won’t do the math). damn! Even worse! we remember the order of the songs.

8) something, something

9) old project complete, new project beginning here’s a Before photo (with any luck we’ll have an After photo next weekend)

Before

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

* ok, one more cut**

** the worst thing?? we should be that young again lol

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2-ooze dé -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Seeing how we’re in a Back-to-Basics theme this week, lets get all, ‘these-are-some-of-the-certainties-of-the-Doctrine:

clark (the Outsider) …”not a problem, we’ll gladly accept these certainties…until the next set comes along.”
scott (the Predator) “what are you talking about? you run away from us? we chase/ you run at us we fight, pretty simple, isn’t it?”
roger (the Herd Member) “now you’re talking our language! have a seat we’ll tell you everything we need you to know.”

that (bullet list)? We’ll leave it un: tended/edited/refined, ’cause the Wakefield Doctrine is the kind of thing that if you get it, you enjoy it. If not, can’t be helped.

We, all of us, have one, (and only one), predominant worldview. It is: the context/conditions/biases against which we, when tiny, little babies develop: the social strategies/interpersonal style/way-to-get-through-life schema.

By this, (the above), definition, we all have the perfect (or best-we-could-do) personality types. They are geared to the personal reality that we all, individually: grew up/matured in/and made the best of.

The ‘other two personality types?’ They are within us and have the potential to become significant influences in: our lives/interpersonal interactions/efforts to live well.

Needless to say, (well, as far as the clarks reading this), there are no: hybrids/mutations/sports when it comes to predominant worldviews/personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine perspective.

ProTip/Insider Info/’Don’t-tell-anyone-but-I-like-you scoop, the greater the degree of enthusiasm/fervor/desire to be accepted as this special case deserving acceptance by others, the likelihood this person is one of the three approaches lead-pipe cinch status. (Won’t tell anyone. …ok, just a hint: the predominant worldview we’re referring to rhymes with roger,

mums the word.

questions?

thanks and a shout-out to one of the leading Students of this here Doctrine here, our friend Cynthia (totally stylin’ in a Wakefield Doctrine T at the top of the post)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

(I’ve called you all here on a matter of grave concern…..lol)

Let’s do a ‘This is a football‘ post.

Thanks, Vince. Love the work with the collegiate-commercial complex and, of course, the shoring up the patriarchy behind most institutions.

We do not come here to praise football, but to bury it under a pile of rogers.

ok. Monday morning now.

Sticking(ish) with the theme, lets see how we wrote it eleven years ago (?!?!#^?? eleven. years. ago!)

the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the people in our lives, that can, when properly applied, lead to understanding them in ‘additional ways’. By ‘additional ways’, we mean… ‘what am I doing that is an integral aspect in how they are acting?

(…. “Ladies and Gentleman this is ‘an inflated leather spindle torus’” sorry, lol… I was trying to write ‘the speech’, but thought about the ‘setup’…post game speech… locker room… various states of dress…demographics of the current readership…. me standing on a bench (in that locker room)….lol) wait! wait! let me try again.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective. It’s a way to see the world, it’s a way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives. It’s not an Answer, it’s a Question. And…. (hey!! Val!! please!!! no leaning out the window and shouting at the people in the CVS parking lot!!! come on! they’re on serious, old person/sick person business!! thank you. ) the Question is: ‘how does my spouse/the girl at the 7/11, / the Teacher who is shaping my 7 year old’s life/ the people I read about in the news… how do they appear to be ‘relating themselves to the world around them’?’ The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we all live in a personal reality (aka worldview) that is characterized as (one) of the following:

live as ‘the Outsider’ (clarks) always apart from, different, trying to understand what it is they don’t understand, trapped by the belief that it is about knowledge

the world of the Predator (scotts) seemingly confident (always looking for threats and opportunity), active and impulsive running into doors as often as gallantly opening them, protective and paranoid

the life of the Herd Member (rogers) self-assured, as the world of the roger is one that is quantifiable/(and limited), knowable/(and ignorable) ordered and simple… searching only for ‘the Right Way’/ missing the enjoyment of the un-expected and strange

What the Wakefield Doctrine refers to as ‘personality types’ is simply the skill set we develop in order to successfully cope with the reality that we find ourselves growing up in and living our lives in … (‘no Kimberly… we can’t stop for donuts…. we have to drive to Galilee next…. yes, Lisa I will try to walk on the water… very funny’). So what we are saying with the Doctrine is this: understand the three worldviews, infer how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them and they will do the rest. No, I’m serious! Ask anyone! Once you start to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, they will ‘act the part’ to a degree that is sometimes a little scary. But fun.. The goal of all of this is: to try to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

It takes imagination. It takes the kind of curious mind that not only is capable of, but enjoys imagining that a person is a Predator (figuratively) or creative perfectionist or… or even the person who is ever the Outsider, but always manages to be a part of…secretly, of course!

…ok everyone out! we’re back.

No, they’re not.

Back ‘then’, that is. They are long distant in the Before Time.

Let’s wrap this up.

The Wakefield Doctrine, (besides being a perspective), is a tool and an amusement, an insight and a diversion. This because, at the core of the Doctrine, at the heart of everyone’s favorite personality theory, is the belief that all reality, on a basic and not overly-grand level, is personal. A view that no more diminishes the common sensibility of ‘reality’ than reading Shakespeare makes one the Bard.

ya know?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 4, 2026 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.

The beauty part of this here Grat bloghop here is that the Rules (ten things?) are suggested for the sake, (and benefit), of a certain consistency.* It allows ‘new’ participants and old ‘participants’ to relax and write in a familiar environment. Whereupon we can totally mix things up with unbridled creativity (we’re looking at you, cai! lol) So write whatever you care to and try to stay in the Key of Gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) speaking of the Wakefield Doctrine. encountered a great illustration of a person’s secondary aspect having a clear (and beneficial) effect and influence on a person, i.e. Phyllis. She maintains that she relates herself to the world around her as does a Herd Member, making her, in the more informal parlance of those who versed in the Doctrine, a roger. She does, however, have a significant clarklike secondary aspect. As a roger she knows how things are properly (and consistently) done, aka the Right Way. (a clark, less so lol). Buying a holiday floral arrangement the other day, she came home with:

…given the clarklike leanings of most Readers of this here bloghop here, we will say one word: ‘Audrey Junior’ and leave it at that. (It takes a little extra effort but the original film by Roger Corman can be found. Here’s the IMDb link to help.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) reasonable chance that will we not have a major snowstorm in the near-term future

7) Before and After!! (Grat: to simply be able to rake the leaves) Our resident pitcha maven, Misky might have a pointer or two on sharpening up the …focus

Before

After

8) weather this weekend appears to favor our finishing the pond damn repair project this weekend. the schedule is critical as the ground is warming and once certain lifeforms manage to put on their six or eight shoes and socks and venture out, we need to be long-gone. (Hey! this allows an example of a Hypo- Grat** We leave of glasses in the house!! lol the world subsequently becomes a little indistinct… which is entirely the point!)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* the full quote, Mr. Emerson, if you would: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines…” from ‘Self-Reliance‘

** a feature we daresay no other Gratitude bloghops have… the citing of bad people, places, things and events provided the positive outcome is cited (for better explanation check in with our resident expert, Mimi)

music vids Hey! theme this week? instrumentals in which the style or tone of the guitarist is immediately recognizable