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Monday-not-Sunday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 3, 2025 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

Show of ‘hands’.

New Content?

RePrint post (…from the Golden Age of Doctrine posts)?

New…Golden Age… new…

OK! The Hands have it!

We’ll start with a couple of Doctrine ProTips and then find some post that takes us out to three-four hunnert words.

Doctrine ProTip
Primus

New Readers: ‘Warning! Warning. If you persist in ‘learning’ the fundamentals of the Wakefield Doctrine to a sufficient degree, you will be in a position to ‘see’ the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday life. No! Wait… that’s not the Warning! part. The Warning! part is that once you’ve gotten to this point of establishing the Wakefield Doctrine as an alternative perspective on the world around you (and the people who make it up)… you will not be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

ed. we feel better now. that’s the responsible thing to do with New Readers.

How about a really fun and practical insight into the world of a Doctrine neophyte?

Doctrine ProTip
Secundus

Ask someone, anyone* the following Question:

How Much is Two plus Two?

Spoiler Alert: In the case of one of the three** you’ll recognize their predominant worldview as soon as they answer.

…Out of time y’all. Sorry, we’ll keep that RePrint on hold.

Remember! Tell a clarklike friend to come and visit us here at the Wakefield Doctrine blog.

* as you learn this here Doctine here, your first extrapolation of the principles will likely be the insight that, of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, aka the personality types, the person you try this on will define themselves by the initial response to your efforts. As in, ‘Jeez! Come on! This isn’t a trick question…roger

** the three predominant worldviews:

the Outside (clarks) arm’s length (in a subtle, polite but remarkably strong way) people you already know (or are)… they won’t get mad. Unless they do (Hint: only because you’re being kind of a jerk about it) and then…well, you’ll never see them leaving
the Predator (scotts) not so much ‘in your face’… well, ok, in your face, but mostly in a fun and amusing way… kinda like walking down a city sidewalk or in a crowded social gathering and getting your pocket picked by an extraordinarily attractive man/woman.
the Herd Member (rogers) they’re all around you! no, wait, if you’re new here that is not helpful. they’re all around you, which, as a clark you immediately think of the map of Canada***… if you’re a scott you’ll lick your metaphorical (or non-metaphorical) lips… smorgasbord heaven is all this is… or a roger yourself ‘What crowd, this is the Real World.’

*** the country, per Wikipedia with the most shoreline… ha ha

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘surely a clarklike holiday‘

October 31, 2025 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

While not among the Big Three (at least as manifested here in Oceania), Holloween is remarkably pervasive in the world of the 21st Century

And it is such a clarklike holiday

And we will not go on at length on the ‘why’ and ‘in what manner’.

New Readers? Gather a crowd of one hundred twenty-three in an auditorium. The challenge: identify the clarks in the crowd. Solution: Announce over the loudspeaker, “Show of hands, please. Would anyone prefer to be someone else?”

yeah

enough pandering to the rogers and scotts.

PS the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine

clarks (the Outsider) the world is ‘out there’, you are…here but don’t let anyone know
scotts (the Predator) the world is hunter and hunter and there ain’t no tomorrow… and yesterday? cold kill, not appetizing
rogers (the Herd Member) the world is perfect, your appreciation and enumeration of it’s details is proof… tell others

there we go

a little (clarklike) traveling music?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 18, 2025 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). Since that fateful Saturday morning in 1983 when a nameless blogger by the name of Lizzi R decided to find 10 bloggers of a certain sensibility to join as Hostinae and Hostum of the soon to be world famous, the Ten Things of Thankful. The rest is as they say history ( “...historein “be witness or expert; give testimony, recount; find out, search, inquire,” are derivatives of histōr “knowing, expert; witness” (as in hyperhistor “knowing all too well“).

Insider Insight: the original format of this exercise in the recollection, appreciation and nurturing of the higher order process of being grateful? ‘Fifty Items of…’ you read that correctly, Fity! The Founderess practiced this for quite some time before deciding to ask the rest of us to join in on a more easier exercise. Can we get a ‘Whew!!’?

1) Phyllis

2) Una (that’s Una at the top of this post). Talk about an illustration of simple joy… in life, in herself, in the day. She was a total power of example. We so felt the gap between what we are capable of and what she so freely shared in her demonstration of, “Come on, human! It’s fluffy snow… run, run because it’s fun!”

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) a (Netflix series) ‘The Residence‘ totally entertaining and, as many us involved with the various bloghops, we enjoyed watching the writing as we did in being entertained by it.

6) Had rain this week, the water level of the Pond did not subside as radically as it had on a previous rain event. Perhaps the soil in not as dry, parched and welcome to an Altered Climate, binyons, as we thought.

7) for the record: the frozen water season (as depicted in our excellent photo of Una) is not our favorite

8) something, something

9) obligatory (if not begrudging*) photo of Autumn(ish) of the house and Phyllis’ cottage (walking back from the bridge)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* ’cause of the fact that it was not warm

music vids

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 27, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. An exercise in the encouragement and cultivation and imbracchiare* of the psycho-spiritual state of gratitude.

You know, the things that, when they happen (or with the license given contributors for range of subject matter) or are remembered, elicit an response of something along the lines of ‘Well, that didn’t suck!’ or ‘Jeez dodged a bullet on that one!’ or even, ‘I could get used to this, even if I’m not overly deserving of such.’

You get the idea. We’re always grateful for the Hostinae who, with their mature, insightful and non-critical view of this exercise allow us to write all SOC. And, so our List:

1) Phyllis

2) Una (as a muy youngito pupina)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Hypo-Grat* change of seasons. (New Readers? Hypo-Grat is a legit Grat to make the List, provided one can find a positive to the person, place, thing or event designated as a hypo-grat

5) photo at top of post? the insidious approach of Anti-Summer. the yellowing of even the damn pine trees!

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Rain. Friday it the weather was… (wait, allow us to look up the correct meteorological term for excessive precipitation…. ah! here ) ‘It rained like a bastard!’ thanks go to our weather scott for that insight lol

8) something, something

9) photos of pond (and dog) …see Grat # 7

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*open to edit(s)

music

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- Early(ish) Edition!

September 5, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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. Constructed out of a desire that afflicts, not to say, characterizes, many of us who walk the pencil-sketch world of blogs and such, this is one corner of the virtual world that can claim liberty through self-responsibility.

(To paraphrase one of our favorite movies): “That is, in fact, a bold statement.”

That said, we might add, (to quote another, less famous source), ‘But, it’s true.”)

Do yourself a favor. After reading the other TToT posts, dispel the thought: “But these writers are concise and sincere, heck, some of them approach eloquence in their sharing of people, places and things that inspire the state of gratitude. No way I can write like that.”

True. But, before you put away the keyboard (or phone, if’n you’re not, like old or something), read this post, this Wakefield Doctrine TToT.

ikr? You’re now thinking, “Holy shit! If they let that pass and get linked, I can totally fly under the radar and maybe even get feedback from one of the good Writers.”

So, have at it!

For the Wakefield Doctrine, our list of the people, places and things that inspired, incited and otherwise tricked us into harboring the higher-level emotion of gratitude is as follows:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) photo at the top of this post? think of those old Saturday morning cartoons… the one that involved dynamite, (like they didn’t all), and the fuse gets lit? The photo, (at the top), is the first step in a semi-successful tree removal. Hoky Smoke! that’s a prompt for a Secret Rule 1.3 Grat!! Meet us at Grat #8

5) …so the tree did what trees in forests do, (don’t tell anyone, but this one did, in fact, make a sound), and fell where planned. What wasn’t planned was walking on a bee’s nest when clearing the wreckage. As hypo-grats go, it wasn’t bad. We realized that we’d gone pretty much through a lifetime without getting stung by a bee(s)! For a clearer explanation of hypo-grats, our resident expert is Mimi, ask her. She esplains it better.

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Speaking of rogerian tertiary aspects, If you find this bloghop enjoyable (well, lets throw out the lowest and… get all chi square on this thing) why not tell your friends and fellow bloggers and bloggerinae? We’d love to have them join us.

8) How is this gratitude bloghop (the TToT) different and, frankly better’n all the countless others? In our Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) we have what’s referred to as a hypo-grat! And a hypo-grat allows citing (and counting towards the ideal total of 10) things like Grat #5 (go on, go back and re-read it, we’ll wait.)

9) something, something

Wait! Gotta add: Grat 9.3 music and musical creativity… All three music vids are cover versions of an original song: Alice Cooper, The Temptations* and Rage Against the Machine. respectively. But, damn! To hear a genuinely good song and then ‘hear’ something the same but different. We mean, serially, who’d a thought RATM with horns! (Gotta link out to Nick, he being the Six Sentence Café and Bistro’s GateKeeper and ‘Man on the Board’. )

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*recorded by them, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong

music