Welding Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Tomorrow being the start of the fictional posts part of the Doctrine week.* It would seem incumbent on us to tie together the loose ends in the previous posts (Monday, Tuesday).

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that it is the character/nature of the individual’s relationship with reality (personal and common) that is one’s ‘personality type’. And, of course, the primary motivation for discovering and labelling types is to allow a deeper understanding. And claiming insight into whatever it is one is desginating as a type to the extent that the future behavior, development and actions are knowable by the one with the ~~author.~~.. manufacturer.

In any event, the three predominant worldviews:

clarks (the Outsider) “Labels?!! Then we’ll know about the person ahead of time and can safely approach the safe ones??! Where do we send our money!!!”
scotts (the Predator) “Seriously? Love it! Like a ‘USDA Prime’ stamp or ‘Facsimile Only Not for Consumption’…walking Menus! Stamp ’em all and open the corral chute!! Dinner on the run, yum, yum.”
rogers (the Herd Member) “Why how degrading. Labels and profiles. I thought you were more sophisticated and creative than that. No, what’s wrong with you? The P in Prime, that calls for a capital P. Really, is this anyway to run a personality system.”

So the workplace!

Short, sweet(ish) and useful (if you’ve kept up with your Reading):

Managers: rogers

Foremen/Supervisors: scotts

Laborers: clarks

How do you know this? Easy:

A rogerian manager will insist on having an office but will spend most of their time not it in. When a rogerian manager uses their office it is always with a degree of ceremony, i.e. the Closing of the Office Door. (With or without another person in the office. The rogerian manager will always make it obvious to the non-invited staff. This Is Special.)

A scottian foreman/woman? Who would’ve thought a person would chose to sit on your desk? Hey, when the scott wants to pay attention to you, everyone will notice. (Be grateful they only lean or sit on your work area, in nature, Marking Territory is not always so hygenic.)

The clark works alone, even (especially) as a team member. They, (the clarks), unfortunately, never quite understand the proper ratio between actual effort and being a part of the team. This is further exacerbated by their low threshold for boredom. Which leads to egregious misestimation of work completed and work remaining. They (the clarks) are always surprised when called on the carpet to explain their deficiencies.

Ask in the Comments below.

* lol, we know, right?

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Monday-not-Sunday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 3, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

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

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