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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

Today’s end-of-the-week pop quiz will be Open Book and …and! Self-graded.

Question: of the three personality types, (of the Wakefield Doctrine), which is gifted with true creativity (at a price fer sure) and which, (of the three), has a sense of what will appeal to the masses (commercial success)?

Question: of the three: one will enjoy this, the other, provided the morning is going slow will also ‘get a kick out this system of predominant worldstew and which, in an all too-common demographic, sneer (in a charming manner). Link the clark/scott/roger with the appropriate description.

Question: here, at the third and final question, which of the three has moved on to some (other) blog/blogpost and which remains because, ‘this does make a kind of sense/is fun but familiar and reminiscent of rainy afternoons or Saturday nights (after being stood-up)

Pencils down, binyons.

Those who got all the Answers correct..have a good weekend, see you next week.

Those who did not… no, there’s nothing more to read here. Class dismissed.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 20, 2026 By clarkscottroger 11 Comments

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

Quick! Readers!!! Call it.

Heads: RePrint

Tails: New content.

…on three

Thanks out to Misky. She called heads and we flipped our specially-minted Schrödinger twenty-five cent piece and…

So, yesterday (and the day before, in spirit if not in fact) a discussion sprang into life as a result of Misky’s Comment:

…which leads me to wonder about metaphorical ‘appetite’ like an appetite for learning, or adventure, risk, life, speed, etc. and whether those appetites fall under a scottian umbrella. I’m mostly thinking to myself here because I’m leaning toward ‘yes, yes they do.’

To which we replied:

the fun of using behavioral metaphors (as in the Wakefield Doctrine) is that it is predicated on a person having ‘an ear’ (not musical sound but for rhetoric and rhetorical deviceseses) of course the scottian predominant worldview (relating to the world as would a Predator) includes the unrestrained appetite… especially when in contrast with the price humankind pays in terms of the conveniences of modern culture… (rhymes with rogerian)

does that mean that scotts have to have the unsubtle appetite of a lion on the savannah with a pack to provide for?

yes. yes it does!
lol

the fun and value of metaphors is (imo): life and reality being but a serial story… metaphor is developed to allow insight beyond a culture’s current vocabulary (or would that be glossary? whatevs) so metaphor is both language, writing pad, pencil and big-assed eraser (the good kind, the blond, squarish slightly crumbly type that all grade school kids wanted and rarely had)…

ya know?

So, now that we’ve had a Reader step up and break the ice on Self-Conscious Pond, would anyone else care to offer an insight/opinion/guess/conjecture or ‘what-it-this’?

If this helps: the Wakefield Doctrine insists on two things:

there are three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) they (all three) are a function of the character of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them starting at the youngest of ages. We all grow up and develop our style/strategy for interacting with the world as we experience it. As a result, those of us who learn and enjoy this little theory can rest assured we have the perfect personality.
the Everything Rule maintains that everyone does everything, at one time or another. which is to say, the three personality types (of the Wakefield Doctrine) are in fact in the same reality. anything one might think applies to one, applies to the other two. it is simply manifested differently, according to the relationship the person we are talking about maintains with the world
only one predominant worldviews to a person (secondary and tertiary aspects having an passing effect is valid)

so to our Friend of the Doctrine’s Comment, consider how ‘appetite’ manifests in the three

clarks (the Outsider) discreet sips/prodigious needs
scotts (the Predator) more fun when it gets on everyone
rogers (the Herd Member) I beg your pardon, one simply must consider not only the arrangement and setting but the very Menu, there is, after all, a Right Way

Weigh in as you would

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

If you permit us to dispense with all the set-up and qualification for the thesis of today’s post, i.e. which of the three will get it, why the ‘other two’ don’t, what you say we just jump right in.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up) that is useful as a tool. A tool to aid in our effort to self-improve ourselfs.

As is the case with most (simple) machines and (their scottian cousins) simple tools, their most basic (and therefore, efficacious) operation should be immediately apparent. So too, with our Doctrine.

So here’s the thing: it’s not that the Doctrine doesn’t bring about changes in how we relate ourselves to the world around us, it does. It’s that we don’t always accept the changes we know in our minds are what we ‘want’.

In other words, ‘We go into the Better Self Store. Find what we’ve been looking for and take it to the Checkout counter. Pay for it. Proceed to walk out of the store, leaving our purchase on the counter.*

yeah, like that.

New Readers! Some of you, the more adept at this Doctrine thing, are probably feeling less than well. A slight drop in the stomach, heat in the face etc. Don’t despair. You’ve already done the hard work. Most (say 2/3) of people don’t know there’s a store. Of those who do, most of them, don’t know where it is** and finally, of them who drive into the parking lot, almost all don’t have what it takes to walk into the store.

*or, worse, take out out of the store, put it on the roof of our vehicle as we unlock the doors and…drive away with it still on the roof. (yeah, you more advanced, imaginative Readers, the pedestrians, they be all, “My goodness! Don’t that driver know they’ve left they purchase on de roof?”

** Hint: it’s somewhere different for each of us and is not always clearly marked. (On our maps. We’re doing a metaphor/allegory/parable here, people. yeah, again. lol)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 21, 2026 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.

You are invited to join in the bloghop that Lizzi R created, back in the Summer of ’72. A time when music was exciting and the world did not yet possess the tools to completely monetize our young adult lifes. So, write a list, link it up and join in the exercise of gratuity*, It’s sorta easy, definitely fun.

For the Wakefield Doctrine, our list is:

1) Phyllis (in the kitchen, to Una’s left)

2) Una (from a Christmas so very long ago)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) physical ok(ish)-edness. …ok, some context might be in order (for any new Readers). The photo, depicting the business end of my San Angelo bar after hour-two of chipping 3″ of ice from the driveway. Also… our right foot. An example of a perfect winter sport: not dying lol

6) still light out at, like 5:15 instead of not that long ago, 3:01 in the fricken afternoon

7) writing (specifically the series of three narratives (or plots or storylines…not really up on the technical side of this thing). At any rate, each week is a suspenseful adventure as I try to stay one installment ahead of the Reader. (Seat-of-pants writing, anyone?)

8) something, something

9) work: providing us with an opportunity to earn an income in a truly non-routine kind of endeavor. ya know?

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 5, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Thanks go out to Misky for asking a question that serves as an excellent launching pad for the first Doctrine post of the week.

Q: is teamwork more apt to be prevalent in one more than the other?

Excellent questions. Are there any other questions?

ha ha

Serially, to address this question we must agree upon a definition of the concept of ‘Teamwork’.

Colloquially it is a group of individuals sharing a common purpose, goal or pursuit and (this) endeavor is made successful by the contributions of each member without individual self-interest distracting from and otherwise diminishing the achievement of the state goal.

(After checking for yourself), we cite the goofiest of definitions, courtesy of Indeed-uk: “…also relates to the cohesiveness of a team, their ability to create a positive working atmosphere and how they recognize the strengths and skills that each team member brings.”

Yeah, right.

All kidding aside, the first step (and totally consistent with ‘the Everything Rule’) is to ask, how does ‘Teamwork’ manifest in each of the personal reality of the three predominant worldviews:

the Outsider (clarks): solitary by definition, the Outsider is willing to work without ego, any satisfaction attendant to accomplishing a goal is both personal and private. The scrutiny of (their) efforts is both anathema and, more often than not, abhorrent to the clark. Menial labor (working in the mime-light, if you will) is preferred for being less the center of attention.
the Predator (scotts): Follow me! Do you want to live forever!?! We brave band!! Nothing less than totally natural-born leaders. While it’s recognized that leader is a valid and, even necessary position in a team, our Predator will remain in the ranks as long as there is action, forward motion, (and nothing too subjective or confusing, forget the interminable zoom meetings).When they’re not cutting off the heads of the opponent, they are keeping their eye on the leader (and the sigil of his/her position).
the Herd Member (rogers): all for one and one for all…right? Correct. A herd. An open grazing field. Teamwork! A lion or a crocodile at the ford in the river separating these fields? Compress the ranks and avoid the fringes. But then again, all is rarely ever serene and harmonious among the ranks. A herd, despite the temptation to judge it from afar as being stable and consistent, is anything but. You can’t spell ‘in-fighting’ without the ‘g’ in ‘roger‘.

So the short, easy answer to the question of who of the three is more predisposed to exhibiting the qualities that result in successful teamwork? rogers

The more productive, (and, therefore, useful), insight: all three are desirable when left to their strengths and not distracted by their indulgences. Meaning: When it’s time to charge the field of battle, put a scott in front; every team needs to be organized and supplied, get the rogers to believe they have the essential among multiple logistic tasks and the dull, monotonous work? If you could see them, the clarks are probably already doing that work.