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November 3, 2026 By clarkscottroger Leave a Comment

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

Where were we?

…guess what happens when a clark walks up and says, “I really like what you’ve done with your world. Everyone belongs. Can I join your Herd?”

something, something…blue paint

good! we’re back on track for this week’s theme.

it’s not a pretty picture when it comes to clarks and Herds. pretty much doesn’t happen. of course. clarks and Herds obviously coexist, sometimes amicably, very often serving as a cautionary tales for unruly members of the Herd. (“keep it up. you wanna end up like him…/her?”)

as couples there are no restrictions on the pairing of Outsiders and Herd Members (blessing of the Everything Rule). that said, the Wakefield Doctrine can be of help (usually the clark in the pair) when conflict (institutional or circumstantial) arises.

what is interesting is how challenging it is for a clark who have convinced themselfs of the value in trying ‘to pass’ as a roger. Hardly ever happens.* And, not for nothin’ if it did and another clark noticed, they’d be all, ‘Don’t mind me. I’ll just get a seat back there, in the back’

not equating the rejection of a clark by the Herd to any of the more ‘real’ world forms of discrimination.

and, before any roger feeling all St. Thomas/Mother Theresa about the situation, a clark’s life, vis á vis being rejected and/or psycho-socially bullied by a gathering of rogers (aka a Herd) is not a tragic, pitiable or anything else… it’s the life… no! lets frame this correctly, it is the nature of the world for the Outsider to be…outside.

not that we celebrate it (much) but there are trade-offs to being outside, such as the gift of creativity** and the joy in encountering new information so… ain’t nothin’ but a thang.

* in which case most likely a clark with a crazy-strong secondary rogerian aspect (no! you don’t want to look) (lol)

** speaking of the Everything Rule… all three have a gift for creativity. it’s just that it (creativity) manifests differently for clarks, scotts and rogers:

clarks (the Outsider) genuine creativity as in bringing something totally new, unique into existence (yeah, we know what you’re thinking… good luck selling that)
scotts (the Predator) creative by virtue of their ability to get others to see what they (the scott) want them to see. (“Hey! Look at this!!”) think lead singer in a band
rogers (the Herd Member) creative by virtue of artful re-assembly of already known/accepted elements of reality. (think Stephen King stories that are told with nice, well-rounded words that strike a chord of recognition in most readers most of the time)

questions?

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Frisae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 23, 2026 By clarkscottroger 13 Comments

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

Let’s wrap of a rather productive week of Doctrine posts with some old-school provocative statements, assertions and ‘wth-are-they-talking-about?’

the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them

essential concept 1: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

essential concept 2: the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, culture and age neutral

when it comes to couples (we had a long, engaging set-up for this assertion, but it’s Friday (creative post-title spelling notwithstanding): the Wakefield Doctrine is not intended for use as a mirror-shaped club

you can’t get the Wakefield Doctrine wrong (and you can’t break it)

a scott is to a clark as a roger is not to a scott as a roger is to neither*

a scott alone in a room, isn’t

a roger alone in a room, is sleeping

a clark alone in a room is free

the Everything Rule: everyone does everything, at one time or another

ok… reminder this was the height of humor, back in the early days of this here personality system blog when we thought, ‘What can we do to encourage Readers to comment and, even better, ask questions. Our encouragement: “Just remember, there are no stupid questions. Just your questions.”

lol (Interesting inspiration for this joke. A quote from one of the giants of marketing, David Ogilvy, in the 1950s.)

Funny thing about comfort zones. We discover them on our own if we’re clarks, taught they exist by scotts and reassured that they’re not, completely a bad thing…by rogers.

Don’t forget! The Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop is recruiting Hosts and Hostinae… so send in your application or just go ahead and write and link one up now!!

Hey!! What’re we thinking??!! The TToT is live now! (Doors open 12:05 am Thursdays) Lets give some credit to them what don’t wait ’til the last minute to write and publish….

Cai

Aptivi

and…. of course, our frequent correspondent, Misky

They will be joined by the other Hosts and Hostinae over the coming days, stop in and say ‘Hidy’

*whoah! a new one… still true, though

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September 22, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

(To continue with our classroom metaphor…)

AP Level Wakefield Doctrine (“surely each of the three predominant worldviews are not saints/saintinae, right?”)

Correct.

We, as your Curator, would be remiss in our duty to disclose the dark side along with (“Are those the three?? I wanna be a….”) the more gooder side of human personality and social interactioning.

clarks are heartless, scotts are cruel and rogers are mean

Now that your individual inner critics have had a moment to shriek it’s outrage (purely on your behalf, of course) let’s say this:

“To know others is knowledge; to know oneself is wisdom” Lao Tzu (ish)

Why do we write such seemingly negative (and hopefully) provocative assertions?

For fun and engagement.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 5, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Our first dog, Ola. She was the epitome of the German Shepherd breed. Large teeth, welcoming smile.

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week those so inclined gather (in a blog-linkatory-way) and share lists of the people, places, things and events that merit inclusion in such a list.

It’s good exercise. Heart/Spiritualistically speaking, that is.

Our List for this week is:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

5) so, a week ago we told the story of the rock and in the course of it mentioned granite. Hostinae cai followed up asking if granite was used in the construction of our house. We said no but promised to find and photorize some residences that did use granite.

Note: for all you geophiles out there, the photo below was taken in the community (actually more a fire district/enclave) of Shelter Harbor in Westerly, RI

6) * someone. but maybe it was in a comment in their own posts. Likely suspects: Misky, Reelika, Chris (though I wouldn’t put it past Mimi to mention bookcases.) In any event, please proceed back to the Present and Grat #7)

7) ok, this is not funny… serially. someone in a comment (somewhere)* mentioned ‘Bookshelves’. So, naturally, our first thought was ‘Hey! What a great Grat!’ (Go back to Grat #6… hey, nowhere in the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules does it say linear causality most be respected) So say what you will about grand books and fiction about the tragedy of aging such as Cervantes’s ‘Don Quixote‘ or cinematic delving into the effects of time on culture and the ordinary as inspired by great books like HG Well’s ‘The Time Machine’.

Once the center of our everyday homelife, at minimum serving as jealous guardians bracketing our ‘tele-vis-shun’ the bookcases in our home, have now been relegated to… the laundry room, (didn’t see that coming Mr.-451-Farenheit-Bradbury’ didja?). Below is one of our two remaining bookcases. The five others, required to hold our four-hundred forty-four other books is pictured in Grat #9 (We mean, serially, who doesn’t hear Ecclesiastes 3:6 – ‘A time to keep, and a time to throw away.’ (Not stepping into your turf, Frank, but had an earworm of ‘the Byrds’ totally sneak in the room between typety-types.)

8) something, something

9) our new Ba’al:

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

*gotta comment here. Sure it was among the first ‘music videos’ (no, not video as we know it today) but still! They’re the fricken Beatles and no one thought to control access to the filming session?!?! More than once, if you pay attention to the background (through the hedges), you can see people walking by and …and! around minute 01:00 you can see the guitar cases they forgot to move out of the shot. Still, for some of us, sure takes ya back, no?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 15, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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. Running continuously now for over 79 years, this grat hop is one of the easiest ways to practice the cultivation of gratitude as a… self-development thing. Whatever. (As the most aggravating and annoying ‘wise man quote’ would have you believe: ‘If you have to ask the question, you wouldn’t understand the answer’.

For this week, our Ten Things of Thankful for us are as follows:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Speaking of prehistoric lifeforms! No, not your Humble Narrator. We’re talking turtles. (as opposed to tortoises as Lady Manila featured in her TToT last week,)… while doing our video of Dinosaur Alley we noticed a number of turtles, all Busby Berkeley* on a fallen tree. But without the sequined bathing caps.

5) New landscape project! A Maginot Line with the ambition to hold back very aggressive ground vines (photo). (Let’s agree to ignore the historically established weakness in this approach to resisting a more persistent force.) (See: Sand Castles: building against nature. op. cit.)

6) something, something

7) video of Dinosaur Alley (one of the paths down to the pond)

8) Friday is Movie Night. P said, “…maybe a romantic movie.” We said, “Sure!” ‘Warm Bodies‘

9) reasonably heated atmosphere for the week past, high 80’s

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* no! wait, you should be so grateful that you need to look-up ‘Busby Berkeley’ to appreciate our clever reference. getting old isn’t merely understanding the meaning of life, sometimes it’s making ‘young’ people laugh. (Like Floggie Rogers who used to stick out his dentures. Our five-year-old self, growing up on Martha’s Vineyard found that the height of humor.

music