TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 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 bloghop (TToT)

Each week the word goes out that there is a standing invitation to bloggers and other writerly-inclined people to link their list of the 10 (+-) people, places, things and/events that inspired the feeling of gratitude in them. There are no limits or requirements in terms of time or space (of the cited Grats) just the spirit of good intent. Go!!! Bulldogs!!

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Doctrine as a topic of conversation last night. Attended a birthday party for a friend. Among the guests, work-friends of hers I didn’t know. At one point, the guest-of-honor said to the group, “I’ve tried to explain the Wakefield Doctrine to the people at work. not sure if I done it right.” At this point the group goes silent, kinda looking at me. Then someone (from the work friends) said, “You explained it fine. I just don’t see which I am,” and turned her attention on me. (Spoiler Alert: I could see she was a roger). So I let the silence grow and said, “That’s all right. I do.” and said nothing more. (lol)

6) technology (subset: video clips to insert that say better what we’re thinking than is possible given our limited abilites)

7) Other Doctrine-related insights from last night’s social occasion. It wasn’t until this morning. when we were talking about the evening, that I realized there were only two scotts in attendance. And, looking back I realized they sat as far from each other as possible. Damn! How cool is this personality theory of ours. [scotts upon meeting another scott will challenge each other for the purposes of establishing ranking and then divide up the territory (and resident prey lol). Alpha gets first choice, of course.

8) something, something

9) vicarious gratation* MIa with her head in the snow. of course!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word,

vids

(forgive us for lacking the skill to effectively write an intro to this music that follows. We still have the endlessness of the current winter in mind when we thought, ‘the Vienna Young Girl’s Chamber Music Ensemble’ or something. hey it was funny in our heads.)

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…a short, quick Doctrine post, ’cause of a Reader Comment, don’cha know”

February 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

Sometimes New Readers, they be sayin’ ‘Hey, I believe this Doctrine can be fun and useful. And I get that you say ‘Do your Reading’. But there’s like thirty-five hundred of the fricken’ things. How ’bout you give a Reader a break? Like a Clift Notes thing.”

We hear you.

Examples to see the Doctrine (and it’s three personality types: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) are all around you,

The key is to indulge your imagination.

Yesterday, Commenting on this post, Friend of the Doctrine Misky say:

ps: TSA — I am always impressed by their ability to wear self-possessed importance. Goes to show what a uniform does to a person.

Being a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect allow us to preface our remarks on how her Comment is nothing less than a total open book exam on the Doctrine:

“Hey, this personality theory, it’s not for ever one. Not only do you need to enjoy applying your imagination to the everyday world, you need to have the confidence to, as a scott might, ‘just run with it.’ If you don’t get it, we can say with confidence that it’s only because you’re suffering from hypo-clarklike aspect.’

That’s all we care to say.

To today’s topic: Read: ‘TSA‘ (we’ve all been through security check points at airports…or have seen them in a movie or on TV) then… ‘self-possessed importance‘ (now here our correcpondent is being….somewhat charitable). Finally the clincher: ‘Uniform‘.

We are presented with an archtypical illustration of a less admirable manifestation of the rogerian predominant worldview.

Grade your own exams.

Ask question.

(Like we used to say in early Doctrine posts, back in the beginning when our scottian aspect might have shown more clearly, you know, before the ameliorating effects of associating with the likes of Mimi and Cynthia, we’d be sayin’ ‘There are not stupid question, just your questions.”)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

February 12, 2026 By clarkscottroger 15 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously…

Prompt word:

MARK

“Ian, Ian, Ian, I swear you’d forget your head if it wasn’t sewn on to your shoulders.”

It wasn’t how I could hear my mother’s voice so clearly over the span of a lifetime, it was how adamant I was, at the age of ten, that I’d checked all the possibilities and accounted for everything that mattered.

I laughed out-loud, which didn’t endear me to the people ahead of me at the TSA checkpoint; one of the 21st Century’s iterations of the ‘Mark of Cain’ included laughing inappropriately in an airline terminal.

Ever since waking up next to Leanne, ok, soon after waking up… I had a feeling I was forgetting something terribly important.

On the second try to reach Hazel, I got a message, “Your call cannot be completed as dialed, there is no service in that location, idiot.”

Moving the phone towards my pocket, I heard, “Final Voice Mail” then Hazel’s voice, “Ian, if you see anyone with an odd mark on their hand, it’s a charagma; I’m trying to run down the old myth, might have someone here who can help, will call when you get to Chicago.”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

February 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 16 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously…

Prompt word:

MARK

The Six Sentence Café & Bistro, in the middle of a weekday afternoon, is not that different from any other café or bistro, bar or, for that matter, big city hospital Emergency Room; open whenever the need arose, (for a café or bistro, a bar or trauma care), always ready to provide for the thirsty, hungry, desperate and/or dying who might happen to cross it’s threshold.

“Miz. Grover, what a unexpected pleasure!”

The tall, thin man, wearing mid-grey worsted wool trousers from Dege & Skinner, a blue, button-down shirt courtesy of Turnbull & Asser and an apron from one of Mimi’s nephews (who owned a successful rib joint in NOLA), stood behind the bar that ran down the right-side of the room from just inside the entry vestibule; the lighting hijacked the colors of the liquor bottles lining the shelves behind him, while a solitary Tensor lamp at the cash register supplied a reassuring, if not monochromatic contrast; most men, the majority of women and all the undecided who happened into the Bistro at this moment could not help but be impressed, if not a little intimidated by him.

“Please, call me Hazel.”

The woman, single mother and part-time receptionist-slash-admin for Desiderata Investigations and Conflict Resolution, Ian Devereaux’s detective agency, was dressed less for what circumstances she expected when starting the day and more for how she felt at the time; of those she interacted with in a typical workday which could range from lawyers to college professors, hookers, waitresses and business owners, all would remember her at the end of their day.

“What can I do… Would you happen to…” the spontaneous two-person interlocutory collision left the woman and the man standing next to the remains of their questions; the only marks on the victims: a sharpening of one’s gaze and a hint of a smile on the other as they resumed their interaction without feeling the need to involve the authorities.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

to continue from yesterday’s Post, lets stick with the basics.

Better yet, let’s answer the question on the minds of 2/3s of Readers* ‘Why go to the trouble of doing all that Reading when we can go buy a book on the Oscar Meyers Briggs Random Letter system or (and this guy we actually did love back in grad school days) William Sheldon‘s ‘Constitutional Psychology’?

One reason: 1) the Doctrine is a fun and effective to understand people and such, more importantly, B) applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, we are better able to appreciate the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Which, quite neatly, takes us back to ‘the Everything Rule’. We all experience reality as it manifests relative to our predominant worldview. There’s a rather long metaphor, (maybe a simile, probably not an analogy), about the three friends standing across the street from a popular restaurant in the middle of the noon rush. Won’t go into it here, but obviously the three are a clark, a scott and a roger. (New Readers! extrapolate what is going through the minds of our friends on the basis of their being: an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member. Write your questions below)

The thing we say about learning the Doctrine is that we strive to be fluent. That is, like any other ‘foreign’ language, the more we practice it, the better we know it, the smoother the ‘translation’ is… the goal of fluency being the capacity to think in the (foreign) language.

as Hamlet says to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy… you wanna know how many things? well, do you? come on!! I know you want to know… just ask me!! Come on.”

What the Bard left out: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) each with their own characteristic personal reality

all right, we’ve said too much already.

* 2/3s is far too charitable a number to designate the percentage of those here, (more than twice), relative to predominant worldviews. the accepted percentages of the three ‘personality types’ of the Doctrine in the general population are: 66% rogers, 10% scotts and 23% clarks