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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 24, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Here’s one of the simplest descriptions of the three predominant worldview (‘personality types’) of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clarks think, scotts act (and) rogers feel

Here’s one of the simplest overviews of the application of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine:

The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral.

Finally,

Here’s one of the simplest test-to-elicit-self-identification (vis-à-vis) as a clark (or) a scott (or) a roger:

How Much is Two plus Two?

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: clarkscottroger, personality types, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 22, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Comprised of ten people, places, things (and) events that have inspired, generated, elicited and otherwise caused us to experience the state, (as ephemeral as it might be), of gratitude. As this is, by all accounts, personal and third-hand, a positive activity, we encourage all within sight (and sound) of our words to stop in, read, comment and all the other reasons you might have for spending time in the virtual world.

And, if the lists that you encounter here at the TToT resonate or otherwise cause you to think, “Ha! I’ve felt like that!” or “Man, them too??!” or, even, “Jeez Louise!! Those Doctrine people… wait, they’re the current host!?!?! No way. Heck, I could write to that level, just have to remember back to junior high!”

For those of us in the curator’s office at the Wakefield Doctrine, the following list of grats:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge:

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop:

6) the forecast of temperature today is partly-cloudy with a chance of above-freezing temperature

7) work (real estate) allowing us to see (and photograph some interesting properties) see Grat #8

8) technology… simple pocket camera (while not on par with, say, Kristi or Misky’s excellent use of photos in TToT) some of our other co-hostinae (Dyanne, Mimi, Denise, Lisa) might say, Hey! Where have a seen a sink like that before!! lol

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: psychology of personality, relationships, self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine

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

February 21, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise, subject to the Rule of Six.

Previously, in our SSC&B story…

Prompt Word:

WIND

The tall, thin man exhaled blue-white smoke towards the man opposite him in a non-adversarial challenge to the cloud bank of cigar smoke through which Lou Caesare’s eyes could just barely be discerned.

“As your host, I feel the need to apologize for the interruption by the non-invited and, might I say, rather naïve visitor currently skulking down along my bar.

The Proprietor’s voice, while neutral in tone, carried sufficient interrogative lilt to both assure and invite input from his guest as he continued,

“And, as much as I’ve enjoyed our conversation, I’m certain you have pressing matters back at your establishment; perhaps moderating a colloquium for new associates on advanced techniques in loan collection and bad debt recovery,” the tall, thin man smiled in a manner reminiscent, perhaps, of Mr. Rogers… upon being informed that Lady Aberlin had tossed his luggage and stereo and stuff out the window of her home in Make-Believe-Village.

A vaporous tsunami of laughter rippled like wind through the cloud of cigar smoke,

“Not for nothin’ but modern hypo-legal lending organizations such as mine prefer ‘payment enhancement of non-performing debentures’ over ‘which hand do you write with’.”

Lou Caesare, glancing to the right towards the bar, spat on the floor and leaned forward, allowing his jacket to hang looser on his left shoulder and continued,

“My aunt Rosalina, god rest her soul, used to tell us young kids the story of La Signora del Gioco; a spirit who could manifest itself in various forms, usually as a ghost or as a huntress, while at times it appeared as a beautiful girl who lived in the woods, dressed only in hair, with a look capable of bewitching people.

Now, I’m as respectful of the old ways as the next guy, but I kinda think that caliber and muzzle velocity stacks up pretty good against curses and witches, ya know what I’m sayin?”

Filed Under: Fashion Center Tagged With: personality types, Six Sentence Story, the Wakefield Doctrine

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

February 20, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

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

Hosted by Denise, subject to the Rule of Six.

Prompt Word:

WIND

…”I’d be twisting the ends of a comically-long mustache and saying, “Or else.”

Closing my eyes, the other senses claimed dominion over my surroundings: first a zephyr of ‘sweet’ (the-way-candy-should-be-but-invariably-disappoints), scent of maple syrup sublimating against the griddle-hot surface of a stack of pancakes; then, a treble-splash of metal utensils against china plates and cups, the subtle assertion of a symphony orchestra tuning up, kitchen-shouted orders and family conversations, all in the key of Eat; finally, from what is surely the most under-rated sense, taste, in the harmonious cacophony of chemosensory exclamations to the brain, at first oleaginous ambrosia of perfectly cooked bacon.

As I’d hoped, this stepping out of my real-time interaction cued up a memory of a now-deceased zen master who, seeing me wind myself up in noetic bindings, would smile and say, “What it is, is all that it is”.

“Listen up, Mr. Peabody,” resisting the impulse to laugh at my erstwhile captor-slash-time-traveler guy’s confusion, I pointed the outside-arc of my coffee mug, first at his face and then, in an enthusiastic pan around the room; bonus from my Achilles’ waving his shield on the plains of Troy.

“The illusion was well done, so well done that the average person would have bought into the whole, ‘We’ve taken you back in time, how scary are we?”

My time traveling captor actually started to fidget and while I was beginning to enjoy his discomfit, I was also starting to get not just a few nostalgia-flashbacks and, in a very real ‘Speak the Truth and Shame the Devil sense, I was getting uncomfortable with long buried memories;

“So, here’s a tip that your script-writers didn’t read their Heinlein:

“Even if possible and time travel were real, you’d of tried this, heard me tell you to go fuck yourself, knew that I meant it and then would’ve decided not to bother at all.”

Filed Under: Fashion Center Tagged With: Six Sentence Story, the Wakefield Doctrine

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

As promised to Friend-of-the-Doctrine, Nick, here is the story of an insight into a predominant worldview, well beyond simple extrapolation of common characteristics offered by the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Discovery of Referential Authority.

While a great deal can be inferred about the subjective experience, (of Life, the world and you know, reality), by our description of each of the three predominant worldviews, there is only a certain depth, ordinarily speaking, to which we can descend, to wit:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

beyond this level we rely on the willingness (and ability) of people of each group to report out, well, basically, “So, what’s it like being a ….

We can live with that, ’cause when it comes to know about the other person, the Wakefield Doctrine, is on a certain level, without peer. We mean, well, damn! Does your Myers, Briggs and Stratton system afford you an understanding of a person sufficient to: offer insight in a roger’s heart by suggesting you agree with them (even if only for the moment) or that it is usually a bad idea to get into a Truth or Dare game with a scott or, recommend that in a public forum, it might not be such a good idea to ask a clark to come up to the front of the room and answer all your questions (well, and expecting a good outcome).

running out of time

compressed version:

We once wrote a scenario, a fictional restaurant in which a job applicant shows up in the middle of the noon/lunch rush for an interview. Told by the over-worked manager that they would have to wait, the applicant stood by the coatrack at the entrance and watched the organized chaos of a successful restaurant. We then proposed to Readers three actions available to the interviewee and one of these was: seeing how the staff was overwhelmed and people were starting to leave the line for a lack of seating as some tables were still full of dishes, the applicant should take it upon themselves to clear (‘bus’ in the terminology of the restaurant biz) tables, the kitchen area being accessible and open for such a purpose.

The response was amazing. as in, wth?! People were writing comments: ‘They can’t do that!!’ “No way the applicant should get hired” and “How dare they take it upon themselves to interfere like that?!!”

(Have we mentioned how the existence of the Wakefield Doctrine is rife with examples of serendipity, aka luck, gift? Well, yeah. guess we have, first example being the Eureka Moment that started it all.)

…in any event, we realized that not only were virtually all the comments expressing outrage, most of it was coming from rogers. But it was the intensity of their emotional response that remarkable. Even to a clark! (lol)

We realized that rogers (the Herd Members) have within their world a concept we termed: Referential Authority, This is evidenced whenever a roger wishes to exert (uninvited) power on others. “That’s the way we’ve alway done it,” an “It’s SOP. I didn’t make it up, its in the manual (which) Everyone here (at this workplaces) calls it the Bible” and … and “I bring you, not my thoughts and ideas, but the Word.”

Like that.

and the cool thing? This insight is way farther into the reality of the Herd Member than any clark or scott might infer from the everyday descriptions of the relationship between rogers (or clarks or scotts) with the world around them and the people who make it up.

New Readers: Read the easily accessible descriptions of the three personality types until you got ’em cold. Then, we’ll totally bet you’ll be able to extrapolate new descriptions of the three personal realities of the Wakefield Doctrine,

Fun!