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Twosday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

sure, we got a last minute reprieve from the Dentist (wrong day… god’s way of smiling on his more intractable creatures), doesn’t mean we don’t need to post a Post today.

from the Archieves

Too(s)day the Wakefield Doctrine ( “I think Tuesday is the cutest (of the) Workdays! …like a 2nd date, so full of promise, yet such a potential source of suffering!”)

November 11, 2014

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

so, yesterday we wrote a Post that was built on the following promise:

So here’s what we’ll do: I’ll write a couple of hundred words about the value and use of the Wakefield Doctrine on a typical Monday morning. I’ll stop writing, take a quick shower, get dressed and start my work day². After an hour or so of work, I’ll come back here and ‘re-write’ this post. Let’s see if this ‘oh-my-god-can’t-you-see-how-incredibly-useful-and-fun’ theory of personality accounts for any change in my day.³

Fine. I’ll tell you about my day and the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine. I won’t attempt to re-write yesterday’s Post, for the obvious reasons. (Actually all I want to do is try and come up with something clever (and a touch risqué ) about the character of Tuesday). But promises are promises (unless they are threats, and then you need to be more careful of clarks than scotts or rogers by a long shot!)

In the middle of the day yesterday, I had occasion to interact with people I had never met.*
I walk up to the front door, (noting that a person was coming towards the house from across the yard), and knocked on the door. a scott answered. I knew she was a scott from: a) her eyes** and 2) she smiled and stepped forward at the moment of introduction, ‘Hello, I’m clark from….’ ( I laughed to myself and thought, ‘god! I loves this Doctrine’ …and increased the volume of my voice, shortened my sentences and cranked-up my (level) of eye contact.) The meeting went well.
The person I noticed walking across the lawn towards us? (who I ignored because I needed to establish a relationship with the dominant personality) another scott! (he was there to help with the move…) he had no legitimate role in the interaction. Thing was he kept coming back into the room where I was talking to the scottian woman. lol ( you ever watch a bunch of puppies playing as a group? one is always trying to establish ranking***) That’s what this guy was doing. He walked into the house, didn’t introduce himself by name, (because he was a member of her pack and therefore not alpha), but nevertheless was trying to see if he could establish dominant ranking on me, (which would have enhanced his relationship with her, of course). I mean you could see the energy as he walked, pretended to be a part of the conversation, walk away and then come back in…. I did not allow myself to be distracted… it was fun to watch.

Anyway…. that was my Day-with-the Doctrine.

Tuesdays… your favorite Day of the Workweek?

* it was a meeting with transitioning tenants. I was there to make sure everything was being left as it should (by the parties leaving), so, not necessarily an adversarial interaction. That said the potential was there, as I was representing the interests of the owner of the property and the people I was dealing with were representing their own…

** new Readers? not such an impressive deduction… a primary identifier of the scottian personality type is in the eyes, ‘the gaze’ to be more succinct (read more on the Page on scotts… suffice to say, ‘a scott is never not paying attention to what’s going on around them’.

*** another primary characteristic behavior of people who live in the world of the Predator… the drive to ranking, striving for dominance, but not attaching importance to being the alpha, as much as it is necessary to know where one stands… the pack social order

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Wendysdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 28, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

(Interesting how difficult it is to pronounce today’s post title: Wendysdae)

Which brings us back to the Wakefield Doctrine (as always).

Which of the three predominant worldviews/personality types exhibit the best enunciation of words less common.

hah!

Today being Wednesday, we’re in the mode of completing (or, sometimes, trying to come up with content for our Serial Six Sentence Storys*) and not always into the more generalized thought….whatever

So back to the question for our three predominant worldviews:

clarks (the Outsider) fuck enunciation…clarks embrace mumbling like fricken Thomas Jefferson signs shit… so clearly even Sally Hemmings would approve… mumbling is not incidental or accidental, it’s a hedge.
scotts (the Predator) hell yeah… they’ll pronounce the crap outa words… not for nothin’ but scotts know words, even fricken tough ones like condominimum (lol)
rogers (the Herd Member) Friends, Romans and whoever else in the area unable to appear to be on the phone or called away on an emergency and have to leave the area un-noticed and without fanfare! We have a ~~Wiener~~ Winner!

*each week Denise hosts a bloghop called the Six Sentence Story. It’s thing is to offer a prompt word and (within the restriction of being only six sentences (ish)) invites one and all to create a fiction…ette.

Now, as the story goes, after a spell of writing one-off stories, some among the reg’lars succumbed to the temptation to write an on-going story, a plot if you will. By doing so they felt they’d circumvented the ‘hops sentence limits, all quite on the up-and-up, mind you. The result would surely be approved of by ‘Charles the D’. (Although the tech was still 190 or so years away.)

These Six Sentence Dickenettes included Marilyn and Liz H-H, Denise, Keith and Chris and Frank. Now Mimi and Reena; they do more SOC (in the manner of a Diarist) but like they say, ‘Show me a Narrator, Reliable or Otherwise, and I’ll Show you and Engaging Character’

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Twosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 27, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Since we had so much fun with Doctrine Road-Trip videos yesterday, lets enjoy some more.

Why yes! To the one in the back of the class (or… maybe the front row, though we don’t insist on seating by height), this is like a Snow Day post (series). (Remind us to remember the time we were locked in a dormitory for three days by an ice storm.)

Here ya go.

(oh kay… New Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective… on the world around us and the people who make it up. On the basis of the individual’s relationship to the world (in the whole, reality-sense) there are three personality types:

clarks (the Outsider) … the name. people…tells the whole story, aiight?
scotts (the Predator) …better not let him, little ole lady got mutilated late last night (sound it out…trust your imagination)
rogers (the Herd Member) come up and write on the blackboard in front of every one 2+2 always and can only equal 4… as many times as necessary

we good? sure, it’ll be on the test Friday…if we ever get shoveleld out

self-development, 3 personality types and the Wakefield Doctrine (oh yeah, damn almost forgot! Video Friiidaay!!!)

September 16, 2011

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

There will come a time, in the not too distant future, when people you know, will come up and say, “hey! I just heard about this Doctrine thing, and it’s supposed to be about personality types, but they have these hats and this guy travels around the world and takes these really strange videos and talks about rogers and clarks and scotts! Those are the names they have for 3 personality types…yeah…I know….but it’s true! they have pictures and charts and stuff and when I looked around at people here at school or at my job, there they were! Anyway, they said this Doctrine will help me change anything about myself that I want…and it’s true….”

…and that will be very cool, but you are here now and you are watching this thing of ours, and I am including you in the use of the word ‘ours’. With a Wakefield Doctrine hat (on your damn head) and a little patience you will be a part of the growth of the Doctrine. Of course, writing a Comment wouldn’t hurt either!
As we all know, to be a ‘personality theory/self-improvement tool’ ya gotta provide proof that it works! Alright, then take a look at these here videos here:*

Then on to the other Crossroads:**

…Tell me quick where I can get rid of these things!

* l

*look at the geocoding of the location…damn Highway 61
** look up the legend of Robert Johnson and the Crossroads

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2222zzzDei -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 2, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Let’s pick up where we left off yesterday..

clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

Yeah… no! wait!!

Friend of the Doctrine Mimi commented (yesterday’s Post) and it helped immensely to bring more of a focus to our discussion

It’s not what is said, it’s what’s heard, and therein lies both the potential, and the problem.

There!

So how does our friend’s observation help us in our study of this here personality theory here?

Let’s start with what we know and infer what it would be good if we did know!

The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that not only is personality a function of the character of our relationship to the world around us (and the people who make it up), but the reality we experience is fundamentally different. So:

a clark, having a relationship with the world best described as (being) an Outsider sees those around them as possessing knowledge that they, the clark, lacks. clarks are eternally, if not compulsively curious. and though this is often view as a healthy attitude towards learning new skills and such, it is, in fact, a drive to acquire the information that the others (scotts and rogers) have that they lack.
a scott relates to the world and life as would a Predator. hungry all the time, and not simply because they need sustenance. rather they are voracious due to the fact that they realize (on a subconscious level) that there is only the present and the world is one of eat or be eaten. ….metaphorically, of course. lol
the roger knows the world is nearly perfect. the only thing lacking is compelling evidence of just how large the Herd (of which) they are a Member is. rogers days are like that child’s swimming pool game of ‘Marco Polo’ in which the person who is ‘it’ must close their eyes and find and ‘tag’ the other players in order to be released from being the blind one. they call out ‘Marco’ as the other players must respond with calling back ‘Polo’ That is as succinct an example of the dynamic of a roger’s passage through Life

There you have it! One Half of the Lesson on ‘What is it the Wakefield Doctrine allows us to do that is better than any of the other system, including but not limited to the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, the Vedas and the Book of Mormon.

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Thursday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

So, guess this gives proof to the notion that we, all of us, have within, all elements of the three predominant worldviews that make up, (as opposed to ‘make up for’), the personality theory continued/exhibited/manifested and otherwise made available in these pages.

New Reader? Tempting as it might be to try to take the position that given how irrefutable it may seem that at one time, (or another), you clearly exhibit the primary characteristics of one (and then the other (and finally, well, would you look at that! the other)) personality types.

It doesn’t work that way. One predominant worldview to a customer. For life.

Why? Well, look at it this way: the fundamental tenant (or is that, tenent?) is that personality type is a reflection, indication and evidence of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them (and the people who make it up). It is our experience of reality (Hint: that of an Outsider, a Predator or a Herd Member) that shapes the self those around us witness.)

It only makes sense. The primary job of the infant human is to develop successful strategies for survival and thrival* Find yourself in the reality of the Outsider and you’ll learn to learn (on the down-low) and to keep a low profile; look around at the (metaphorical) savannah of Life that seems to be nothing less than an Open-Air McDonalds, (mostly burger ‘n fries-seeking-lifeforms but…cruising the vast Parking Lot (of Life) not a few bigger (and hungrier) Predator types… you get the pitcha. Anyway… the Doctrine only works with this three-way symmetry. So why would one want to argue against the premise? oh yeah, there are always Herd Members in the crowd.

Enough of this!

RePrint! RePrint!!! Reprint!!?

Full Disclosure: had to read a bunch of Doctrine posts to find the Original T-Giving Post. Ever one liked it so much, the electrons had barely faded-out when I was all RePrinty. In any event, here ya go from (don’t do the math!) 201o

J’accuse!* that turkey did not commit suicide!…the Wakefield Doctrine Holiday-style

November 23, 2011

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) on this eve of Saint rogers’s Day!

Thanksgiving Day¹ is the holiday that, if we did not already know that there exists a personality type referred to as a roger, someone would have pointed it out to us. Perhaps the task would have fallen to an Art Professor in a land grant college somewhere in the Midwest. We can imagine the epiphany …in the middle of the night (during his sabbatical devoted to the study of the works of Norman Rockwell),
” My god! Norman’s work is not just a robust and healthy celebration of paedophilia! He has been trying to tell us to transform our culture! …for all good Americans to come forth and show their appreciation of patriotism, consumerism and child-abuse!!”

We have, from time to time, been accused of indiscriminate use of hyperbole in these pages, however, just consider the astounding level of pervasiveness of the ‘Holiday of Thanksgiving’. It is not enough to close the Post Office system and all other government agencies², no it is not. This Holiday actually attempts to compel normal, rational, adult people to sit in front of the television and watch a Parade involving giant balloon representations of out-of-print newspaper cartoon characters! Who the hell watches the Macy’s Day Parade on purpose?!? Throughout the entire morning of Thanksgiving, you simply cannot escape the pageantry and spectacle, broadcast live and has, as the ’emcees’, News Anchors from the major networks morning news shows! ( “Thats right, Matt! That’s Kenny Chesney and Taylor Swift on the Snoop Dog float… it says here that her eye makeup took 12 hours and 6 pounds of aluminum foil chips to create!!” ). Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting done in ‘live-action’, the whole country is exposed to hours and hours of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade… more than 3 hours of parade music and floats (” … hey, Anne isn’t the next float from your hometown”? “That’s right Al! it’s my old Alma mater, the East Clydesdale High School Marching Band playing a medley, ‘Straight outta Compton’, ‘Fuck tha Police’ and ‘Gangsta Gangsta’ )

Why do we say Thanksgiving is the most rogerian of all holidays? Simply because Thanksgiving is about the how, not the why. As a cultural event, this particular holiday tells it’s participants exactly what to do; what to eat and how to cook it! Taught from childhood, every member of our culture knows precisely how (and) where they are expected to spend the Holiday! Thanksgiving is about family! And if there is anything that rogers fake better than anyone, it is the joyful appreciation and celebration of the family.

But don’t just take our word for it! Following is an excerpt from a Post of the Wakefield Doctrine that was written over a year ago! (and nothing says credibility better than…age)

We all know that “the holidays” are experienced differently by each of the three (clarks, scotts and rogers) and therefore the demands of the celebrations are a very effective illustration of the nature of each. But if there was no Thanksgiving, a roger would have invented it! (Actually, they probably did). Think about it! A holiday celebration that is:

based on a factual historical event (sort of)

the protagonists (of the story) are religious refugees, persecuted and driven away, together, on boats

food, specific food and a not-to-be-deviated-from Menu

ritual menu and a full schedule of events

shopping in herds, as the climax of the celebration (Black Friday)

a moral taught to the young: we came here, those strangers who helped us were different, (…we had a feast and wiped out their culture)

I will be so bold as to suggest that there is no more rogerian a holiday than Thanksgiving! And since we are on the subject of rogers and holidays, (sort of), is there any human activity that is more one sided, over-hyped, ‘expectations-sure-to-fall short’, (not counting sex on the eve of a relationship breaking up), than Parades? I don’t care if you’re a trombone player in the middle of the herd or someone sitting in their living room watching it on TV, nothing says roger better than Parades!

* As a result of the popularity of (Zola’s) letter, even in the English-speaking world, J’accuse! has become a common generic expression of outrage and accusation against someone powerful

1) the Day that the indigenous people of the North American continent made a gift of their lands and cultures and cuisine to their new European friends.

2) you do know about the Post Office and rogers, don’t you?