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Thursday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 27, 2025 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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?

* not a ‘real’ word

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Tu Threesady -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 25, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

What fun!

As we often do (and are ever so grateful for) we’re using Reader’s Comments to provide a theme (for a) Doctrine post.

First up, the Comments/Inspiration/Challenge (arising from) Monday’s post.

Secundus (no, not the Silent Philosopher!), the Comments in reaction/reflection/response/recidivism (lol) from three of our favorite Reader-Commentationers: in chronological order:

Denise (our edits for selfish authoritarian reasons):

Funny, this post speaks of learning to love our rogers and back then, I did embark on an active quest to “learn to love the rogers” in my life. More difficult with some than others, it behooves a clark to attempt this thing. Which is to say, observing/learning how rogers relate themselves to the world challenges us (as clarks) to step outside of ourselves and imagine a thing we’ve never felt, have not, certainly not innately, experienced. More specifically, with the Wakefield Doctrine as guide, as a clark I can understand the whys of a roger’s behavior. No easy task, but not impossible. Learning how things, events and such manifest for a roger takes a huge load off a clark. That is not to say it doesn’t necessarily excuse a roger’s behavior yet having the understanding of it goes a long way in allowing a clark to interpret more properly why a roger said or did what they did. Which then informs us how more appropriately to react, or not, to a roger.

Misky:

Well, now, this is just not on, this ‘saying, “I want that office… when are you leaving?” I see two possible avenues here: 1) invite him to sit at her desk, where she’s placed an inflated, extremely loud whopper cushion so that the entire office bursts out laughing hysterically at him … or 2) say something along the lines of “…coffee; white and 1 sugar … chop chop.”

Mimi:

I really like Misky’s second suggestion, but as noted, it might be best to try a different approach.

Thank you to the three above Students of the Wakefield Doctrine. We would say:

“Ego sum. Tu es.” (or) “Je suis. Tu es.” (or, even) “Yo soy. Tú eres.” (to avoid any accusations of chauvinistic parochialism): “O a’u O oe.”

All three are correct (or, to keep it as annoyingly subjective as possible), accurate.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a system of alternative perspectives on the world around us (and the people who make it up). Three and only three, to be precise. Three realities (albeit personal realities) but, then again, when you get right down to it, when is reality not personal? (No fair citing forests and unstable flora).

We could, with sufficient time, present the above scenario (in it’s original form as zoe was so kind as to offer for our consideration) and ‘translate’ the scene three distinct ways.

(Who in the back of the room shouted “Don’t ya mean ‘describe’ rather than ‘translate’??”) cue Jules Winfield: “Correctamundo!”

Now to hint at a discussion way, way beyond the scope of this post, we might suggest: The three comments are more about the author’s personal reality than the ostensible object of their observations.

ed. we’d considered offering a sample of three responses to each of the three comments, from the perspective of a clark, scott and roger. But, hey these guys are, in fact, on target and provide a very insightful…err …insights.

but, time-being-Tuesday, lets get all koan(ish) on this subject

The most difficult/antithetical/’no-fricken-I-could-live-in-this-world’ for each of the three:

clarks :: rogers
scotts :: clarks
rogers :: scotts

Ya know?

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 21, 2025 By clarkscottroger 14 Comments

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. Conceived of and manifested in the blogosphere by our Founderini, Lizzi R, it is a fun exercise in the awareness of and the encourgagement of the ever elusive (for some of us) state of gratitude.

The photo at the top of this post? Early morning’s night-time frost.

Our list this week:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Approaching one of the Big Three Holidays… the Feast of Saint Roger (see Grat 9)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Hypo-grat (at least the dog finds the temperature pleasing) And …and!! Zoom in there, behind the Husky…ice on the pond!!

7) something, something

8) only thirty more days until Summer!

9) Phyllis is a roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect. She enjoyed our impulse gift of a pre-Christmas/T-Giving tee shirt

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

November 11, 2025 By clarkscottroger Leave a Comment

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

So, what makes the time and effort to learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine worthwhile?

‘You will know the other person better than they know themselves.’

Wait… let’s see how the younger Doctrine curator would explain this here claim here.

the Wakefield Doctrine, the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers: what it can do for you today

January 12, 2013

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

With such an evocative Title, the educated and discriminating Reader would expect this Post to contain: a) at least one (set) of bullet points, b) 3 descriptive ‘3rd party stories’¹, c) a guarantee of success for all who try to use this ‘Wakefield Doctrine’ in their lives, and 4) at least one clever shifting of the perspective from which the topic is being presented.

…we’ll try.
It’s just that there is not a lot of time. This morning. Hell, there is not a lot of time right now, …this afternoon, ….this weekend 0r later in the month, (…after you get free of the holidays).
No time.
A friend told me that a friend had a stroke recently. The ‘stroke victim’ ( ‘strokee’) was seemingly alright, back to work. But he is saying that he finds himself dropping the ‘F Bomb’ with disturbing regularity. My immediate response was, “god, there is no time to waste, is there?”
Stop right here!

First helpful item: ….your response to the preceding vignette will aid you in establishing your personality type, did you think:

nothing…it took a second to get the implications of the phrase ‘no time to waste’ but then you totally got it

nothing…you were already picturing someone else as the victim of a stroke…so it was an interesting story, reminded you of something that happened last fall that was really quite similar

felt good, you had some kind of feeling that you were communicating… gone now, but you know it was real

a clark, a scott and a roger are in an airplane at 35,000 feet. One of the two engines bursts into flames and falls off the wing! the scott laughs grabs the controls of the plane and gets it flying on a level, if not descending path… the roger shouts ‘hey, you don’t know how to fly this plane!’ and the clark laughs to himself.
…3 minutes later the other engine simply drops off the wings, duct tape and rusty bolts trailing it as it drops towards the earth below!
the clark suggests: “hey if we decrease the weight one of us might succeed in gliding this plane to the ground.. but who here is expendable?”
the scott says, “sorry folks, I’m at the controls here, so clearly I must be indispensable”
the roger looks offended and says, “yeah but who voted you to be pilot?”
the clark (finding one parachute under a seat), opens the door and says, “I’ll let the two of you come to an agreement” and jumps from the plane!

If you understand the underlying principle of the Wakefield Doctrine and (allow yourself) to perceive the actions and behavior of the people in your life today through the ‘lens’ of the three personality types, you will totally gain a new appreciation of your relationship with these people, your spouse…your friend…your boss and your employee…even that really rude person in front of you in the line at the Supermarket. Just remember, ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them’.

“….hey!! that was frickin awesome!!! when that clark guy jumped out of the plane I couldn’t frickin believe it!!” scott
“well, I find your theory interesting and with a little work you might have something there”, the roger
” huh!” clark

1) in sales, to provide a prospect with a testimonial from a buyer or client, ostensibly neutral party is called a ‘third party story’ very effective!

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 29, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

A quick follow-up, a coda, if you please to Monday’s post.

We were discussing certain elements of the rogerian predominant worldview that, while not evident to the causal observer (aka victim), becomes an insight that is, with all due modesty, invaluable to pretty much every clark. (in the world) (ever). lol

These insights are evidence of the same serendipity that accompanied the realization that there are but three personality types (aka predominant worldviews):

clarks (the Outsider) ever searching for the knowledge that would permit them to be mistaken for ‘real’ people.
scotts (the Predator) always on the prowl, like a shark, to be still is to cease to exist (or, at very least, cease to be a Great White or King of the Beasts)
rogers (the Herd Member) ever seeking the center in a world of people who are either looking towards them or looking towards someone else; while everyone is related, the one being looked towards is more related than the ones looking towards

cool, right?

Anyways.

the fortunate insight into the personal reality of rogers was the concept of ‘referential authority’.

rogers be all, “It’s not me, it’s (everyone else / the Manual / the Bible / the scientific study / the SOP etc), you need to respect. But…seeing how I pointed it out, why don’cha go ahead and consider me the boss of you“.

There ya go.

Questions?