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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

a manifestation of the creativeness of Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia. See 1) note-of-pedia at bottom of post.

Another RePrint!

Plus, shoutout to them what write Comments and contribute to the conversation, looking (for today) at Mimi an Misky and Ms Pie thanks!

A word to New Readers:

The beauty part of the Wakefield Doctrine is how true and accurate it is when describing the personal characteristics and behavior of it’s three personality types, aka predominant worldviews*. That said, a little fun-with-our-imaginations is required here. One word: personal reality.

And in practical terms, only one of three. The reason for this aside yo, is a thing called ‘the Everything Rule’. Simply put, (and we’re telling you now so as not interrupt the lyric flow of this narrative lol) the Rule is: Everyone does everything, at one time or another. Obvious right? (if you answered ‘of course’… you’re in the right place.) The thing about the Doctrine is that while it describes how one (of the three types) might react/respond to a situation in a characteristic (and therefore consistently reliable manner), that doesn’t mean that… running out of time. Damn. What it means is that there are not three separate and distinct categories of life and such. There is no, “oh! That is something only a clark would do.” or “Only a scott would experience that situation.”

Remember how we said each of the three predominant worldviews reflected a different personal reality? It’s true. But in the interest of preventing the rogers from embarrassing theyselves by saying: “I must be a new, fourth, personality type. A special ‘all three at once’ type. To this we say, “No. Stop that. That is simply not how this thing of ours works.

We use the term ‘manifest’ to account for the fact that clarks, scotts and rogers do not inhabit three different realities. Try this:

Occupation: police person (aka ‘cop’). All three can be a cop. What the reality of the occupation is? Very different for each. We’ll leave this as a homework assignment. (Hint: ‘Predators love to ___ prey’, ‘With a lot of ____ and other special effects’, When successful they totally enjoy ___(ing) their kills/captures.

there ya go. let us know if you have any questions. While it is true that ‘You can’t get the Doctrine wrong’ It is very true that a person can’t willfully mix shit up. Thing of it is, we (and this means all those of us who think this is a useful, productive and fun additional/supplemental perspective on reality?) we’ll know. And, in answer to the thought-balloon question out there, ‘No. No one is going to correct you. At least not ex cathedra. The only cost of getting it wrong is that you miss out of the utility and fun. Kind of the whole idea, ya know. (Usually when a person ‘gets it wrong’ they figure it out or just don’t bother. After all it’s just a blog. And a little tiny group of people who get a kick out of the strange and unusual.)

the Wakefield Doctrine (…break time!)

November 10, 2009

Apropos of nothing, one of my favorite sayings is ‘you can’t step in the same river twice’. If this internet, and by extension the blogosphere is not the perfect proof of the truth of this statement, then I am going to sit here and wait for roger to get it into his head to write some more Comments. Because even though the Wakefield Doctrine itself has not changed, if anything the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers has become even more ‘real’, the writing and therefore the writers have been changing.So what? I’ll tell you so what!
I am writing this prima facie that there is a reader. You, in fact, are that person. (You read therefore I have written). Without this assumption there would be no reason to write. Independent of the practical value of the Wakefield Doctrine in terms of understanding those around us, the drive here is to be heard [read:read ha, ha]So if we are writing this on the assumption there is a reader, then whats the river shit all about? Huh?(I said ‘apropos of nothing’ didn’t I?) But since you asked, the point I guess is to get a sense of the fundamental impermanence of reality. The fact that there is nothing of the past that immutably connects to the present. Only our willingness to assume that we all keep to our scripts.I think that noise you hear is the baleful mewling of a herd of rogers. Rogers, as we should all know by now are the guardians of continuity. By maintaining the past through rules and science, laws and traditions rogers let us learn! More so rogers are the reason we are self aware. Scotts are pure energy, here and now, no past no future, not much to build a civilization on. By keeping the belief that the world is by nature a quantifiable place, rogers allow us to stop and reflect on what was. Myths and legends are as important a contribution from the rogerian faction as is the science and engineering that they also have given us.(Quick break.) (Hey clark, easy up on the metaphysics there, pal! The rogers are getting glassy eyed and the scotts are starting to gnaw on the furniture)(OK, I get. Anyone for Bullet Points? (Everyone loves Bullet Points!)

rogers are your engineers, accountants, doctors (but not surgeons)

rogers are your carpenters and craftsmen, (but not your General Contractors)

rogers are your teachers (at least the ones that end up becoming school adminstrators)

scotts are your performers, your front men/women

there are three occupations in the world: salesmen, scientist and machine operator

scotts are your salesmen, not necessarily literally, just the person who is driven to make others conform to their Will

clarks are your scientists, the creative one of the three, looking for what isn’t, not at all concerned with practical application

rogers are your machine operators, not just engineers, but musicians, any one who needs to follow the rules

OK.

Time to get back to the show!
When we last left her, roger was sidling up to the scottian executive. Thinking that the wind was to her back she would be safe. But in walks a clark, making a fearsome racket of ‘why is this?’ and ‘what is that?’. Drat! the scott has caught a scent.
Run away! Run away!

*ProTip: get used to using the term predominant worldview. It will make learning (and more, way more importantly, enjoying our little personality theories. Hundreds of posts have been written on this subject, but real quick: the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the relationship we maintain with the world around us. As in, like, right from before we could even talk. We’re born with the potential to have three, settle on one and, here’s the key: develop our social strategies, styles of interpreting the immediate world (babies at this point, remember?) and practice. In other words our personality type. We’re fond of saying, ‘In terms of the Wakefield Doctrine’s view, we all have the perfect personality type on the basis of the world as we experience it.

1) You can buy Cynthia’s delightfully whimsical coloring book HERE

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Wedneszdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 3, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Well, yesterday was fun. More fun, in fact, than might be apparent. Stemming from the Comments of our Readers

While we did not get back to respond to them in the course of the day, they certainly are worthy of another look.

Pardon us for being ‘all over the place’ in this post.

(If we must blame someone, let’s agree to blame Mimi)

Why? Why not Misky or Frank or even Reelika?

Because she has that capacity to …not stop the room. …not say a thing that inspires one (and then 66 percent*) of the individuals in a crowded room to say, one decibel short of a shout, “My god! We’ve got to get out of here! Now!!”… no.

(You know the thing we say about how one of the three predominant worldviews manifesting true creativity and how the nature of that (creativity) is to bring into existence something that simply was not of the world before they did what they did? Well, the thing about that is that that ‘place’ where they got it is/was not bound by any rational metric. It’s here and now, not there-over-here. And …and it’s non-chronologic. Bottom line, others of this particular predominant worldview feel the echoes when one of their kind is hurt or in pain (however for-the-moment) even if they’s not aware of the person or their creation. ya know?)

and so we have two music vids that share something and the result is two-out-of-three Doctrine personality types muttering, ‘Well, guess we know who has a lock on this month’s John Cage 4-33 Post Writing Award.’

So, in closing, embrace chaos up until it begins to unravel your next to last inner sweater.

Don’t forget! Tonight is Six Sentence Story Eve.

For a special treat check out the ensemble(ish) Six that Chris started with her Six Sentence Story last week!

* there is an accepted ratio of clarks to scotts to rogers in any given population** 66 represents the rogerian component

** remember! The Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral, culture neutral and any other subdivision of humanity free

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

Regular Readers know that, of recent, we’ve divided up the week into posts by subject (or perhaps, more properly, of arenae of special interest): Monday through Wednesday the principles, application and good practice of the Wakefield Doctrine as an additional perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up); Thursday (with option on Friday) Six Sentence Story(s); Friday open topic and Saturday the TToT.

(well, that certainly qualifies as ‘stem-winding’ although, if truth be told, a liberal application of italics would be in order. The history of the phrase is…)

Wait. A. Minute.

The history of the phrase, or, more properly the inference from the process of researching the etymology of it, is a good example of the differences between the three predominant worldviews!

attend:

Having spent twenty minutes on the internet looking up and otherwise trying to learn the origin of the phrase ‘stem-winding’ (or, ‘stemwinding’):

clarks (the Outsider) would ‘feel good’ in the acquistion of a new and hopefully accuate understanding of the phrase; the rub being: it does not quite conform to their understanding (of the phrase) prior to their inquiry; lets be charitable and simply do (on movies it’s kind of a trope to have a block-lettered stop appear, for us lets go with ‘CONFIRMATION BIAS’ lol*
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

jeez Louise! sometimes being gifted with insatiable curioisty is not such a good thing.

We went in search of an image of a Patek Phillip watch, (’cause they had a hand (arr arr) in the genesis of the expression ‘stemwinder’ and that lead to reading about the most expensive watches sold at auction and that, naturally lead to reading up on Duchenne muscular dystrophy which produced a side-trip of blessedly short duration to inquire about Gower’s sign and, finally back here.

damn! still gots to complete the one part of this terminally-prolonged post that relates to the Wakefield Doctrine (hint: bullet points)

*our confirmation bias in this case is a memory of the use of the phrase. it was in a description of an old-time politician standing behind a podium before a crowd and deliberately, if not ostentatiously, taking out a pocket watch and making a show of winding it, the effect on the crowd is the realization that the speech would go on and on**

** who just said, “So, you were right about the phrase!!”***

*** ha ha

the least we can do is post some engaging, if not dated, music¹

1) you’re really thinking ‘I wonder what the link from this post to the choice of music is?? Click away, just click away and we can stop typing lol

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

‘you talkin’ to me?’ (see Grat #7)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Foundered by Lizzie R in 1887, this bloghop has consistently topped the lists of ‘Ideas That Need To Have The World Catch-Up’. But the concept was the key. (Remind us to tell you the story of the very, very beginning of this bloghop and how the required time to create and post a TToT list was drastically altered.)

Below are a list of Ten people, places, Things and events that have triggered a grat attack since last we posted.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story blohop

5) follow-up photo on last week’s landscape project (an After-after)

6) speaking of landscapes and pine forests, we’re grateful for a woods that goes from ‘oh, how nice a garden‘ to ‘damn, hate to have run through this some night being chased by one of Nature’s scotts!

7) the photo at the top of this post is of a cow at Farmer Brown’s (not this Farmer’s ‘real’ name) We used to take Una for drives past the farm for her amusement.

8) something, something

9) Update on the frontlawn Meadow

ikr? a bit greener (which if put in the context of the last week or two of mid-March weather), I’d say that’s pretty darn encouraging

10) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) specifically, Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Frydey -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 1, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

…the Wakefield Doctrine, besides being gender and culture neutral, is age neutral.

This is a very intriguing aspect of our little personality theory. Actually it, (the immunity to the effects of longevity on manifestation of characteristics), is not only interesting, it also serves to reinforce the basic tenants (lol… and tenets barum bump!) of the Doctrine umbrella.

To this point: since the Wakefield Doctrine’s division of all humanity into three personality types, (aka predominant worldviews), predicated on the character of the personal reality we experience, one might reasonably assert that we, all of us, have developed/acquired the perfect personality type… for the world we live in.

ed. that we’ve chosen a clark-centric RePrint in a post ostensibly about how the Wakefield Doctrine manifests at various stages of life, (aka growing, maturing and otherwise acquiring experience), is probably more telling than we’d like. But, what the hell, today’s Friday.

clarks -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘hey, I’m good enough for my friends…so the heck with what you think’

September 16, 2015

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

(As so often happens, here at the Doctrine, a phrase popped into my head that seemed to be a whole Post…provided I could put into words the feeling that were [embedded] in said phrase. When I wrote today’s Post subtitle, I immediately had two thoughts, a) Readers are going to misunderstand and respond by saying, ‘aww, don’t feel bad, we all think you’re doing great’ and 2) I really need to get back to this kind of post, one that is written to the clarks who are encountering the Wakefield Doctrine for the very first time. And, of course, c) my own re-appreciation of how much things have changed since I first started writing this blog… not the content and nature of the Doctrine, rather the nature of the readership and, even more germane, the changes the Wakefield Doctrine has wrought in my own self. So, what say I give it try?)

When I was young(er), I retained an unshakeable faith in two things: a) my friends and b) my capacity to endure and survive. Now I am no longer younger. More to the point, (of this post), I am now possessed of an understanding of my predominant worldview (clark/Outsider) and that enables me to see a lot more of the ‘why’ of my behavior and beliefs, actions and responses to the people and the world around me. This is an improvement. This knowledge, this insight into the way that ‘I relate myself to the world around me’, does not, in and of itself, change anything. It does, however, make any desired change much more attainable and sustainable. That is the good of the knowing of the Wakefield Doctrine.

The title today? (And the introduction above, that suggests that perhaps writing a Post to appeal specifically to the brand new clarklike Reader, might be more difficult than I think?) All of what underlies, and thereby giving rise to the sentiment manifested in the subtitle remains true in me, in all clarks. I still have the …. er…. not so positive self-concept that is the initial premise shaping the worldview of the Outsider, and I still, very much value the friends that I have. Most of us, (including rogers and scotts), will recognize, in the second half of the sub-title an implication, a… ‘yes but’, a ‘hedge’, if you will, on the claim to being valued by others. There is something to the way the statement sounds that is a hallmark of the clarklike personality type. It’s necessary to a clark, this ‘hedging’ of a claim of self-worth or value (to others), a pre-defense defensive, if you will.

You want a physical example of what I’m trying to convey? (It’s also a primary characteristic of clarks.)

Watch a clark smile. Most of time, especially when ‘in public’ or not in a totally secure environment, which is pretty much everywhere except bed or the bathroom, clarks will smile by compressing the lips, putting a slight upwards motion to the corners of the mouth, while watching the other person very carefully. Hedging their bets. Being careful. Keeping the escape route viable. You know, as an Outsider, we’re all about interacting, all while keeping an eye on the door. Find me a classroom, I don’t care if it’s First Grade or Grad School, if the individual student is allowed the choice of seats, you will find a preponderance of clarks in the back row. Near the door. And while one might think that this choice is simply to avoid being noticed, one would be almost correct. It is, in fact, to provide the option to escape, to not be forced into the focus of attention.

That’s part of what the clark personality is like. Tomorrow we may look at scotts, ( ‘I think, therefore I scream‘) or perhaps rogers (‘there is no ‘i’ in herd, there’s only me and everyone like me’)

Since I’m doing kind of a old-style Post, I thought I’d include a music video, well, just because.*

*excuse me!! excuse me!! because, well, holy shit!! (lol) you want to know the real, totally-honest-to-god reason why I find writing Doctrine Posts so ….so incredible? Ok, so I’m finishing up the final edit and I decide… sure, lets keep the music vid, because I love the song. The last thing I needed to do was to find the ‘cover photo’, you know, the Post’s thumbnail that shows only on the landing page. Well I think, ‘lets look for an image associated with Grieg and ‘the Hall of the Mountain King’, (today’s vid)…at the top of the results page is a link to the wikipedia, so naturally I go to read it ( I’m a clark, remember?) anyway, here’s what jumped out of the screen at me, it made me laugh:

The piece is played as the title character Peer Gynt, in a dream-like fantasy, enters “Dovregubben (the troll Mountain King)’s hall”. The scene’s introduction continues: “There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown and sceptre, surrounded by his children and relatives. Peer Gynt stands before him. There is a tremendous uproar in the hall.” The lines sung are the first lines in the scene.

Grieg himself wrote “For the Hall of the Mountain King I have written something that so reeks of cowpats, ultra-Norwegianism, and ‘to-thyself-be-enough-ness’ that I can’t bear to hear it, though I hope that the irony will make itself felt.” The theme of “to thyself be… enough” – avoiding the commitment implicit in the phrase “To thine own self be true” and just doing enough – is central to Peer Gynt’s satire, and the phrase is discussed by Peer and the mountain king in the scene which follows the piece.( italics added) (wikipedia.com)

…no!! really!! lol man! do I love this Wakefield Doctrine!