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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 21, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

Man, Misky is on a roll! (No, there is no such thing as ‘too many apples on one’s desk, thank you very much’)

To her thought experiment:

I’d like to test a theory, please. Is there a rogerian genre of music? I could listen to Einar Selvik all day, and I often do, but I think this might be a scottian thing.

To prime the rhetorical pump, our Reply:

interesting idea.

(Allow me to be the strict Doctrinairien first: there are genre of music that will appeal to one predominant worldview more than the other two in a noticeable way. And, since I’ve never taken being strict to much to heart, there is the question of ‘is music created/composed by a clark/scott/roger distinguishable by virtue of composer’s personality type?’)

damn! (and thanks) your suggestion is totally deserving of a full AP level Wakefield Doctrine post.

in the meantime, an exercise: what do you think/what’s it make you want to do/how does it make you feel? its being this Einar Selvik’s music

ProTip: if one is inclined to explore oneself for the purposes of better self-appreciation, using the Doctrine is a fun way… this exercise, which can be found in most instances of taking up the alternate perspective of everyone’s favorite personality theory and use it illuminate parts of ourselfs that we usually don’t take the time to consider…

ok!

Before we start, anyone want to jump in?

Mimi:

It’s been such a long day I’m not so sure I’m following everything well. Maybe tomorrow.

(Saturday Morning Cartoon screeching car-tire sound: Here)

Thank you Mimi

Thank you Misky (for your patience in our less than maximally-focused Reply to (your) Primary Comment)

Hey! You wanna hear one of the lesser promoted benefits of learning the principles of this Wakefield Doctrine thing?

If you open yourself to it sufficiently to acquire a functional understanding, it (the Doctrine) will have an effect on you.

What? We forgot to tell you that?

No we didn’t.

(ish)

Just the other day, Denise, in her contribution to the TToT, Replied to a Comment by Ms. Pie who had mentioned how interesting a certain personality theory was (Hint: it rhymes with Wakefield Doctrine). By way of passing along one of the original Warnings to New Readers: ‘If you learn the Wakefield Doctrine sufficiently enough to allow seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in your own life, you may find that you are unable to not see them, in your everyday life.’

Good advice indeed.

What does this have to with our point? Think: Re-do All the Exam Questions Upon Hearing: ‘Five More Minutes, People’?

Simple.

If you’re a clark (or a scott or a roger with a sufficiently strong secondary clarklike aspect) then you have a drive to make sense of the world around you and the people who make it up.

So you go through your day applying the three lenses (the relationship each of the three predominant worldview maintain), to those in your life. Fine. At some point you’ll observe someone who has the same ‘personality type’ as you and… a moment after your cringe/laugh/sneer it will occur to you…

but we’ve said too much already. .

ed. we will return to Misky’s thought experiment as soon as we get back into concise, clear and direct mode’

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 18, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 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 (TToT) bloghop.

If you are so inclined, get you a list of the people, places, things and events that has made you say to yourself, ‘Damn! Glad that happened.’ Post that bad boy.

For us that’d be:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) new project: reconfigure corner of the lot the cottage is on. actually have a ‘Before’

6) Am grateful to remember to do a ‘Before’ and, subsequently grateful for the following ‘After’ ;} (hey, this ain’t my first TToT lol)

7) fun with words: Here’s the thing. Currently writing a Serial Six that has a number of characters on the trail of a mysterious ‘Time Mechanism’. Fine. My grat is courtesy for curious Reader, (and Six Sentence ‘hop writer Frank Hubney), wondering in a Comment: I’m detecting a connection between Anya Clarieaux and the Order of Lilith that I wasn’t aware of, but I might have simply missed it

So, we went back to the source (of this original intersection of fictional characters) and linked the relevant chapters. What was fun was finding a reasonably engaging story (‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘) that is consistent and supportive of the current serial story, despite having been written six years ago. (Of course, the subconscious mind is the ultimate pack rat and so we really should’nt be surprised. But then again, life itself is a serial story.)

8) something, something

9) the soon-to-be-mysterious ‘Floating Tree at Phyllis’ Treehouse’

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

Being a topic-less Monday, let’s do two things:

look to the comments to provide something of a pro tem topic or theme
return, if only as a brief review, to the topic of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool to aid in self-improving oneself
remind New Readers that the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up comprised of three personality types that are predicated on the character of the relationship one maintains with the world; there being three such relationships:
1. clarks (the Outsider)
2. scotts (the Predator)
3. rogers (the Herd Member)

No hybrid vigor needed, just a bit of inter-worldview fluency (or at least tourist level fluency)

damn! says it about all, don’cha know? and…and it succinctly refererences the whole point of learning this here personality here, to be better able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

I think that past is past for a reason and would not want to time travel even in these flashbacks

It was a good story:)

Reelika on: Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [“…our Sophomore, ‘In a River, Twice-Stepped’]

ty, R! the business of time travel is more hazardous that the old episodes of Star Trek made them out to be.

Involuntary time travel. Gosh, nightmare –Misky

Well said. ‘minds us of our first effort at writing fiction, ‘the Number You Have Reached is no Longer in Service’

Cynthia

She joined us on the Saturday Night call-in. A most excellent and spirited discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine and her latest youtube project…the latest of which is:

and… just in case one was tempted to underestimate the ‘all over the reality front’ of us at the Doctrine, today’s happy song:

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Twosday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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’