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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 22, 2026 By 1 Comment

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working on some technical issues (with this here site here) …standby

whew! that was a relief… just needed to update a couple of apps in the site.

quick RePrint for one reason: a) it’s easier to continue to write than it is to start to write and 2) why not a post about blogs from the Doctrine perspective.

don’t forget! tonight is Wednesday the doors open on the Six Sentence Story bloghop. so be sure to head on down!

the Wakefield Doctrine: a unique, useful and fun approach to personality types…(it will allow you to successfully predict the behavior of other people)

July 10, 2012

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

…a mighty bold claim indeed! The Wakefield Doctrine can, in fact, predict the way that any given person will respond to common, everyday, life situations. With an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, what is puzzling (and aggravating!) about the behavior of the people in our everyday lives becomes totally clear, (maybe still aggravating…but clear!)
While the Wakefield Doctrine is a very useful, insightful and revealing approach to a subject that is always on our minds, it is not such a serious, difficult-to-learn Personality Theory. Rather ‘the Doctrine’ is a fun way to know more about your friends and family members and neighbors than you ever thought possible. Here in this blog, there are pages listed that will explain each of the three personality types, but it is/are the Posts where the fun is meant to be found. All of these Posts are, in a sense, a long conversation about the Wakefield Doctrine, where it came from, what it says about personality types and human behavior…how to have fun with it.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all live in one of three characteristic realities: the world of the outsider (clark), the world of the predator (scott) or the world of the herd member (roger).
We have descriptions of the common behavior exhibited by the three personality types. The goal, however,  is not to just match the behavior to the person and then stop. Rather we look for characteristic behavior, then infer (from that) the nature of the personal reality that the person is living in and then we know way all about that particular person. If we have correctly inferred the worldview of the person (as being the world of a clark or a scott or a roger) we can predict how that person will react to any situation!  Pretty cool, huh?

Enough of the knowledge, lets get to some of the fun!

(With apologies in advance to Jeff Foxworthy)

If you immediately stop surfing the channels because you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger

If you love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott

If you find a pamphlet stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.

Asked a question and you start your answer with “in the beginning…”  you might be a clark.

Someone gets your name wrong and you answer to it without correcting them… you might be a clark.

As a child building model cars, you made sure that the extra parts were put back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.

You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark

You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott

You think that the 107 episode,  Directors cut, 15 DVD un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes (including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger

If you have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement, or  any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.

You are at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including, but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.

If you are contemplating a project of any sort; building a deck for your house, writing a term paper or planting a garden:

…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark

…you must know what your friends on the ‘do it yourself’  shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger

…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU ITS DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott

That will be quite enough for today. In conversations with the Progenitor roger and scott, I have maintained that the best new rock music is coming from the country guys… I wonder if Ronnie James knows that Jason seems to have appropriated a certain hand gesture…lol

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Friedae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 10, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

Well, this week’s Doctrine posts have been a fun! Charitably subtitled as: Comments-as-thesis-posts-built-around-them-like-bent-nail-scrap-lumber-tree-house-of-a-momentarily-unselfconscious-clark.

Shout-out to Frank for his (un-intentionally provocative Comments that provided a flat square of scrap plywood to be found at the edge of the metaphorical swampy-marshy area of the terrain of weekdays during Summer vacation) when we resolve to remember to explain to new Readers this wonderful(ly) alternative perspective on the world, reality and our commitment to getting through the day… ‘in language that everyone here can easily understand’

Friday?

Summer School?!

well, it would be cruel and unusual (well, cruel, anyway) to not treat any New Readers to a filmstrip! (ok, a video. and if the term ‘filmstrip’ carries any meaning to you, well, welcome to the Hypo-youth Culture! lol)

here ya go

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

Well, do you?

Well, before we get into what that word is, about today’s video Post.  Pretty good, right?  You will be Commenting in the form of a video (though audio is acceptable), won’t you?  To reinforce the ‘message’ of the video Post, we are totally serious about the fact that when we talk about personal realities we mean real…. reality. Not… “well I feel like yelling out during a movie!” or ” I think you look great in that dress and no one will notice your complexion, believe me”  or even  ” I really will work hard on getting a job, it will all work out for the best.”

We’ll revisit this aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine more frequently going forward, as we now have Considerer and Michele and (the others) asking the hard questions.

So the word.

It’s an innocent enough word. More than innocent, this word is often considered to be one of positive meaning and intent, a hopeful word, an optimistic word. But as a loan shark is to your local bank, the price of the loan is always higher than the value secured.
The word is ‘maybe’.
In the hands (or on the tongues) of clarks, the word is meant well. “It is a good job, maybe I’ll get it“. Perhaps because, when clarks look at the world we see people and institutions, groups and family members who, while certainly not intending us harm, (they all) clearly know something that we don’t know. “Maybe I don’t want to be a doctor, maybe I really want to find my own way”. The words we use when describing the world we find ourselves in, are  picked with the hope of blending in, looking to be a member or, one of the guys/one of the girls. “I think I should ask her out, maybe I’ll wait until a better time” “How many times do we have to discuss this, maybe next time you’ll listen to me”

Not really sure what it was that struck me about the use of the word ‘maybe’, it just seems that it has a certain resonance when employed by clarks. It is a word that lets us ‘commit without committing’, a word designed to insulate us from disappointment. clarks fear disappointment almost as much as we fear fear. More in a way. Fear can be run from. Disappointment is a sentence of reduced possibility. And if clarks are anything, we are people who believe that having possibilities is the difference between a possibly happy life and a life where we still have options. In a sense, as long as we have the possibility (of something) there is hope.  Maybe.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 3, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

Short, little post. The Fahrenheits are piling up outside, like benign snow drifts in the hated Winter.

In any event.

Who said, ‘Yeah I’ve read enough old Doctrine posts to mutter, ‘rogers‘ as I drive around a gaggle of serious bicyclists filling the roadway as they flash corporate-logoed spandex and genuinely-silly little round mirrors strapped to their heads. And scotts? Anyone can spot those Tasmanian devils. They the ones with the gallon-sized can of Kingsford charcoal lighter fluid.

Everyone with a secondary clarklike aspect and a sense of fun that using this Doctrine thing out in the world requires.

This Post is about clarks. And the fun of knowing the Wakefield Doctrine

So we dropped our car off at the dealer for routine maintenance. The drop-off (and pick up) is, basically a two lane space inside the building. Pretty standard procedure:  big-assed auto-rollup door opens as you approach, pull forward, turn off car and a tech opens your door asking you leave the keys in the car. Along the left side of this large space, a row of chest-high stations behind each of which is a service manager. Six stations, four service people this morning, all rogers… except for one.

At the last in the row of service manager stations (or first in the row, if you’re coming in from the showroom) sat a young woman. Probably twenties. Brown hair, disorderly ponytail, semi-wire rimmed glasses, minimal makeup (at least as far as this Y Chromian could tell). As we stood waiting for my rogerian service manager, (Brandon, ikr?), we glanced to our left (at that last station.)

We were struck. Possessed by the following thoughts: ‘clarklike female’ (and) ‘A quiet stillness that is almost palpable’.

Had Paul of Tarsus been dropping off his Q7 at that moment he would totally have said, “Pretty blinding insight, am I right?”

Mind you, this is in an automotive service center. Kinda lots of different noises, i.e. my guy Brandon, a couple others on the phone, the entrance door rolling up and down and yet her… quietude simply encased the area around her.

damn!

Ain’t this Wakefield Doctrine fun!

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 27, 2026 By 13 Comments

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This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Each week, bloggers are invited to join this exercise in the study and cultivation of one’s innate capacity to experience the psycho-emotional state of gratitude. It’s not for the faint of heart. Do not, we repeat, do not read further unless you’re willing to see things differently. ’nuff said.

Below is our list of Ten Things of Thankful for this week in June, 2089

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story blohop

5) the Six Sentence Café & Bistro  an imaginary Café in the virtual world frequented by fictional characters… sorta like Rick’s Café Américain in that old movie ‘cept no Nazis, easier to get to and populated with more creative and attractive ‘people’. While a description of the physical plant (and location) is well-documented in these pages (mostly in Comments) the thing about the Café is its perseverance, persistence and consistency. Write you a visit (aka a walk-on) and anything goes. The beauty part is a) you don’t need to spend much time on establishing location and 2) you won’t be alone.

ok, you twisted our arm(s)

The building is in an under-redeveloped section of a mid-sized city. Granite, brick and cast iron are the predominant building materials.

From a somewhat busy thoroughfare in the nearest medium-sized city, look for the side street where the last-remaining cobbler has a shop, (next to a seamstress with a sign in the window ‘Wedding Gowns on Consignment). Continue walking until you come to a lane (sidewalks now reduced to one side of the street only) and the buildings are growing larger, emptier and made of granite and brick instead of glass, steel and indifference. The road you’re on seems to broaden (as much to the empty lots of a once thriving industrial area of the city) and up on the left is a lane where the sidewalks are somehow cleaner, less pink-bubblegum splotched.

The Six Sentence Café & Bistro is in a building, (former textile mile if you must know)… non-descript but clearly well-kept amidst hulks, shells and remnants of the discarded infrastructure of a long-gone industrial engine.

6) update on ongoing landscaping project

7) fricken rabbits which is not quite the issue. these are Millennial rabbits… carefree, running around on the lawn at all hours and totally without fear of predators (two legs or four) seriously, when we go out to chase them away from the front of the house (where a Husky is literally bouncing off the picture windows) they’ll like sit there until you get within arms length. they just don’t care!

8) historical Grat  roadtrips as evidenced in the photo at the top of page back in 2010 or ’11 or so we did yearly trips to Salt Lake City for a business convention. This photo is of us at Meteor Crater in Arizona. (And yeah, we continued down Rt 40 and stood on a certain corner. Hint in music vids)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Teusday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 23, 2026 By

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RePrint1 Tuesday. aka clark’s Day of the Workweek. It’s called this because the level of scrutiny* has declined from Monday and the get-settled-in Wednesday is a day away. (Thursday is, arguably, a clarklike day and Friday, well might as well hand the scotts some textbooks (to throw in the air) as it is, for our rambunctious friends, Weekend Eve.

Well, seein’ how we were gonna make this an easy Wakefield Doctrine post, lets find something for listening music (not excessively ear wormish, but, you know, hum-able aka ‘jeez those ’70s what did I do to my brain?!!?))

 

*every clark’s kryptonite and existential ‘Kick Me’ sign acquired during the endless two years spent at William Golding Junior High School. scotts and rogers can skip this poignant reference to an aspect of the formative years of most Outsiders because a) you can’t appreciate it (even with a raging secondary clarklike aspect) and 2) yeah, you other two do remember but, as every post always tends to subtext, “I believe you be. I remember it differently. (Little reward for Readers: mention the word  ‘achronologic’ in your Comment and we’ll totally include you in a Muse-link in tomorrow’s post.

it’s garbage day… no time to make up a new..er Post! the Wakefield Doctrine (hey…lighten the hell up!)

November 14, 2014

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

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“...the ego of a clark is a thing of subtle, yet supreme majesty. clarks walk the earth, desperately hoping that, as in the fables where a king dresses as a commoner (the better to know his subjects), they will be accepted into the homes and hearts of the people they meet. and they are, in part,  because the commoners, ‘the real people’  are not fooled by the clark’s attempted disguises. the joke is on the clark because the bosses/ the teachers/ the girl at the gas station/ the co-workers/ the lovers/ the friends/ the spouses and the people-we-really-can’t-seem-to-get-along-with…. everyone that a clark naturally meets in the course of the days of their lives, knows (or suspects) that clarks are not the king in disguise. and, even though they wonder why the clarks believe they need to disguise their true natures, most are happy to play along, choosing to accept us with our quirks, recognizing our innate good natures.” (the book of the clarks… Wakefield Doctrine)

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Hey!  lets do a re-print Post!!! (I fear I’ve said too much as it is),  from November 13, 2012…

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of personality that you get to enjoy with your friends and them, before it gets all famous and mainstreamy and everyone will know about it)

Question: If your husband is a roger and you are a clark, is it true that they never accept how much you have changed over the years, since you first met?
Answer: Too true1

(Welcome to ‘ya shoulda just asked Tuesday’! We will be presenting some common questions and the semi-comprehensive answers…along with a little commentary, mostly to let us get away with dividing the page into block quotes.’)

Question: My best friend is funny and fun to be with, but sometimes when we are around other people he gets like, mean even goes and picks on me. But this happens only with certain people, this big kid that (my friend) knows. What gives?

Answer: Chances are your friend is a scott and the person that, when they’re around, your friend starts acting mean?…well, that other person is a scotttoo, but they are what we call dominant (to your friend). So your friend, even though he is picking on you, doesn’t mean to hurt your friendship… it’s a pack2 thing, you know?
Answer: jeez, if you say so

(This question deals with the changing pack order (from the scottian perspective) and it’s effects on the behavior of a scott. Note: this question (and by implication, the experience cited), will most likely be posed by a clark. Do you know why that should be?)

Question: My fiancée and I are getting close to the Big Day. When we first got engaged, we both agreed to keep the ceremony and everything on the quiet, low-key side, but lately, ( the wedding is in 3 months), she has been talking more to her sisters and some of her old friends and it seems like the guest list is getting bigger and bigger. What gives?

Answer: She is probably a roger. Forget about changing her mind. It means a lot to her, in a way that you will never understand.  So relax! Sneak a couple of your friends that she might not have approved when the guest list was small, she probably won’t even notice now, and if she does make an issue of it, say the following to her (word for word): “I understand how important family is to you now. And even though I am not close to my family, you have shown me that my feelings3 of friendship with (fill in the names of you friends) make them like family. Won’t you let my family join your family …darling?”

(And there are those who would say, ‘Hey Wakefield Doctrinaires! Sure you have a uniquely clever take on personality types, but what about practical applications? Huh, what about those?‘ Well, here ya go! Who cannot not identify with this situation? …not counting the rogers, of course!)

Question: My boss is nice enough, but it seems like he tries too hard to be, like my friend or something! Every day it is ‘how are you doing?’, “is there anything I can do to make your job easier?” I mean, all the time! I can’t get any work done when he is in the office, he is always offering to ‘help’! I might be able to deal with this, except that every time I do get some work done that he needs to sign off on, he always finds  fault! And if I come up with something on my own initiative (he likes to say that he wants me to try to ‘think outside the box’) he is either totally negative or acts like he is amazed that I actually did it myself!  Should I quite my job?
Answer: Probably.4

(This Question deals with a scenario that is all too common. And, although we do not propose that all bosses are rogers, we will say this, ‘If your boss is a scott you have: a) a good time everyday up until the day he decides that it is time to change careers or b) a lead pipe cinch of a sexual harassment lawsuit, so the day you get tired of her shenanigans, ‘it’s sayonara see ya in court’
If your boss is a clark, then we know the following: a) if your clarklike boss is female then her boss is a roger, if your clarklike boss is male then his boss is a scott!  and b) they (clarks) make great bosses, will stick up for you totally against all opponents, but jeez! enough with the leadership by consensus! Get a set, yo.

That music referenced in the Title of today’s Post? Totally weird. I’m sitting and watching TV and a commercial comes on and before I can hit ‘MUTE’ I hear the music in the background (of the commercial) and I’m off to the great and omniscient google… and here we are

1) rogers are about consistency, if they are about anything at all! The worldview of the herd (rogers) maintains that history, tradition, continuity…consistency is of the greatest good! The worldview is also one in which the individual’s relationship with the world-at-large manifests primarily in emotional terms. So when a (lasting) relationship forms, the details of ‘the other’ person are important, in a sense, manifesting the emotional investment. So, as time goes by, even though people change and grow and develop, the roger will still insist on seeing the ‘original person’

2) scotts, in the initial behavioral metaphor: like pack animals, i.e. wolves, dogs, lions and such. The social ranking in the pack is one of simple dominance, an alpha at ‘the top’ and everyone else in order of strength/prowess/capability downward from there. It is a primary characteristic of the scottian personality type to establish ranking when entering a new (social ) environment. Literally going from person to  person, figuratively pushing them on the shoulder in order to establish ranking

3) emotions! always play the emotion-card when dealing with rogers!

4) you could try to…nah, don’t even bother.  Maybe if you got to the Doctrine sooner, you might have learned enough to invoke your own rogerian aspect to re-configure your work relationship… but too hard, too frustrating, easier to get another job. But then again, most bosses/middle managers/supervisors/Principals are rogers!  so maybe you should be asking about the Wakefield Doctrine School of Self-Improving Oneself…school

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