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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

(I’ve called you all here on a matter of grave concern…..lol)

Let’s do a ‘This is a football‘ post.

Thanks, Vince. Love the work with the collegiate-commercial complex and, of course, the shoring up the patriarchy behind most institutions.

We do not come here to praise football, but to bury it under a pile of rogers.

ok. Monday morning now.

Sticking(ish) with the theme, lets see how we wrote it eleven years ago (?!?!#^?? eleven. years. ago!)

the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the people in our lives, that can, when properly applied, lead to understanding them in ‘additional ways’. By ‘additional ways’, we mean… ‘what am I doing that is an integral aspect in how they are acting?

(…. “Ladies and Gentleman this is ‘an inflated leather spindle torus’” sorry, lol… I was trying to write ‘the speech’, but thought about the ‘setup’…post game speech… locker room… various states of dress…demographics of the current readership…. me standing on a bench (in that locker room)….lol) wait! wait! let me try again.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective. It’s a way to see the world, it’s a way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives. It’s not an Answer, it’s a Question. And…. (hey!! Val!! please!!! no leaning out the window and shouting at the people in the CVS parking lot!!! come on! they’re on serious, old person/sick person business!! thank you. ) the Question is: ‘how does my spouse/the girl at the 7/11, / the Teacher who is shaping my 7 year old’s life/ the people I read about in the news… how do they appear to be ‘relating themselves to the world around them’?’ The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we all live in a personal reality (aka worldview) that is characterized as (one) of the following:

live as ‘the Outsider’ (clarks) always apart from, different, trying to understand what it is they don’t understand, trapped by the belief that it is about knowledge

the world of the Predator (scotts) seemingly confident (always looking for threats and opportunity), active and impulsive running into doors as often as gallantly opening them, protective and paranoid

the life of the Herd Member (rogers) self-assured, as the world of the roger is one that is quantifiable/(and limited), knowable/(and ignorable) ordered and simple… searching only for ‘the Right Way’/ missing the enjoyment of the un-expected and strange

What the Wakefield Doctrine refers to as ‘personality types’ is simply the skill set we develop in order to successfully cope with the reality that we find ourselves growing up in and living our lives in … (‘no Kimberly… we can’t stop for donuts…. we have to drive to Galilee next…. yes, Lisa I will try to walk on the water… very funny’). So what we are saying with the Doctrine is this: understand the three worldviews, infer how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them and they will do the rest. No, I’m serious! Ask anyone! Once you start to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, they will ‘act the part’ to a degree that is sometimes a little scary. But fun.. The goal of all of this is: to try to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

It takes imagination. It takes the kind of curious mind that not only is capable of, but enjoys imagining that a person is a Predator (figuratively) or creative perfectionist or… or even the person who is ever the Outsider, but always manages to be a part of…secretly, of course!

…ok everyone out! we’re back.

No, they’re not.

Back ‘then’, that is. They are long distant in the Before Time.

Let’s wrap this up.

The Wakefield Doctrine, (besides being a perspective), is a tool and an amusement, an insight and a diversion. This because, at the core of the Doctrine, at the heart of everyone’s favorite personality theory, is the belief that all reality, on a basic and not overly-grand level, is personal. A view that no more diminishes the common sensibility of ‘reality’ than reading Shakespeare makes one the Bard.

ya know?

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 31, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Good Morning, class.

New Readers? Please open your, ‘Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine’ booklets that you received at orientation and read quietly to yourselfs.

Today’s post is very much AP Doctrine.

A topic, hell, a thesis has been suggested by our Friend cai. Her Comment:

Rogers and Scotts are wary of bloggers trying to promote bloghops. I have to search for my herd.

Thanks! cai

This Comment embodies a number of opportunities to advance our understanding and subsequent practice (of) the additional perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up) that is the Wakefield Doctrine.

where to begin….where to begin…

What we believe we know about our correspondent is their goals/methods to solve a problem using the Doctrine:

First cai feels she is a roger (“I have to search for my herd”) ok, nothing(ish) wrong with being a roger. (lol)

In the spirit of our Herd Member friends, lets get all bullet-point on this bad boy/girl

first, though, one of the original ‘Rules’ of the Wakefield Doctrine: you are the only true authority for designating your predominant worldview. no one can compel another to accept an assignment of (one of) the three personality types. that said, it is common practice to name others for the purposes of education, illustration and edification. these people, usually celebrities, are not in the room at the time
we accept cai’s self-designation
the unspoken challenge here is huge! this Comment/Question/Statement of Personal Reality is in writing. In a very real sense that makes it simpler, if not easier, to parse
everyone! take out your three phrase books (“I think they’re speaking a language I don’t understand” and “What the fucks the matter with these jamokes?!! oh, yeah I get it… sure, I know that word!! This is fun!” and “What’s wrong with these people? Wait. A. Minute. They think their bunch of words is a language. First thing is organize the nouns and verbs and participles. Then we can help them understand the Right way to speak!“)
ok… this horse (Jument, Equus, Caballo. 馬) is totally beaten into the ground
lets leave off with a few Doctrine tools for determining predominant worldviews… nah, lets go with our single most favorite and efficacious one

Ask the person the following question. Note: this can be done in writing or in person. The latter is preferable as you can see their reaction in real-time and know if’n they’re trying to game the system. The former, (in writing), is still useful but requires a higher level of Doctrine understanding. Their written response will tell us what they really think/do/feel. In fact, when dealing with communicating through a Comment/Reply format there is a single insight that will always indicate a roger on the other side of the interaction. Being way, way advanced a Doctrine insight/tool, it is available only by email. Not as a Comment/Reply

The Question:

How much is two plus two?

Answer key in the first Comment here (later) today.

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 30, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Slow start to the week. Let’s ~~employ~~ deploy some rhetorical caffeine, i.e. a RePrint post.

(We do, in fact, have several topics on the back-burner, courtesy of our various friends, Readers, students of and writers of note.)

but… (an old science fiction writer, who’s name escapes us…. sorry, how lazy of us! this is the fricken internet! (Internet Motto: “Lots of free diversions while the end of civilization is being completed! What do you mean. ‘Not So Funny’?)

While we’re on the topic of clarks… there’s a movie we recommend to clarks (and scotts and rogers, provided their secondary clarklike aspect is way strong): ‘Love Me‘ All we’ll say is, ‘Damn!’

ok! found the author Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) the story: ‘The Proud Robot’. (thanks out to James Wallace Harris at ‘Classics of Science Fiction‘

Well, we’re a bit more on a tool-fabricating-level of sentience for the day… but since the post title does reference a RePrint, far be it from us to leave ya hangin’.

the Wakefield Doctrine: ‘you’re already practicing the core Principles, you might as well get something for all your efforts’ (…yeah, even some fun!)

March 25, 2013

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

The reason we say,  you’re already practicing the Principles is that, as a personality theory, the Wakefield Doctrine does not start with a person answering questions, filling out a survey or questionnaire, reporting likes and dislikes, lying about weaknesses and strengths, exaggerating the things others like and hate about us. No. In a funny, you-guys-really-are-weird kind of way the Wakefield Doctrine doesn’t really care what the individual thinks their personality (type) should or could or might be. Nope. This here personality theory here does not need to know that.
…as a matter of fact! You don’t even need to involve the person that you are about to know (better, in a way) than they know themselves. You see, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

But I’m getting ahead of us. We’ll come back to this ‘you mean I can know my boyfriend’s, my Teacher’s, my wife’s, my boss’s, my kid’s personality types and I don’t need to ask them to help?’ in just about a paragraph. First, the Principles that the Title of today’s Post says you are already practicing.

The Wakefield Doctrine is all about how a person relates themselves to the world around them. Notice the odd wording, I did not say, ‘how a person relates to the world‘. Because that’s only one dimension, in a sense a description of what happens as the person goes about their life. We say, ‘how the person relates themselves to the world around them’ because it is not simply a choice (about how to act, what to do, how to feel about it), it is reality. What we refer to as a worldview.
In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, we all live in a personal reality, aka our worldview. This means that my reality is different from yours. No, nothing weird… no screaming vegetables, nothing shooting across the sky, no flying without the help of technology, but different nonetheless. And it is the way our worldviews differ that we find the value and utility in our personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we are all born with the potential to experience the world from one of three ‘perspectives’, living in one of three worldviews, if you will. And what most people call ‘personality types’, we know as the appropriate behavior, given the world that a person finds themselves experiencing. (Remember! personal reality as in ‘real’ and ‘reality’ not  “just ’cause you felt like it, or I think I will choose to act like this, she deserves it….”) The three characteristic worldviews are:

the reality of the Outsider (clarks) not ‘because’, not ‘well, you should speak up more’, and definitely not ‘well if you didn’t act so weird, people would get to know you and you would have an easier time in life’ this reality is simply one in which you are here and ‘the world’ is out there. (For our clarklike Readers this last statement is sufficient, the rogers and the scotts might nod and look understanding, but will never get it)

the world of the Predator (scotts) of the three personality types, scotts can be the easiet to deal with- they are energetic and active, enthusiastic and mercurial helpful and very dangerous… the saying here is: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel’. scotts are the life of the party and the reason the police get called, scotts are your best friend until someone who they look up to shows up and then your life will be miserable , scotts are the neighbor who will lend you anything in his garage and help build your deck without asking and she is the neighbor with the well-behaved kids (at least they are when she is around, when she is not….ayiieee!), scotts are fun and tiring, loyal and seductive you have at least one scottian friend

the world as seen by a member of the Herd (rogers) are the reason we have civilization and they are the reason we have repressive societies. they are the personality type that lives in a world of emotion… not just moods and feelings, but where clarks think things and scotts act out, rogers manipulate emotion, in themselves and in the people around them. Ever encounter someone who makes you feel comfortable talking? ...roger  know anyone at work who is always in the center of things and knows all about everyone?… roger  ever find your husband/wife…boyfriend/girlfriend acting like they had no idea that you had a life outside the relationship? lol roger  there is a saying around here: without rogers humanity would still be out on the savannah with the scotts roaming in packs, feeding on the giant herds of rogers while the clarks dart among the low underbrush in a desperate attempt to stay alive long enough to invent opposable thumbs

These three worldviews are the ‘core principles’ of the Doctrine that you are already practicing.

Back to the Practical Value….and how you don’t need to involve the ‘other person’ and how this Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not for them.

Today. Observe the people in your life. Infer which of the three worldviews they appear to be acting from, test this against the descriptions of each of the three personality types that you will find throughout this blog. Once you know which the other person is, you will know why they are doing the things that they are and because you know this, you will have the choice of how you would respond, how you feel about what they do, how to shape the message if you need to get them to do what you want. In other words, you will have more freedom of choice than they do.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 28, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

hey, random memory* of product as fun to see as eat *yeah, that should be more disturbing than it is

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. This is (imo only) an very healthy exercise in both perception and perspective. It is well known, (to the point of axiomata*), that the emotional tenor of our relationship with the world around us (and the people who make it) can make the world in terms of health and well-being.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) is it us or do these two pine trees look even greener than green? (Full Disclosure: ok, not the screaming green, in this photo that I choose to believe I saw in person

5) comments from Friends of the Doctrine including Mimi and Misky These comments, opinion, insight and suggestions all serve to help us stay relevant when we write our Doctrine posts (pretty much every Monday-Wednesday). Yeah, better don’t go looking for how long ago the word ‘relevant’ was in circulation. lol

6) helpful reminders from Hostinae cai as we approach the last of the current batch of links (to the scheduled TToTs) she was thoughtful enough to sent us an email

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

8) something, something

9) work on the pond (no ‘before’ only after photos; your curator is, after all, a clark) Fortunately we have a significant secondary scottian aspect which meant bringing along our chainsaw to climb on the branches of the storm-fallen tree to remove the threat to the pond, i.e. blocking the channel to allows the pond to fill when the adjacent river is at the right level.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word

music vid

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W Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 25, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

We went searching for a RePrint post. We found one. It looked different. We felt a vacuum-breath of fear*. Mostly ’cause one of our trusted online systems decided to upgrade and improve their security so we had to re-establish our credentials.

The fear?

Two words: scrutiny.

Hey! yeah, last week we did a couple of clarks vs scotts vs rogers experience lists… lets do ‘fundamental, existenial fears’.

clarks fear scrutiny, scotts fear irrelevance and rogers fear shunning (by the Herd)

well that was kind of…brief

remind us Friday to respond to Mimi and Misky’s recent comments.

thats un savoureux petit Doctrine, miam miam

January 21, 2011

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

Lets talk.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a ‘theory of personality’ the same way that your grandmother or mother (or wife or husband) is a chef. What they can do is produce food that you and your family look forward to eating and of course, everyone enjoys and benefits from their efforts both as food and (as) a social occasion. Not only that, your husband or wife or boyfriend or grandmother uses most of the same tools and ingredients and equipment that Le Cordon Bleu chef will use. Both will work with food in a kitchen environment that is essentially the same and (all) produce meals that are good and good for you, the only difference:

your grandmother will never be on television, your mom will never write a book that will be found in bookstores, your wife or your husband will never have a meal named after them (on the menu of a restaurant).

Who is the better cook?

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine.

Do not think that we are apologizing for our grandmothers or our lack of empirical date (supporting this here theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, here). We are not. But just because the techniques and tricks and recipes of your “family chef” have certain limitations, does not preclude us from being determined to try and rise above the confines of the ‘novelty blog’ category with the Wakefield Doctrine. Point in fact, it is the goal of all involved with this blogsite to take what we have learned about human personality and behavior and, with no small amount of chutzpah, put it in front of as many people as possible. Our very immodest intent is quite simply to get people to see the world through the lens of our little Doctrine.

There is no “WHY?” question here. (The only possible answer would be, “Why not?”) To take that approach would have the fault of being un-necessarily modest. Our intent is, with all of the means available to us, presenting/promoting/publicising/pushing the Wakefield Doctrine in order to have some effect on the world, if only 30 or 40 people worth. Maybe more than that, (perhaps 300 or 400) people will read about this thing and find the same usefulness that we do and these people will benefit from having come to this blog and learned about our ‘theory or personality’.
But hey, everyone starts out as someone’s son/husband/brother/grandson/girlfriend/yeah,they used to live right down the street before they turned into a celebrity or an authority or a mover or a shaker (the Hollywood variety not the Pennsylvania type).
Take Martha Stewart (…”please”) she was someones mother at a point in time prior to becoming a valued NYSE listed commodity…might have been your mother, but probably not. She was Alexis’s mother

Be that as it may. Lets take a quick look at our “cookbook” so that our more credential-dependent Readers can continue to enjoy this blog and still get something useful from your visit today.

clarks: quiet but always manage to get noticed, introspective but aggressive, creative and intellectual yet capable of blindingly stupid stubbornness when they believe they have an understanding of the situation;
scotts: free-spirited extroverts who feed on the discomfort of others, natural leaders who inspire confidence and will spring into action regardless of how ill-conceived the action or ill-prepared for the unexpected they might be;
rogers: precise and exact and they would have invented OCD (if it had not already existed), sociable, likable and prone to extreme prejudice, with the right tools they will build the infrastructure of the civilized world just so they will have people to pass judgement on

Thats a pretty basic set of ‘recipes’ or down-home culinary technique, isn’t it?
Don’t you think your grandmom had fun teaching your mother to cook on cold winter evenings? The food at your house? doesn’t it taste as good as the food you could learn to prepare by spending 5 years in a culinary school? No? You think the chef, by virtue of all their formal training is better off?