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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 21, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Full Disclosure: Your regularly scheduled post ‘Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-‘ has been postponed to tomorrow, due to anticipated outrage at the assertion that served as its thesis. (Hint: muy AP Level Doctrine)

Instead, you have us as substitute curator.

In true, ‘a classroom milieu that hasn’t existed for generations’¹ fidelity to our ever-persistent metaphor we will open with:

“So, where were you in your lessons before your regular Curator had to leave?”

We’ll spare the Readers the meme-quality faux question/answer for the rest of the time we have together today.

Instead, let’s refer back to Friday’s post:

The Wakefield Doctrine says, “Hey, you have the perfect personality type.

We were writing a comment to an FB post, (surely written by a clark), something to the effect that the virtual world, aka the blogosphere, was a reality in which the concept of personal responsibility was taken to a new level. We went on to say that this was a social world in which the metaphor is made real, i.e. each of us are a story. We come into the (virtual) world out of nowhere and, in very short order, present (or at very least, introduce) our backstory. In the ‘real’ world, with it’s ‘Sorry, I saw you at the store and that was not an Aston Martin you parked to run in for some milk and bread’ standard of proof of backstory, ‘inventiveness’ of an individual is a bit more constrained, no?

ed. our own foray into the virtual world, immediately following the creation of this blog, was on Facebook. It helps for newer, less-old Readers (yeah, we might be wrong, but we’re looking at you Reelika and cai)² to remember how more rhetorical the medium was back then. Near everone interacted by the written word. Be that as it may. the lettres de mássage for this cool, new land was what we typed.

In any event, we (your Curator) were on a mission. To bring to the Wakefield Doctrine to as many as possible.

Of course, one of the first things we became aware of was that the cool kids really wrote good. Growing up** we never had much interest in the grammar and the other topics contained in fifth period English class don’cha know. But…but! mission, right? We stayed and we wrote wherever our Olivetti key* would afford us access.

It was a grand time.

And the first demonstration, proof of concept of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-improving oneself.⁵

That’ll do for today.

ok, one more basic principle: the Everything Rule. ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another’. For our purposes, that means that there is no: ‘thats a thing only a scott would do‘ or ‘only a roger would be able to do that job‘ (The practical application of this Rule is: No, you are not some new, never-seen-before hybrid clark-roger et. al. One predominant worldview per person/per life.)

1) or, seriously, ever

2) sorry….everyone else lol

5) lol sure. the demonstration is perceptible only to clarks (or scotts/rogers with a high-level secondary clarklike aspect). We didn’t care about how more skillful others were with their writing. Quite unlike our predominant worldview would otherwise react. That said, and in Full Disclosure, we did find ourselfs, adding neologism to our tool pad. lol you know! ‘Hey, excellent wordage, yo.’ Even Fuller Disclosure: especially when interacting with a certain type of denizen (cough <roger> cough) lol

* too archaic a reference well, it’s not like they ever made computer keyboards, ya know?

** ok, ok! ‘getting older’ lol

from an excellent(ish) movie, ‘Spontaneous’

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Threwsday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “phew! Tuesday! the mildest day of the week!’

September 15, 2026 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

You know, it’s not as easy as it looks to write these Doctrine posts!

Take today’s title’s assertion “something…something-something…mildest day of the week”

As Curator, we smile simply because, for us, that is true. Of the days of the week, Tuesday is the best.

But then we think (bar rum bump! lol), “Yeah, but what does the word ‘mild’ do for those living in the personal reality of the Predator or the Herd Member?

…nothin’ good. (at least for an Outsider)

but …but! We are fortunate in having Readers such as Mimi and Frank and Misty (and Cynthia and Denise)

They kinda, with their Comments, pretty much write Doctrine posts they-own-selfs.

Here is Mimi Commenting on yesterday’s post of the benefit (and challenge) of translating between personal realities (of clarks, scotts and rogers):

It sounds like the guy who tried to write a translation dictionary once upon a time for people from Tibet to teach them English. From what I read, he had a Tibetan to French dictionary, so translated everything into French, then took a French/English dictionary and translated it again. It didn’t work too well.

To which we Reply’d

no. no it would not (have) lol

now…now!!! take the framework of what you describe: (“We call that a car”) (‘Well, we call it a ‘voiture.”) (“You two must be on drugs! that’s obviously a རླངས་འཁོར།”)

All of which despite disagreement is nevertheless reasonable as the human brain/mind assigns symbols, vocal and otherwise to the world and it’s objects
but now, replace each context with:

an intellectual concept & a physical action & emotional expression

can I get an aiiyyeee

Can I get one, indeed!

Mr. Starr… play us out if you will

Full Disclosure: Our cited Reply has been edited from the original.

jeez, your Curator is such a clark!

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

Fluency and Proficiency.

looked it up.

(for our purposes: tomato tomahto)

The single most valuable ‘product’ of the Wakefield Doctrine lies in being able to translate the language of one, (of the three predominant worldviews), into another.

New Readers: a part of the fun of the alternative perspective that is the Wakefield Doctrine, the proposition that each of the three ‘personality types’ exist in a different, distinct, (though subtly related), personal reality.*

But wait! There’s more! Of the three predominant worldviews:

clarks (the Outsider) life in a puzzle that is missing one piece, but for reasons too unpleasant to explain (to others). thinking and examin’ the world is, by-and-large an intellectual exercise. the world is one of thought
scotts (the Predator) life is to be lived, there’s no need (or time) to consider other explanations for the purely natural predator-prey procession, the world is a physical expression of the essential life experience, i.e. to act is to live
rogers (the Herd Member) life is a rainbow of emotion disguised as people. the world is a feeling and the only way to connect is to send out a ripple (or a splash or a fuckin’ cannonball off the diving board) of emotion, which is as complex as it needs to be. think: throw a dictionary (which lacks any binding) at one and other and they will gather the pages, take your meaning and throwing it back. mostly

A fundamental difference, but with an unseen ‘Universal Translator’ running in the background of our everyday lifes.

Stay with us. Almost there.

When a roger says something to a clark it, (the message), is grounded in the language of the Herd, i.e. emotional. It gets transliterated, translated, transmorgified….whatever (lol) and the clark hears it (this message) in words of the intellect.

Big finish:

what the clark hears…no, better we say, How the clark translates what they hear the roger saying is not always what the roger meant. Or, at least, not how the roger meant for the clark to feel.

Stopping now. You’ve got some homework, yo.

Takeway: the more we can put ourselfs in the mind, (predominant worldview), of the other person, the better we can understand the ‘why’ of their statement and the less likely we are to say, ‘What the fuck?’

*ok, calm down. Nothing weird. At least nothing extravagantly weird. The idea of a personal reality is simply a fun designation for the thin, thin, in-some-not-so-thin layer of experience between a person and the world they are in, say on a Monday, like today. caveat! If you’re feeling suspicious or wondering when the punchline is coming… this thing of ours might not be quite appropriate for you. Perhaps you might try the Oscar-Meyers, Briggs and Stratton personality system or, even GenZ’s: ‘Talking is for Losers…just tell what we should know, provided you’re hot…Guide to Life’

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

So…

Nope… not gonna take the easy(er) path of a RePrint post today. Though god knows there are few more Doctrine-instructional days of the week to incite a Doctrine post than Tuesday!

ok, lets keep it basic.

New Readers: (no better way to stay ‘on track’* to write a Wakefield Doctrine post than to address them/write to that ‘market’). Hey! This blog is about the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We admittedly indulge in the harmless conceit of calling it a personality theory. Mostly because of the word ‘personality’. Which almost all of us are conditioned to think: ‘personality types!’ ha! (the exclamatory ‘ha’ is there just to set us up for one of the fun descriptions of generic personality types, of the kind formally found in magazines and now(ish) online.

The set-up is: “Oh honey! Come here! I’ve just read an article about personality types. It has you down to a ‘T’. You’re a (fill in the blank with random capital letters or maybe some animal species or, if of high academic ambitions, verbs turned into nouns, ‘Driver’ or whatever (don’t forget to capitalize!). In anyevent, our punchline is: “Now Mrs. Gullible has a brand new mirror-shaped club!”

ha ha

Have we mentioned that clarks tend not to tell jokes effectively? (Now, scotts! damn! that’s a whole post in and of itself. Warning!! Be careful what you ask for. Not entirely complimentary to our Predatory friends. At least for the most sensitive scotts. (yeah, we know! as if).

Back to our thesis: New Readers: if you visit consistently you will see a certain pattern here. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday are referred to a ‘Doctrine posts’. The Thursday post is a Six Sentence Story (a prompt based fiction bloghop). Saturday and Sunday, the TToT post.

that should do for today. (found my music vid in that last sentence, albeit a day late.)

*ok! congratulations New Reader!! You’ve demonstrated several qualities considered necessary to the full-enjoyment of the rhetorical, why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk adventure that is the Wakefield Doctrine! No, we know you don’t need that explained, but for the benefit of the roger or scott looking over your shoulder we’ll say this: “The more enduring and consistent quality characterizing those who find the Wakefield Doctrine fun/interesting/useful, are flexiblity of intelligence and a ravenous curiosity.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

While today is Monday, here in Oceania, it is a holiday. It is called, not without un-intended irony, ‘Labor Day’.

In that spirit, we will eschew any sense of (labor) and paste a random RePrint*.

* spin-scroll through the list of all posts while saying, ‘There’s a light…”

Wait! Before we spin ‘n print! Next week’s TToT will be special. It’ s an Open Audition (for Hosts/Hostinae). More later this week. Mark your calendars!

Monday Post -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘what?! did I read that correctly?!!!* whats going on here?’

October 24, 2016

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

Quick, before it fades from my mind, ‘within yesterday’s memory are all the lessons I need to make today the kind of day that I would hope it might be.’

whew! damn, that was close!

No, serially! I was (deliberately) veering from the path I found myself on this morning and the forces of sameness were totally marshaling to get me back on track. ‘back on track’ aka in the same old rut. (Funny how the truisms of life seem to be dual purpose, isn’t it?)

Anyway, as Ellias McDaniels, (no fair looking the name up! If I’m going to all the effort and social risk of getting obscure, then the least you can do is allow me the pleasure of your response that you know the reference.*), would say…

So, why the Monday Post? Two reasons:

I’m trying to side-step my internal critic (that part of me who knows the true measure of my abilities and is kind enough to not let me write anything thats not up to the standards that I should be living up to)

I’m in self-improve-by-virtue-of-better-organizing-my-time mode. (Tell me that thats not the single most aggravating aspect of your day!) Well, tell me that, if you’re a clark. Speaking of which, how long has it been since I’ve written a ‘hey! this is the Wakefield Doctrine! you wanna hear about the best personality theory you’re ever going to hear about?’

thanks! whoever that was in the back of the room (metaphorically speaking) and speaking of back of the class… can anyone out there tell me the personality type who gravitates to the back of the class, the back of the lecture hall, the back of the crowd at the annual awards ceremony and the front of the car? I’ll give you some time. Hell! I’ll give you the rest of this morning to answer.

So, the Wakefield Doctrine is an approach to personality types that will allow you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. With the Doctrine, you will no longer have ask the world, ‘how could I fall for that again! I really thought I knew them better than that!!’
With the Wakefield Doctrine as (an) additional perspective on life, (and that’s what it and every other ‘theory’ of ‘personality’ actually is, and I’m totally including the Oscar Myers Briggs&Stratton, the ‘what color is my vegetable’ (current fav on ‘the Facebook’) and Jung’s ‘What!?! No, I’m not saying that Fred and Wilma were real, I’m saying that archetypes…never mind!’) personality theories. With the Wakefield Doctrine you will be in position to see the other people in your life in a context that allows their behavior to make sense. And that’s all any of us want, isn’t it?**

Well, running out of time this morning, so the basics:

clarks the Outsider: the simplest way to describe this personality type (and to test yourself for clarklike tendencies) is that this person wakes up each and every morning thinking, ‘ok the world and everyone is still out there, I know I can figure it out today’

scotts the Predator: the person most like to be voted: jeez! I’d love to be able to be like that,…. scotts will bound out of bed, ready for whatever is waiting, and they know there’s something waiting outside the bedroom door/at the office/among the kids at the daycare and that annoying woman who is so judgmental

rogers the Herd Member: if you got a little annoyed at the (numbered) bullet points because I clearly said ‘two’ and you have a certain confidence that everything that must be achieved in your day will be, if for no other reason than the fact that your list has the important things at the top; rogers don’t wake up thinking, they wake up planning, and they most assuredly do not bound out of bed, one could sprain an ankle being so reckless, and besides, there’s no rush, the schedule is simple and well established.

…gotta run (or walk (or stroll)) out into the world.

*totally a clark thing, if you respond, ‘yeah, clark, who do you love’ I will feel a surge of pride in my getting to hang out with people who are of a place that allows them to know a semi-obscure musical reference (and that’s that only hint you get!)

** yeah, that is a trick question