TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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 bloghop (TToT)

Each week the word goes out that there is a standing invitation to bloggers and other writerly-inclined people to link their list of the 10 (+-) people, places, things and/events that inspired the feeling of gratitude in them. There are no limits or requirements in terms of time or space (of the cited Grats) just the spirit of good intent. Go!!! Bulldogs!!

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Doctrine as a topic of conversation last night. Attended a birthday party for a friend. Among the guests, work-friends of hers I didn’t know. At one point, the guest-of-honor said to the group, “I’ve tried to explain the Wakefield Doctrine to the people at work. not sure if I done it right.” At this point the group goes silent, kinda looking at me. Then someone (from the work friends) said, “You explained it fine. I just don’t see which I am,” and turned her attention on me. (Spoiler Alert: I could see she was a roger). So I let the silence grow and said, “That’s all right. I do.” and said nothing more. (lol)

6) technology (subset: video clips to insert that say better what we’re thinking than is possible given our limited abilites)

7) Other Doctrine-related insights from last night’s social occasion. It wasn’t until this morning. when we were talking about the evening, that I realized there were only two scotts in attendance. And, looking back I realized they sat as far from each other as possible. Damn! How cool is this personality theory of ours. [scotts upon meeting another scott will challenge each other for the purposes of establishing ranking and then divide up the territory (and resident prey lol). Alpha gets first choice, of course.

8) something, something

9) vicarious gratation* MIa with her head in the snow. of course!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word,

vids

(forgive us for lacking the skill to effectively write an intro to this music that follows. We still have the endlessness of the current winter in mind when we thought, ‘the Vienna Young Girl’s Chamber Music Ensemble’ or something. hey it was funny in our heads.)

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…a short, quick Doctrine post, ’cause of a Reader Comment, don’cha know”

February 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Sometimes New Readers, they be sayin’ ‘Hey, I believe this Doctrine can be fun and useful. And I get that you say ‘Do your Reading’. But there’s like thirty-five hundred of the fricken’ things. How ’bout you give a Reader a break? Like a Clift Notes thing.”

We hear you.

Examples to see the Doctrine (and it’s three personality types: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) are all around you,

The key is to indulge your imagination.

Yesterday, Commenting on this post, Friend of the Doctrine Misky say:

ps: TSA — I am always impressed by their ability to wear self-possessed importance. Goes to show what a uniform does to a person.

Being a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect allow us to preface our remarks on how her Comment is nothing less than a total open book exam on the Doctrine:

“Hey, this personality theory, it’s not for ever one. Not only do you need to enjoy applying your imagination to the everyday world, you need to have the confidence to, as a scott might, ‘just run with it.’ If you don’t get it, we can say with confidence that it’s only because you’re suffering from hypo-clarklike aspect.’

That’s all we care to say.

To today’s topic: Read: ‘TSA‘ (we’ve all been through security check points at airports…or have seen them in a movie or on TV) then… ‘self-possessed importance‘ (now here our correcpondent is being….somewhat charitable). Finally the clincher: ‘Uniform‘.

We are presented with an archtypical illustration of a less admirable manifestation of the rogerian predominant worldview.

Grade your own exams.

Ask question.

(Like we used to say in early Doctrine posts, back in the beginning when our scottian aspect might have shown more clearly, you know, before the ameliorating effects of associating with the likes of Mimi and Cynthia, we’d be sayin’ ‘There are not stupid question, just your questions.”)

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “of habits and repetition: the old is such a sucker for playing dress-up as the new“

February 10, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

~~Regular Readers of this blog are most likely raising eyebrows (surprise-rise of twin hairy suns on the coffee cup horizon) and whispering, ‘Ruh roe’.~~

~~But serially, the work of self-improving ourselfs can be frustrating.~~

~~The catnip of ‘Self-Improvement’ is surely most.~~

Hold on! New topic! (Throw those syllabi down on the ground!!)

‘the Everything Rule’

The Everything Rule states: everyone does everything, at one time or another.

While it’s most prominent value, vis á vis the Wakefield Doctrine, is to remind New Readers that there is only one predominant worldview (‘personality type’) per… err adherent. You don’t get to be a unique, Doctrine-challenging, special class of clark/scott/roger for one reason: a) that’s not how the system is laid out and 2) thanks for identifying yourself as a roger! (lol)

The thing of it is, this position, (of one predominant worldview), illuminates the core principle of our little ‘personality theory’. Our relationship to the world around us creates the personal reality we exist in. And …and! at the heart of the Everything Rule is the notion that we, (each of the three personality types), manifest the common reality according to (this) relationship.

Example: no!! the heck with the time-worn ‘if being a cop is most suited to a scott, what are clarklike and rogerian policemen like?

Instead let’s paraphrase a mid-20th C proverb (Maslow’s Law of the Instrument):

When you’re an Outsider (clark)/Predator (scott)/Herd Member (roger) everything in the world is: a threat of scrutiny/prey or larger predator/the Herd (except for outsiders and predators).

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

back to ‘work’

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It, (the Doctrine, not the people, hell, not the world, for that matter), proposes that, in service to the ambition to categorize personality, the relationship a person has with the world (around them) is the key to an insight that none of the others can offer.

In the Wakefield Doctrine we have three predominant worldviews, aka personality types. They are:

clarks (the Outsider)
scotts (the Predator)
rogers (the Herd Member)

In more mainstream schema, there is a list of characteristic...characteristics (lol), or, if one is in a more formal frame of mind: drives to, tropisms towards or a bunch of letters from the alphabet.

Whatever.

Here’s the thing: imagine you find your young, (very young) self to be what you can only describe to yourself as being an Outsider. Those around you, (most likely immediate family, but maybe institutional personal, social workers, nuns or wolves), seem to know what’s going on. Wait. Hold on to that assumption.

It’s not that they know whats going on in a realtime, literal sense. No, it’s more that they appear to know each other. At very least, (to keep this Monday post under 1202 words), they (these others) share a common belonging. Worse, they give all indications of sharing a collective knowledge of procedure, in the sense of social order. They know they belong. (Major Hint right there).

What do you do?

That is the underlying rationale of the Wakefield Doctrine. What you do in the above scenario is, of course, learn, (as quickly as possible), what they’ve been taught that you’ve somehow missed (or… advanced concept here ‘you weren’t taught’) i.e. how to get along, fit in and/or simply survive long enough to figure out how the game is played.

New Readers! This has been an example using one of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. Comparable scenaria can be constructed for the other two.

Fine. Monday assignment completo

oh… oh (yeah, old Readers? you can do an Arnold Horshack in your head if you choose)

The Doctrine says a couple of other things.

You form one predominant worldview as your ‘personality type’. The other two remain as potential potentials (lol) But you do not get to be a ‘a combination of…’

Also? The following: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’ the Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral’ and finally (ish) ‘there is no good or bad predominant worldview’ (but there is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ so do your Reading!)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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. Each week the invitation is extended to bloggers and other writers to create and link a list of the ten things that push to the Free Associate line when the word ‘Gratitude’ is announced. Limited only by one’s imagination, it is a good thing to do with words and such.

So, come on down!

For the Doctrine, our TToT list (down through the Summers):

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the days are getting longer (while that might not shovel the snow, it do make it less oppressive)

6) lets try this: a vid clip from 2013 which we’re grateful we uploaded the following video proving there is a time when the temperature rises above 32°