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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 7, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 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.

The TToT is one of the more enjoyable forms of spiritual exercise. Unlike other forms of exercise purportedly good for a person. This thing of Lizzi‘s does not require one to sweat excessively (unless, that is, you’re into that… which we are, but strictly seasonal-appropriate, outdoor, stick-that-shirt-to-yer-back-yo) and critically does not mandate excessive conformity.

Being of good intent is the only requirement. How simple is this thing of ours? Consider the people, places and things that have recently inspired you to think/say, ‘I’m thankful for that’.

Pretty simple, isn’t it? Ready to pick up the pen? (ok, rest your fingers on the keyboard). ProTip: Neatness, as a mandatory quality of TToT lists is not overly valued (phew!) That said, stylistically, there are writers here who celebrate in the orderly, raising orderliness to the admirable level… both in presentation and organization. (Thinking of Kristi and Misky). Others, well others’ present a style more akin to a lean-against-your-car-on-a-late-summer-day kinda of conversations, like you see over at Mimi‘s and Dyanne‘s. The more conventional narratives, as exemplified by Lisa and Denise are totally 2nd-year-owned-corduroy-pants (in Autumn)… and, in appreciation of ‘new blood being lifeblood’, we gots Kjersti and Cai and Cat …and, Carin!

…and, then, of course, there’s the Wakefield Doctrine’s remedial spirituality (which is heavy into music and photation in no easily discerned logic)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘Nine Lives‘. by Sally

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) photos on the way to inspections (see Grat #7*)

7) Mountain of Stuff

8) something, something

9) DST yo. It’s totally put-the-Winter-coats-away (well, in the hall closet, no sense getting over-confident, ya know?)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*ok. we’ll stip to this maneuver being somewhat questionable

music vids

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 5, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Sure, the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. At it’s very most casual, a lens to don when in people-watching mode.

It is also a way-efficacious tool for self-improving ourselfs.

But what about, as you* look upon the borrowed image at the top of the post, and typety-say,

“Well, I try every day to remember how we, each of us, grow and mature in a context of three characteristic relationships with the world around us. I totally get how the reality of my world is but one of three. And, how, in order to survive and thrive as a very youngster, I learned and practiced certain styles of social strategies. Sure, I do believe I have the perfect personality type for living in a world as I experience it. I even remember not to forget that although my reality is one of a possible three, I am endowed with the geophysical right** to look at the world as do the other two predominant worldviews and therefore am halfway to relating to the world in a new (to me) manner and be all kinds of the person I hope to be. But then, as soon as I get out there***, into the world, I forget! And totally act in the ways that makes me read the back pages of magazine and their ‘Personality Quiz the will change your Life in Twenty-three minutes (if, that is, I’m an old person) or… click on the ‘Scientists Uncover the Secret to Unlocking your Potential in twenty-three steps…CLICK HERE. What the hell good is this Doctrine? ”

Plenty o’good.

As you read these pages and, even better the Comments, you will see others of your kind¹. Identify with them. Don’t worry about any other detail. The Wakefield Doctrine is, as you should know by now: Gender, Age, Culture, whatever-other-conditions of day-to-day life Neutral.

* clarks, ’cause… well, you know why

*** aren’t words and language fun? we can see you smile, even if you don’t. and that…that is your strength. You know about knowing. The one area of your existence that is immune to self-doubt is the ‘knowing stuff’ thing. So, while knowing stuff does not automatically confer changing things (about yerself)… it’s like puttin’ on the slacks and perfect shirt to the killer suit you’ve been determined, since you can remember, to find and wear in the everyday world.

*** we believe we’ve already indicated who the most likely of the three ‘personality types’ of this here Doctrine here is likely to still be reading along.

1) ok, ok, we’ve been kinda preaching to the elect/the choir, but for New Readers here today, dig this: the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine are:

clarks (the Outsider) quiet, curious and prefer to stay out of the limelight… ha ha! fooled ya! you are forgiven for thinking ‘Oh, I know this one! Introverts.’ sorry, wrong. this close but not quite. clarks live in their heads, so excessive vocals are limited. they are searching, always searching for the one thing they believe everyone else has (ProTip: ‘…what everyone else knows‘ and therefore are always on the lookout) and, finally… that thing about ‘being an Outsider? can’t be sure why that should be, so avoidance of scrutiny is a Prime Directive
scotts (the Predator) not-quiet, curious in a prey-drive sorta way and limelight?? yum! (lol) fun people, never not alert to their surroundings, (the eyes of a scott are remarkable… study your Doctrine posts and, before you know it, you’ll be able to spot a scott by photo alone. serially! look at the photo in the upper right of the Doctrine homepage. those three well-dressed lifeforms? one’s a scott. (ProTip: fun people…we said that, right? err… no sudden moves, and no running away, once engaged. aiight?)
rogers (Herd Members) not boisterous but certainly not quiet, unless they’re confiding in you (ProTip: what they will be conveying is more than likely about someone else) not the center of the the limelight as much as the focal point of whoever has gathered but seem to lack a sense of purpose… they are the social ones (as in ‘social contract’) (shh… we’ve said too much already!)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 3, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

RePrint today as we have an encounter with a dentist this morning.

New Readers? There is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ here at the Doctrine. Learn it. Remember it. Enhance your language skills with it. Not withstanding this fundamental rule, each profession, job, skill-for-money, incarceration. following and vocation is best manifested when the person is one of the three, i.e. clarks (Outsiders), scotts (Predators) or rogers (Herd Members).

Dentists? rogers. hands down.

Why? Consider: a medical specialty that demands precision, involves mechanical contrivances and, more often than not the daily practice of which (in any good-sized practice) multiple (if not sequential) arenas of work. The typical modern dental office has multiple operatories and any number of hygienists (every bit deacons and altar boy/girls in pale service to the reigning dentist). The dentist, in a display of mastery of schedule and circumstantial focus, will spend the day ministering the seekers of hard health… flitting between stations to bless the supplicants: “You’re doing a great job with the flossing. Keep up the. good work. See you in six months”,comforting the injured, “OK, looks like a part of the crown is gone. Not to worry, we’ll fix you right up.” and sometimes simply being there, “Good to see you again. Teeth look great”.

There can be clarklike dentists. Sure, in a pinch. And there can be scottian dentists. (The old cartoon strings-on-door-knobs? yeah that)

But you get the idea.

Tooth-ache? Find a rogerian dentist Legal problems? a scottian defense attorney. Someone to tell your no-one-must-ever-know, darkest secret? you guessed it! (lol we won’t say explicitly. we trust you know this one. shhh)

damn! you’re right, we did promise a RePrint

there is a way to use this, (the) Wakefield Doctrine that is actually quite practical!

March 18, 2014

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

You know what’s a real skill to have? The ability to teach! I’m thinking of the kind of teacher who not only can impart knowledge to the student the very first time, (doing whatever the hell it is that Teachers do), but is able to help the pupil or learnee, to learn more about a thing than they already know. I suspect this is a gift that music teachers, early elementary and graduate school teachers share.

Note: the Rule of ‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘ says that all three personality types can be and, are skilled and effective Teachers. There is no exclusive domain for skills, professions, avocations or talent among the three worldviews. It is simply that how the art/science of ‘teaching’ is manifested in distinctly different ways. For a clark, teaching is one thing, for a scott it is something else and for rogers …completely different, from their perspective. (Warning: new(er) aspect of the Doctrine follows). And since we have just created a thought picture in your minds in the shape of a ‘guidance counselor in high school’, lets expand on this and suggest that and you (the Guidance Counselor) have been assigned the task of recommending the best career choice in the field of education for the 6 students you have been assigned, you might do as follows:

clark (female): elementary grades (reasoning: the class is comprised of people that a clark is able to relate to, and the class does not get defensive with, like they tend to with adults)

clark (male): college level teaching (reasoning: most of the bullying, on the part of the students is in the arena of the intellect and the clark will not have a problem …unlike the earlier grades)

scott (female): pretty much any grade when one of the primary goals is to ‘kid wrangle‘, when the learning is more teaching ‘fundamental social rules of behavior’, picture a cross between Cesar Millan and Famke Janssen)

scott (male): shop, gym (probably not elementary grades, “so honey what did you learn in school today? oh! mommy the new Teacher knows so much…. pull my finger!”)

roger (female): home ec, social studies, history (“I would like to submit to the Board my recommendation for a new Course: “Getting Along without Standing Out 101” and “Cooking Meals that look perfect”)

roger (male): social studies, history, home ec ( ‘hey kids I really talk your language and I will, in fact, pass along things I learn in our private conversations to other students I am trying to impress. It’s never too soon to learn about the real world!”)

We can now clearly see how, the art of teaching represents something different to each of the three (yes, three),while there are undeniable differences in the culturally permitted behavior assigned to each of the two genders, the Wakefield Doctrine is, in fact, gender neutral. The person who grows up in the reality of the Outsider (the clark) finds the students they can best relate to, the Teacher-to-be who is, by personal-social-spritual development, a Predator (scotts) knows that antelopes are much lower mantainance (as feedstock) than, say, a herd of wildebeests and the Herd Member (rogers) simply sees the herd and notes the predators and remembers the blue monkeys (for future use).

So, class are there any Questions??

….and No! I will not pull my own finger!

* do they still have guidance counselors? I mean the male roger (‘here take this aptitude test, ok clark the scores are back the career you are best suited for is ‘file clerk‘**) or clarklike female (“so what do you like to do, what do you dream of doing“) or scott (“c’mere let me tell ya a thing or two about jobs“)

** true story

hey, we did a fellow Sixarian (Violet) a solid by offering an anodynistic music vid to offset the earworm from our Six Sentence Story. ‘course, now we have it in our heads. From the Department of Company and Misery, here ya go.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, as an image-prompt bloghop it has but one rule: stories are not to exceed 250 words in length.

“Oh, man!”

“Come on!”

The Writer shifted in his chair as he tee’d up the image-prompt from his third favorite bloghop.

Winter’s relatives, ice and snow, sat listlessly outside the window of his office. The Writer glanced at the smudged and streaked document, its title broken into near-illegibility by the seasonal process of crumple-in-rejection and smoothing-of-resignation. In a fit of irony, all his mind’s eye could discern was ‘Do (Not) Re(s)us(citat)e‘

The man sighed. Absentmindedly, he spun the faux-bronze coin on his desk.

The second-to-first optical illusion caught his aye, as the old appetite began its slow, internal massage. Lacking the rough, ‘let’s get through the foreplay’ of a young author, the overtures of his addiction felt relaxing. The slow familiarity of the urge, far more dangerous to a mature tale-spinner. As if by subversive intent, its centrifugal spin transformed the disc into a globe, the words embossed on each side, obscured, neutered.

Looking back at the photo image on the screen broke the hypnotic lure of the spinning coin and, in the way of countless unanticipated plot-twists that beckoned him down the endless path, he saw only the wet-dark threshold of the gate. The spell was broken.

Pushing away from his computer, he left the room, started his car and headed to the only safe place he knew.

“I’m a Writer. For me one Garden of Eden metaphor is too many and a thousand are not enough.”

“Hi, Writer!”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 25, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Struggling to get started this morning. Quick search through archives…nah.

Recognized the twinge of guilt at using old content rather than typing new. Guilt is the preferred perfume/’after-shave’ of the Outsider, in no small part because we think it’s legitimate use is to divert attention from our-true-selfs and to abracadabra the impression everyone else has of us.

Funny thing, when we tend to wander about, writingistically-speaking, you know, like when you’re stumped on a multi-choice test question and, seeking reassurance in a fact/information of rather admittedly impeachable pedigree-opiniom, resort to counting how many times you’ve selected ‘D’ (None of the Above).

That said, the thing about clarks is, the above test strategy notwithstanding, we’re kinda immune to test anxiety.

Which ties in with Mimi’s Comment on yesterday’s post:

“Simple if not always easy.”

spoken like a: clark/scott/roger

lol

no! wait… just remembered how much we enjoyed being provocative in the early days of this blog and…

‘a scott alone in a room, isn’t’ (and) ‘clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid and rogers are dumb’ and, about applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to your own life, ‘It’s fun and you can’t get it wrong.’

so, in the spirit of ‘hey, it’s not so much what you do or say, it’s how you relate yourself to the world around us and the people wbo make it up’, lets add a new(ish) one:

“clarks make the hard things easy and the easy things hard’