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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 19, 2026 By 6 Comments

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

the matter of secondary and tertiary aspects, briefly, hopefully succinctly and therefore, for the typical* Wakefield Doctrine Reader, useful

First:

Predominant worldviews, aka personality types:

  • clarks (the Outsider) the person who relates to the world around them as would one who suspects they are different and, human nature being what it is, becomes wary of letting other know of this deficiency.
  • scotts (the Predator) the ‘most natural’ of the three; pronounced prey drive, minimal need for introspection, lives to act with an emphasis on motion and aggression
  • rogers (the Herd Member) the reason we have: culture (don’t judge, it’s a way relative accomplishment), technology because 2 + 2 is four with more certainty even than that which they ascribe to the ideal of the Right Way

Secondary aspects: since one has a predominant worldview, (and only one), that is a manifestation of the individual’s relationship with reality, the ‘other two’ remain, to a varying degree, an influence on a person’s perception of reality. Usually a secondary aspect is noticed in times of duress. If it offers a value that the individual can appreciate, it tends to be cultivated. A secondary or tertiary aspect cannot supplant or replace or otherwise have co-equal effect with the predominant aspect.

know why?

Because! Because this Doctrine system is not an assessment of self-reported inclinations, likes or dislikes. The Wakefield Doctrine is not a schema of observed preferences, tropisms or ‘rather do this than that’ in terms of an individual’s behavior.

The ‘personality type’ in the context of the Doctrine is simply a label identifying the social strategies, systemic behavioral adaptations based on the reality into which an infant finds themselfs at a very early age. In a sense, it is more accurate (but less fun) to say one is a mature, developed native to the reality of Outsiders, Predators and Herd Members. And, as such, act appropriately to the reality they experience on a personal, day-to-day basis.

This is why the likelihood of: “Hey! I got a strong secondary scottian aspect. I’ve seen me in action. I’m gonna practice all day/every day acting on impulse, pursuing prey and living in the here and now!! Then I’ll become a scott. Or, at very least some kind of hybrid.

No. No you won’t.

You will still wake up to a personal reality described (by this Wakefield Doctrine system) as that of: the Outsider/the Predator/the Herd Member.

You (dear Reader) currently have the perfect personality type.

…for the reality in which you grew up and developed and matured.

ya know?

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 17, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

so we’re about at the end of Summer, which can only mean one thing: school shirts.

As with most of this blog, we place less value on the certainty that what we write makes sense to any random Reader and all of it (value) on those who get it.

Unlike the vast majority of popular of general and special interest blogs, we rely on a certain quality of Reader.

Of course, from all reports, the blogosphere is not what it was back in 2009 when we wrote our first post.

It was a glorious time. A time of ideas and acceptance and the rogerian bloggers covered the landscape, as far as the eye could read.

but, we digress

in the earliest of Doctrine posts we spoke of people with a certain quality, call it intellectual adventurism. A self-confidence that encourages experimentation and embraces the odd and unusual.

As with most things Doctrine, (and implicitly one’s efforts to become fluent in the perceptual dialect of the world as experienced by three predominant worldviews (aka clarks/Outsiders, scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members), the more one learns, the more there is to see/experience.

But today the magic word is ‘school shirt’.

not for nothin’ but the Wakefield Doctrine is, when you cut out the fun (like who would want to do that?!?) is simply a metaphor, albeit a behavioral metaphor.

And god know, your Curator do loves them metaphors.

To the shirts (new) and you’ll be free to wander the earth (for today).

So the weather becomes humid. But the morning sky is a deep blue. The search for fun becomes increasingly desperate. Unspoken is the challenge: What Did You Do this Summer?

…and then the school shirt. Smelling of plastic, tissue paper rustling dryly and glinting, the pins. If you are too young, the command arrives, “Try one on. Let’s sit if if fits.”

The smell of industrial starch in the perfectly smooth fabric is part of the plan to distract you from that one last pin. As much as you shake out the shirt, the primary creases remain, the hidden serrated edge waiting for your second-of-the-Summer burn to come into range.

… next stop: grocery bags to be cut up into book covers.

 

 

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 14, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

Damn! Readers they gettin’ this here Doctrine here, big-time. Fluent in the Doctrine much, M?*

From Mimi

As a janitor clark-like person, i deal with messes scotts and rogers make all the time. The scotts’ messes are from simply being who they are, the rogers, it’s from not thinking because of not having a clark-like secondary.

And, really, while it surely does not rise to the level of: (hands clapping a person’s shoulders in a summer tent in a rural field) “Get up (-uh). You can walk(uh). Can I get an Amen!”1 Readers at a certain level will sense the implication in M’s little quote. The mind behind the mess is discernible in the character of the mess.

In the world of a Predator, it’s not “Hey, slow down, I need to find a trash receptacle for my Big Mac box and Coke… ok ok I’ll come back after I catch you.” (throws the litter over her/his shoulder) and continues the chase.

In the land of the Herd Member, “Excellent burger and coke. What’s next on today’s agenda. No time, no time! We’ll just store the empty box somewhere for safe keeping… there’s room on the floor on the passenger’s side for just one more! Look at the abundance of our Life!!” at some point in time there will be something of a ceremonial ‘cleaning up’ which is as much assertion of status in the world (of lunches on the go or discarded packaging in the workshop).

Ear Worm Warning!! That last line triggered the perennial affection of the song ‘Kid Charlemagne’ (one of the finest guitar soloes ever)

1) one of our guilty pleasures when in the car is to listen to a local gospel station. Not everyone on it, but there are a few that, in oratory style, have it. Can’t describe it… very much a case of ‘the medium more than the message’.

In any event, on Saturday night there is one very old-school guy. Sounds older that the usual line up, his sermons are also of a time gone by, but his speaking style! There is the accent on the ends of certain sentences (not every one, just enough to know that it’s deliberate and for emphasis) where he adds an ‘-uh‘ to the last word of a sentence – uh. You can see the prairie and the hear the canvas flapping in the wind, don’cha know,

*in the spirit of loosening up our-owneself: no! not to worry, I am totally including Frank in this compliment, M. (lol)

 

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Tesudae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 11, 2026 By 2 Comments

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

Say you’re out and about today.

It’s summer, (here in Oceania), despite the store displays being torn down and replaced by Pumpkin-infused Halloween merchandise.

You’re out on errands or whatever GenMe calls: getting gas at the Seven-Eleven, stopping at work to pick up your check or driving by the beach to see if your ennui can be banished by the sight of non-old bodies in minimal clothing exhibiting hypo-organized behavior.

You’ve studied your Wakefield Doctrine.

You have a solid grasp of the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews*, at least on the level comparable to going on a trip to Spain during your last year in Spanish Club.

What is the purpose of the Wakefield Doctrine?

It is not:

  • finding something to do that on your trip that will, somehow, make it special… wait, it is kinda that
  • discovering a part of your life, (promise not to stop reading? … gain a new appreciation to a part of your life) damn! busted
  • laugh at the foibles of your fellow lifeforms and, at the peak ha-ha-moment, realize many of things you dislike about yourself aren’t so awful…shit! (maybe we shouldn’t’ve committed to this bullet point thing so hard**)
  • allowing the weight of ‘doing things correctly’ to lighten to a few-ounces-less-than-glum.  boy-oh-boy better hope the word count is enough to quit this ‘What the Wakefield Doctrine is not’ schtick
  • the Answer…. finally!!  a valid point. the study, use and embrace of the perspective afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine is not ‘the Answer’
  • the way to change the things in others close to you… shit, near the end and now we’re on a roll!! The famous saying/advisory to New Readers is: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them. (figure it out). It does, however, offer a chance to avoid one’s own triggers when interacting with others… these triggers being very much a part of maintaining the “I really like them except for when they…”

out

*aka personality types:

  • clarks (Outsiders)
  • scotts (Predators)
  • rogers (Herd Members)

** thanks to the writers of ‘The Good Place’ for the rhetorical device, you need to watch to the very end, though

 

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 10, 2026 By 4 Comments

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

AP Level Wakefield Doctrine today!

oh boy!

ok, before we begin: honor system here today. do not read the RePrint post below. at least not right yet.

Full Disclosure: as the Curator, we will also not read the RePrint below. (Sure, we scanned it sufficiently to decided to copy it. But we didn’t read it-read it. As to why? None of your business. And, yeah, of course, ‘we’ wrote it in the first place. But we’ve been going through an introspective-self-questioning period of late. Mostly, centered on: ‘damn that past iteration Curator wrote posts that were pretty engaging. why can’t we do that?’

the Answer? doesn’t fricken matter. We write posts because that was the way, and good-thing-too-it-was-undisclosed price of the totally serendipitous insight that lead to the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers (aka the Wakefield Doctrine).

The serendipitous insight? To reframe a joke from certain friends: “Wanna hide something from New Readers in a blog? Put it in the ‘About Page’. lol. Here, save ya the click.

…ok, got the self-doubt outa our system (for today).

The ‘AP Level’ Doctrine principle? The personal reality that is the linchpin to the Wakefield Doctrine and the three predominant worldviews is real. At least it’s as real as a Reader might be capable of, i.e. scott come back!!! roger no, don’t try that ‘I can really appreciate what you’re trying to convey.’ don’t even try. clark… lol

While the central tenet remains that the basis for the three personality types is the character of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them and the people who make it up, a closer look at personal reality is worth-our-while.

Our RePrint strives to say that, when, say, a clark becomes aware of the world around them the people (who make it up) are different. Most of them do share a knowledge, an appreciation of a common bond. A (young clark) is not projecting, she/he is discerning the difference. And, for reasons not fully understood, the clark immediately covers-up their insight. An additional behavior is then overlayed on the normal, young human learning to navigate the world, develop social strategies…aka  develop their personality. That is: avoid excessive scrutiny.

(and for a scott and a roger, the same. they do not take it into their heads to pretend the world is full of predator and prey nor do they decide that all is quantifiable and knowable and they must maintain to the best of their capability to maintain a role in the center of the group.)

dig?

 

ok… not gonna clutter this post with a full RePrint. If you need something to read Here is RePrint for today.

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