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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Foundered by Lizzi Rene in 1887 during the Reign of Leather Apron, the blog had nearly everything; a spirit of sharing, a sense of humor and a dedication to practice the art of remedial attitude adjustment. It lack only one thing: an internet and it’s bastard child, the blogosphere. She persevered and, ultimately, triumphed over time by simply persevering.

Each week we invite all to create a list of those people, places, things and events that have inspired, engendered and stimulated a state of gratitude.

For this week, our list:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Specifically the ongoing (and v cool collaborative) story of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro)

5) Front Meadow Update (yes there is a walkway to the house on the left and a driveway to the right.)

6) Grat by Proxy*

7) Since we recently did a shout-out to the Hosts and Hostinae (as a Grat), what say we do that for participants? Hey! Aptivi! ‘sup? Not a new participant, actually a longstanding TToT’er, Lady Manila. Lillian and, by no means new, wave at Reelika.

8) something, something

9) that ‘something, something‘ in Grat 8? It’s a true thing and a legitimate Grat. It is meant for a certain, (fortunately for the rest of you), limited demographic at this grat bloghop (as well as others). Some people are less facile when it comes to experiencing certain emotions, much less expressing them. So if you’re reading this and thinking “yeah, don’t think I got the grats? Two words: “See all those photos above? Booyah! And your little dog too. Join in this week and the Doctrine will provide one free Grat for your list. Just to get ya started.”

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*not so much a new category or definition of the basic unit of the TToT lists, more like hypograts. obviously a totally optional discrimination for participants. for the record lets define it as ‘We’re grateful that you’re grateful.” In this case, the photo is of Phyllis driving (on an old logging road through the woods) to her cottage.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

This is, usually, the interlocutory post midway between the ‘Understanding and Enjoying the Wakefield Doctrine’ posts of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) post of Saturday. And so it will be today.

…funny thing, a conversation, just a moment ago with Phyllis* strayed into the nature of time. She was reflecting on how long we have lived here, where we live, and threw dates around like a clark throwing compliments in a ‘Can You Pass for a roger?’ contest.**

For our part, as to the decade we moved in? Totally nailed it!!

But that led to an Everything Rule discussion of how Time passes for clarks and rogers.

As she put it: Complete, detailed facts, dates and information because that’s what the box*** is for/requires.

For us, it was simple: we are at home with time, but we don’t bother with luggage or, even, carry on. We’re at home in time. Have an innate sense of it passing. (Ask a clark: “Hey, tell me when 17 minutes have passed.” (no, not to worry, most clarks don’t wear dedicated time pieces.) and there’s a way good chance they will tap you on the should seventeen minutes later.

anyway have a good weekend

*spouse roger with strong secondary clarklike aspect

** nah, didn’t win First Place. Lost out to a roger who succeeded in convincing a clarklike female at the sign-up desk that, even though he was a roger, he really, really, really needed to enter the contest. Everything important depended on it.

*** the perception of a roger of the world, aka reality is that of a box which contains everything. Now, that presupposes the roger in question has a secondary clarklike aspect. If not, then the concept is moot. But, given Phyllis’ contribution to understanding the predominant worldview of the Herd Members…priceless. The most practical aspect of this insight is that rogers are inherently resistant to the genuinely novel. In other words, if they cannot find something on the inventory (of the box) then a) it doesn’t exist and, ever more importantly 2) it can’t be worthwhile

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 5, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is:

a tool that offers a certain alternative perspective on the world around us (as with any tool, there is a right way to use and a whole bunch of other ways to demonstrate one’s skill in it’s use. Who among us has not hammered in a screw or perform nearly good wood-carving with a flathead screwdriver
a toy that offers a respite from the demands of unreasonable people, distractions of unimaginative cultural artifacts and, for those who find ‘people-watching’ endlessly fascinating, it’s a total enhancement
a perspective on the world at large offering like an optometrist’s steampunk-inspired trial lens sets where it is easy to compare one view with another
a perspective on perspective; sadly there are people who believe there is but one real world, reliable world, not-made-up world; they are not likely to be reading along. they are grounded on and in the ground of consensus reality, which while totally necessary to living a life outside and institution, is, well, limited. worse it is intended to keep people in their place… they do not appreciate additional perspectives
simple to use (well, easy to use improperly not easy to use correctly)

well look at that! We’re outta time.

oh yeah! there are three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) somewhere among the thirty-seven hunnert posts. Check it out. They’re fun to read and figure and, bottom line, the Wakefield Doctrine is way simple: the types are based on the character of the relationship a person maintains with the world out there and these are: Outsider (clarks) Predator (scotts) and Herd Members (rogers).

have fun

Tonight is Six Sentence Story Eve. So be sure to stop by Denise’s.

As a matter of fact, seeing how Thursday is Six Sentence Story day, we’ll go ahead and give you the link, seeing how we hid our SSS in the middle of the landing page (actually lower-middle) A Café Six

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 4, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

As falsely promised yesterday… A RePrint post.

an early-morning errand to run. Keeping the option to add a “wth?!? I haven’t read this before(ish)!!!” content when we return.

Nope, you’ll just have to make do with this content.

Wait! No. This Doctrine is not rocket surgery. It is a serendipitous insight into a correlation between personal attributes and the character of the relationship one has always maintained with the world around them and the people who make it. As with any purported correlation between/among aspects of the world at large, one can argue with the points of relationship but it is invalid to alter the set (of relating points) and then declare the product/insight/conclusion as invalid.

Yeah, ya might’ve been better off with the RePrint.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 23, 2021

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

Tuesday.

Surely this is the most inviting(-sounding) Day of the Week.

Not the lump of Silly Putty to the forehead that Monday is.

Wednesday tries, but in attempting to appeal to too wide an audience, fails like a soufflé baked on a roller coaster, (“Here it comes…look at it rise!!!! What!?! oh no!!)

(Thursday … surely, Thursday is the fort built in the back corner of your parent’s clothes closet when you were six; the spirit of Thursday never dies, be it in school, (the school week is over tomorrow, why not drink and party all night?) or work life.

Friday and Saturday? Way beyond the scope of this post.

One might even say, Tuesdays are the most clarklike days of the week. Full of promise, yet containing enough in the way of work, duties and responsibilities to avoid any appearance of being besotted by hope or recklessly caught up in the sense of common effort in our day-to-day world, like the teenager convinced (and pressured and seduced into) stealing the parent’s car or going out will lesser-known friends into a part of the night in which risk becomes an intoxicant and running along the edge of the cliff seems like the only thing to do, recently converted to the dream of living for the moment.

(The critical element of this dream, attractive to adolescents of all ages, is that the dream is not a path along which we run, if we dare, leading us to a place we hope to be ourselves. ‘Ourselves’ is a relationship not a place, or even a state of mind. The product of any effort to improve ourselves begins with appreciating how we relate ourselves to the world around us. Before, even, we examine how we relate (and otherwise interact) with the world around us.)

Whoa! HEav vee!

Hey, you know how, after you’ve eaten all the bananas from the milk lake of Rice Krispies and there’s nothing left but a bunch of milk-logged, formerly crisp-and-airy-rice-things? And, being a near adult, you can’t just dump the mess down the sink, so you dutifully spoon the globs of cereal into your mouth, (resisting the unfortunate visual of white blood cells bumper-car racing through blood vessels to hurl themselves at the infection site), when your spoon hits something on the bottom of the bowl. One last slice of sugar encrusted banana.

Makes it all worthwhile, am I right?

(Just in case it doesn’t, here’s a reprint post)

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

So why is it that, of the three personality types, clarks look upon Tuesday as, perhaps, the best of all days of the week? Simple. The weekend-workweek transition day (Monday) has been survived, the focus on achieved (or not) progress day (Wednesday) has not yet occurred and the deceptively desirable end-of-workweek day (Friday) is still a distant dream.

Tuesday is all about optimism and promise. And clarks, well, clarks are nothing if not the embodiment of promise.* No, in our brief discussion this morning, ‘promise’ is decidedly a noun. And the context is social context-free! It is not about breaking a promise, making a promise, promising to better. It (the promise of a clark) is the potential… for (totally fill in the blank).

If anything, the promise inherent in the worldview of a clark is the event horizon of their existence. whoah! (whoah, indeed!) Damn, as often happens, I’ve stumbled into a topic that, like a quiet talk and a cup of coffee at the kitchen counter, the coming day still held back by the castellation in bleached oak of the cabinets bracketing the sink, the outside wall falls into the yard and the world yaws open, ever hungry for human time.

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Cliff Notes version of my tantalizing allusion: “…the promise inherent in the worldview of a clark is the event horizon of their existence.” clarks are always searching for something. Being of a rational bent (clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel), the sought-after thing manifests as knowledge/information. clarks are the insatiably curious of the three. The ‘something’ clarks seek is the thing that everyone around them appear to know already and, by tragic miscalculation, clarks assume is the knowledge that makes them, (scotts and rogers) real people. They must have been absent that day, when growing up and being taught about life, ya know. In any event, that is the singularity, the conviction that if they acquire more information, they might discover the secret and become a part of.** Like the nearly-all powerful black hole, we cannot see it directly and so are left with the edge of endless appetite, like golem with a question mark impressed upon our foreheads.

* the natural tendency here is to interpret the word ‘promise’ as a verb, which totally changes the spin. That kind of promise is strictly of the domain of the real people, the scotts and the rogers. (“Hey, a promise is a promise, so get some clothes on an we’ll catch some breakfast” “Yeah, but you promised. I heard you promise. Everyone heard you promise. How can you do such a thing?“)

** super-brief Doctrine for New Readers: unlike most of the other personality theories and schema, the Doctrine does not rely on quizzes and surveys, questions about favorite colours or food, likes and dislikes, in order to establish which category a person falls into. This is because, from our viewpoint, our personality ‘types’ are simply the characteristically distinct style of dealing with life, given the world we are experiencing. Ex: I grew up in the reality of the ‘the Outsider’ and I learned and developed the style of interacting that would best advantage me in that context. My tendency to mumble, have poor posture, make creatively eccentric fashion choices, be funny (provided you’re close enough to hear me) and exhibit a sporadic yet wildly original creativity is because that is what is successful when contending with the world as I experience it. For scotts and for rogers, the same applies. Start out as a little baby one in the world of the Predator and I betcha you develop a predilection for quick reflexes, act-before-being-acted-up real fast. It’s about what strategies are appropriate to the character of the world you grow up in, you know, what kind of likes and dislikes, favorite colours or food that increase the odds that you survive and thrive today.

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II ẞ ay -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 28, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Being Tuesday (you got that in the title, right? that’s meant to, well, it actually is an eszett. But that’s not important right now!)

We’ll need to keep this short. And, as all Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine know, the shortest post is a RePrint post.

Hey! Before you get caught up in the RePrint, new ‘insight’ into the three personal realities manifesting as clarks, scotts and rogers.

(New Readers! there is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ here in the Doctrine. Before you start typing: omg I know I’m a (fill in type) but since I really enjoy working the (fill in shift) I must be a new form of personality type. Short Answer: No Long Answer: No, you’re not.

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so here we go (remember like everything else here, this is what a clark, scott and roger as seen in everyday work that involves ‘shifts. they can be said to be: predisposed to/has a natural inclination towards/doesn’t, like, totally hate it

clarks are at home on 3rd shift, scotts prefer 1st and rogers thrive on 2nd shift

there ya go!

‘…of donuts and men (and women)’ -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 18, 2015

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

(so you’re thinking, “well there seems to be an awful lot descriptions and concepts to learn with this Wakefield Doctrine personality theory! Why should I go through all that effort, all those other systems have simple personality types with cool initials and they even have tests and quizzes to tell you what kind of person you are or your boyfriend or your parents are… why do I need to wade through and ‘learn’ this stuff? Which by the way, is not all that well-organised in this blog, you know?”)

…so I walk into the local Dunkin Donuts this afternoon, after spending the day inspecting some listings. As I step through the half-swinging door, I see that there’s no one in line at the counter and the only people in the place, (besides the kids behind the counter, each of them talking out loud to voices coming from their headphones, oddly though, they’re sharing their half of the conversation with the only people in sight, me and a couple at the table in the corner… (“sorry we’re out of glazed donuts would like a chocolate frosted?“). I glanced very briefly to my left as I walk up to the counter, the couple are seated at ‘9 o’clock and 3 o’clock’ at a round table, a young man and a young woman… short dark hair, good posture, facing the window and long blond hair, shorts and talking…respectively. As I stand at the counter, waiting for my coffee and (plain) roll, I decide, ‘what the hell! even though they will spot me, I think I’ll take a better look at these two’ and begin to turn towards them. Before I’m even half the way around, I note that I hear only her voice. (As I continue my pivot), I see that he is sitting back in his chair (with his back towards me) and she is not… but it’s her face that makes the greatest impression on me. And no, it’s not her attractiveness. Hell, she was young and attractive, which is, of course, totally redundant, if, that is, I might indulge in being unintentionally offensive. No, what really caught my attention, was the ‘open-ness’ quality of her face, (and shoulders and head) towards, (but not directly at) the young man across the table from her. She was doing all the talking, but I could hear, since there was no one else talking in the building, (except for the modern day food-priests taking confession at the drive-up window “…a dozen donuts and a 2 frapacinnos, that’ll be 7 dollars and 43 cents, my daughter. god be with you.”), that not only was she posing questions, she would at a variety of times, pause and provide possible answers, and he just sat there.

I thought to myself, I thought, ‘She’s a clark and he’s a roger… too bad, she could do so much better.’

…because of the fun of that! That’s why it’s worth the tiny effort to learn that all people relate themselves to the world around them in one of three characteristic ways:

as would a person who is (an) Outsider. clarks are those who grow up and develop as people who realize that everyone (else) appear to have an understanding of the world that they (the clarks) seem to have missed. clarks try to blend into the background (note I did not say, blend in to the crowd… that’d be impossible) and observe and try to learn how to be a real person

like a Predator (scott) relates, which is pretty simple: live now, if something chases you, chase it back, if you want something, do something about it, if there are problems that seem to have no, or worse, contradictory solutions… chase something! make noise, be noticed, act!!

much as would the Member of a Herd, which is how those with the personality type referred to as rogers do, you start with the knowledge that there is a Right Way and, even if you believe that you are not 100% certain of what that means, you know for a fact that there are a lot of people without even a clue (to what that means), and if you can show them, all the better. Emotion is all, feeling is the highest form of reflection and if you can’t believe that others like you believe it, then it doesn’t count.

That’s all for today.