Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

February 12, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously…

Prompt word:

MARK

“Ian, Ian, Ian, I swear you’d forget your head if it wasn’t sewn on to your shoulders.”

It wasn’t how I could hear my mother’s voice so clearly over the span of a lifetime, it was how adamant I was, at the age of ten, that I’d checked all the possibilities and accounted for everything that mattered.

I laughed out-loud, which didn’t endear me to the people ahead of me at the TSA checkpoint; one of the 21st Century’s iterations of the ‘Mark of Cain’ included laughing inappropriately in an airline terminal.

Ever since waking up next to Leanne, ok, soon after waking up… I had a feeling I was forgetting something terribly important.

On the second try to reach Hazel, I got a message, “Your call cannot be completed as dialed, there is no service in that location, idiot.”

Moving the phone towards my pocket, I heard, “Final Voice Mail” then Hazel’s voice, “Ian, if you see anyone with an odd mark on their hand, it’s a charagma; I’m trying to run down the old myth, might have someone here who can help, will call when you get to Chicago.”

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

February 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously…

Prompt word:

MARK

The Six Sentence Café & Bistro, in the middle of a weekday afternoon, is not that different from any other café or bistro, bar or, for that matter, big city hospital Emergency Room; open whenever the need arose, (for a café or bistro, a bar or trauma care), always ready to provide for the thirsty, hungry, desperate and/or dying who might happen to cross it’s threshold.

“Miz. Grover, what a unexpected pleasure!”

The tall, thin man, wearing mid-grey worsted wool trousers from Dege & Skinner, a blue, button-down shirt courtesy of Turnbull & Asser and an apron from one of Mimi’s nephews (who owned a successful rib joint in NOLA), stood behind the bar that ran down the right-side of the room from just inside the entry vestibule; the lighting hijacked the colors of the liquor bottles lining the shelves behind him, while a solitary Tensor lamp at the cash register supplied a reassuring, if not monochromatic contrast; most men, the majority of women and all the undecided who happened into the Bistro at this moment could not help but be impressed, if not a little intimidated by him.

“Please, call me Hazel.”

The woman, single mother and part-time receptionist-slash-admin for Desiderata Investigations and Conflict Resolution, Ian Devereaux’s detective agency, was dressed less for what circumstances she expected when starting the day and more for how she felt at the time; of those she interacted with in a typical workday which could range from lawyers to college professors, hookers, waitresses and business owners, all would remember her at the end of their day.

“What can I do… Would you happen to…” the spontaneous two-person interlocutory collision left the woman and the man standing next to the remains of their questions; the only marks on the victims: a sharpening of one’s gaze and a hint of a smile on the other as they resumed their interaction without feeling the need to involve the authorities.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

to continue from yesterday’s Post, lets stick with the basics.

Better yet, let’s answer the question on the minds of 2/3s of Readers* ‘Why go to the trouble of doing all that Reading when we can go buy a book on the Oscar Meyers Briggs Random Letter system or (and this guy we actually did love back in grad school days) William Sheldon‘s ‘Constitutional Psychology’?

One reason: 1) the Doctrine is a fun and effective to understand people and such, more importantly, B) applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, we are better able to appreciate the world as the other person is experiencing it.

Which, quite neatly, takes us back to ‘the Everything Rule’. We all experience reality as it manifests relative to our predominant worldview. There’s a rather long metaphor, (maybe a simile, probably not an analogy), about the three friends standing across the street from a popular restaurant in the middle of the noon rush. Won’t go into it here, but obviously the three are a clark, a scott and a roger. (New Readers! extrapolate what is going through the minds of our friends on the basis of their being: an Outsider, a Predator and a Herd Member. Write your questions below)

The thing we say about learning the Doctrine is that we strive to be fluent. That is, like any other ‘foreign’ language, the more we practice it, the better we know it, the smoother the ‘translation’ is… the goal of fluency being the capacity to think in the (foreign) language.

as Hamlet says to Horatio, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy… you wanna know how many things? well, do you? come on!! I know you want to know… just ask me!! Come on.”

What the Bard left out: clarks (Outsider), scotts (Predator) and rogers (Herd Member) each with their own characteristic personal reality

all right, we’ve said too much already.

* 2/3s is far too charitable a number to designate the percentage of those here, (more than twice), relative to predominant worldviews. the accepted percentages of the three ‘personality types’ of the Doctrine in the general population are: 66% rogers, 10% scotts and 23% clarks

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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 2 Comments

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 2 Comments

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!)