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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Six Sentence Café & Bistro Six”

October 28, 2026 By clarkscottroger 19 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:

SURGE

“Lou!”

The tall, thin man moved from the table (and Automaton) in a surge of motion yet, despite his normal emotional restraint, he nevertheless executed a graceful motion en avant from table to shaking hands with Lou Caesare.

Two perturbations to the Proprietor’s trajectory worthy of note: a flash of stiff white cardboard from where the Automaton was left standing and his guest’s female companion; she wore a tailored business suit the way the dancers wore sequins and stilettos, from her brown hair to tastefully expensive jewelry, all were clearly in service of the intelligence that rested languidly in her violet eyes.

“Yeah, Tim, how ya been, we gotta talk,” the owner of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge also dressed with an agenda; from the Hawaiian shirt to the linen suit, (preferred apparel when not anticipating a need to persuade another party to see things as he did), which nicely offset the gold of his watch and the cutting surface of his diamond ring; taking the cigar from his mouth he turned to his companion with the slightest of bows and a smile of affection, “Mea culpa Diane, please, permit me to make the introductions.”

“This is Diane Tierney, Diane, this is…well, all I’ve heard him called is ‘the Manager’, though I did hear someone refer to him as, get this, ‘the tall, thin man’; I mean come on, but no one was smiling at the time, so I figured, different strokes, ya know, so I just call him Tim; as for the miniature mechanical man, I have not one fuckin’ clue, wasn’t here the last time I dropped by.”

Without saying a word, Diane Tierney demonstrated why she was as highly valued as business manager of his club; offering her hand to the tall, thin man, she smiled and, still holding the Manager’s hand, stepped up to the table, crouched in front of the Automaton and, taking a pen and a business card from her purse wrote:

{MY NAME IS DIANE TIERNEY, DO YOU MIND IF WE JOIN YOU?}

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Wednesydea -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 28, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 Comments

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

Tonight we’ll post our Six Sentence Story (or two) and Friday we might try an catch ‘an out-of-town’ bloghop. If for no other reason than to to broaden our horizons, try to penetrate yet another blogosphere segment… you know, just to keep our ‘stalk ‘n hunt’ secondary scottian aspect from becoming bored, (or worse, lethargic and believing that his/her claws are permanently the pieces of chalk they are coming to resemble).

We will, continue to offer, at minimum, three days of ‘This is (the) Wakefield Doctrine’ posts. For New (and Experienced) Readers alike.

From Misky in her Comment on Monday’s post.

This: “Find a zen monk who’s a roger and hold up a picture of sub-adults all enraptured by a social app on their (collective) phones. Ask: is this a part of the monk’s Herd?
The answer: It is now.” …

I find this image somewhat unsettling, and I would avoid those particular sub-adults like plague in a petri dish. What if some part of the ‘herd’ goes against the rules of the collective? Will a rogerian sever that (renegade) portion from the herd, or try to persuade their thinking into uniformity?

ok. leave your reasonable expectations, extrapolations of behavior based on ‘do unto others…’ and remember we’re talking about fun with behavioral metaphors.

Picture a workplace. One focused on technical/scientific/rules-based activity. The business is thriving. To simplify this example for any New Readers, lets say it’s a analytical laboratory, an engineering and design company or…an old-school seminary.

The defining demographic of employees and management? rogers!*

*New Readers: the Everything Rule, if you please. Sure, there are such things as scottian aeronautical engineers and you can find clarklike CPAs in ‘the Big Four’. But remember! This is for fun with with our imaginations

Bonus!!!! (from an old post)… we totally promise(ish) to get back on topic right after:

if we didn’t have rogers you would not want to have to fly from Newark to Biloxi in a plane designed and built by a scott!

jet airliners designed by scotts: very fast with at least 5 or 6 engines (not necessarily required to get off the ground, but make them louder than frickin anything)

a part of the cabin has a basketball net/hockey/or batters box

the stewards would have to wear bathing suits… male or female and they would carry those little air horn things (can of compressed air) to warn the unruly passengers or just in case they get bored

the flight deck would have windows that open, so the pilot could yell at passing jets

0r a clark:

instead of normal seats, there would be couches with pillows and quilts (that would have a disturbing tendency to slide around when the plane has to bank for final approach)

the stewardesses would be scotts and stewards would be rogers

there would be a bathroom-to-passenger ratio of nothing less than 1:2

ok….oh kay! a promise is a promis. To Misky’s question.

If you have ever been in such an environment (or have heard reliable tales of life in a rogerian dominated workplace) you will say…”I accept that there will be a significant level of intrigue and political maneuvering for advancement but…. but!! why do they (the rogers) seem to be able to overlook such behavior? Say, getting bad-mouthed before a performance review. Because (remember!! you’re a roger in the world of the Herd!) you let it go, because there will be a time when you are the one on the delivering end.

This is the most difficult aspect of the personal reality of the Herd Members for clarks to accept. The mutual agreement not to ‘do unto others’ when it’s not (yet) your turn.

Direct answer to Misky’s question: a roger seeks to become the center of the Herd, not the leader. Force/control is exerted by influence radiating out from one’s position in the Herd. There is no direct force.

Thanks! Misky

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 27, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Fortunately for us, and Readers, both new and old, we (your Curator) has had the input of scotts and rogers down through the years of these pages.

It goes without saying that these ‘Friends of the Doctrine’ (the scotts and rogers) have all had significant secondary clarklike aspects.

New Readers: it is said that if you return to this blog more than once (and not under duress) then it’s safe to say you’re one of two kinds of Readers:

clarks
scotts (or) rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspects*

The reason being, it is within the personal reality of the Outsider (clarks) that you find curiosity and pleasure at the idea of new, unusual, interesting, odd and off-the-wall ideas/theories/perspectives.

*Quick recap: we, all of us, have one predominant worldview lasting a lifetime. One. However, the qualities of ‘the other two’ remain accessible …somehow. The net result is that you can find a perfectly normal clark (well, stay with us lol) who at times and in certain situations exhibits an unbridled aggressiveness found only in scotts. Equally, it is possible to find rogers who demonstrate an openness to radical, hell, heretical ideas (granted they keep them in safely locked display cases lol) and finally, we all have one friend who is a scott but his secondary clarklike aspect is sufficient to allow him to contribute to our understanding of Predators.
Important Point: more to clarks: you have scottian friends, (well at least one), and have had a long-standing relationship with a roger. You love this Doctrine thing (well, duh) and you tell them how cool it is. Their response: I don’t get it/well, if you enjoy it by all means have fun/hey, maybe you can play tricks on ’em. Sorry. Lack of secondary clarklike aspect. We understand. No, it’s nothing to do with the idea or with how you are relating it. A scott or a roger with a secondary clark deficiency will never ‘get the Doctrine’. Not because they think it’s stupid or anything. Just a lack of free-range imagination/subversive curiosity/renagade sense of whimsy.

We’re sorry. And no! It’s not how you are explaining it. It’s them, not you.**

Bottom line is that some of the qualities of one’s non-predominant worldview can be available. We (your Curator) is an example of a clark with a significant secondary scottian (‘scoe-shun’) aspect. This is exemplified in the assertion (for clarks) that ‘we abhor being the center of attention but will not tolerate being ignored‘.

So, back to the ‘prompt Comment’ for today.

** oh man! remind us to relate one of the single most beneficial insights derived from the Wakefield Doctrine. Sorry, it’s a clark thing. You might get it if your secondary is strong, tomorrow, we promise

Misky, she be sayin’…

Damn outa time! Will return to the question she poses in her Comment tomorrow. Promise. (It has to do with how would a roger deal with rebellious or unruly members of their Herd. Great topic).

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: self-development, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 26, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

To start us off on the week’s Wakefield Doctrine posts lets hit the more advanced curriculum: (WD. 205 Adv. predominant worldview determination)

a Comment on last Friday’s post from Misky:

I just read an article in the newspaper (yes, I do still read newspapers, daily) that a TikTok person having millions of followers says she always feels alone and lonely. She is busying herself all day TokToking, and then wonders why she’s alone? Where am I going with this? Well, nowhere in truth — except a personal analysis of when is a herd not a herd. (not herb, you stupid spellchecker; herd — herd)

to which we Reply:

…besides the question you post, (as to the possibly ephemeral nature of ‘the Herd’), there is the very real value (for those at your level of understanding of matters Doctrine) of seeing/hearing/taking-in-the-context of utterances as part of one’s assessment of (another’s) likely predominant worldview.

The Wakefield Doctrine has, as most creative/novel constructs/perspectives on how to relate to the world around us has an element of art to complement its science.

The thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is that the set of characteristics associated with each of the three predominant worldviews has a real world consistency that goes beyond the normal guessing. (“Your favorite color is blue and you avoid people who default to the negative/aggressive end of the spectrum.”) This is the science.

The art is our own sense of how things fit together.

so to the question: is this an example of a special-case definition of ‘Herd’ (as in Member of the Herd, aka rogers).

No. That distinction is unnecessary. The Herd, to a roger, is all that they know of the world around them (and the people who make it up). Find a zen monk who’s a roger and hold up a picture of sub-adults all enraptured by a social app on their (collective) phones. Ask: is this a part of the monk’s Herd?

The answer: It is now.

We hope that clarifies the issue.

Bonus Doctrine Insight!! So, we’re sitting around in your library discussing the Wakefield Doctrine. (the new footman of your household has already brought our afternoon tea, all under the watchful of your butler) and in response to your anecdote, we say, “Excellent Doctrine(izing)! She is clearly are roger. The two indices are her claim of ‘millions of followers’ and the somewhat boastful, if not redundant, lamentation of being alone and lonely. All the while, as you so astutely note: busying herself all day TokToking.

AP Doctrine note to the last point: that is a roger spreading her quilt-of-belonging out for all who come into range of her ‘asking for help or aid’. (Hey it beats going to all the trouble of constructing a cottage from delicious candy and bon-bons and such?)

Good question. Good eye.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 15 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful. (TToT) bloghop. Each week, Readers, writers and bloggers visit and contribute to this exercise in the cultivation of the state of gratitude.

Following is a list of Ten people, places and things that have inspired, sparked and/or hit-me-in-the-face-with-a-dead carp creating a moment of gratitude. Not bad, given our starting point/baseline vis-à-vis seeing the world in a healthy, productive way.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Hey! New Hostinae has joined this band of mutants! Reelika Pedak. No! It’s true! Voluntarily and everthang. All kidding aside, we’re very grate…. what?!?! cha…ching! See Grat #7

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Photo at the top of the post: been a quick Autumn… most leaves down. There is surely an old Swamp Yankee muttering about how this Winter will be snowy…way more’n last year.

7) The thing of it is, given how much time we’ve spent in the Grat Space. It’d be a surprise if we hadn’t learned a trick or two in creating lists (of Grats) and such. So, yeah seeing the company of talented writers and bloggers grow here at the bloghop that Lizzi created is so a grat!

8) something, something

9) oh yeah! forgot to chronicle the end of the summer landscaping at Phyllis’ cottage. (Before photos? Never remember those). But here’s your After photation: