the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “a Six Sentence Café & Bistro Six …cont’d”

June 25, 2026 By clarkscottroger 3 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. in our tale…

Prompt word:

CHARGE

“For Barrie’s sake, not another Creature from god’s nose where?”

The tall, thin man turned from the dumbwaiter, drawn by the sight of a diminutive female figure kaleidoscoping shards of light off a shelf holding a collection of steampunk clockworks, two cellphone chargers and, for some reason, a time-worn Bible even as la Raconteuse glowed with delight; a smile lead the charge on the Manager’s frown but was interrupted by the small automaton holding a card:

[But the Door…someone is still knocking! ]
The dumbwaiter, with what could only be described as child-like impatience, raised one foot, put it down abruptly then the other; the tall, thin man turned to la Raconteuse, his words inoculated by a smile, “I take from your expression I don’t have to go looking for a can of RAID?”

Somehow conveying aggravated impatience with a sound of mechanical rustling, the card was replaced with:

[Fine, be rude, I’ll get it]
“I must say, Miz R, you have a gift for discovering the curious among the mundane,” even as the Proprietor stepped towards his companion, the small automaton reached the door. It’s right hand briefly disappeared into it’s waistcoat now held up a new intertitle card, opened the door; the man standing in the doorway stared then smiled as he read:

[Thank you, but while I cannot be Saved, the two people behind me, well good luck!]

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “our three adventurers fight over appetizers….not“

June 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 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, in our tale…

Prompt word:

CHARGE

“Welcome to the Signature Room…

Fuck you…I beg your pardon?…Yeah, well it’s not like
you and your Order are totally without sin….Faith ‘an begorra
can we have a little civility for one evening’s meal…Alright enough bicker
ing and who invited Darby O’Gill…do what you want…I’m here
for the Mechanism…yeah, I’ll just bet you are….
guilty as charged is that who I think it is?
Damn, way more in person…

Anya Clarieaux is a person of remarkable eccentricities, blinding intelligence and near-limitless Will. While any two of these qualities would guarantee the average man or woman success in most endeavors, she was possessed of all three and was not encumbered by the slightest concern for conforming social standards. It is our collective good fortune the current Executive Administrative Assistant of the Omni Corporation cultivated humility to a degree that would make Mother Theresa come across like Kid Rock; she abhorred publicity and was passionate about accruing power.

“Everyone, please stop talking.”

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Wednesay -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…a simple question’

June 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 8 Comments

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

What fun synchronicity can be!!

Below is the start of Wednesday’s post. It was written before we posted today’s post. Fine.

Friend of the Doctrine Frank was kind enough to include the Day’s Secret Word, achronologic in his Comment.

There’s a non-linear connection here, don’cha think?

Yesterday’s post got us a question lodged in our editorial/rhetorical head:

When looking at photos of people you know, why is it that the young version is easier to identify than the old version? Not to put too fine a point on it, we’re talking about early adolescents sitting around looking at photos of classmates from when they were, like, five or ten years old. (Hint, the eyes are most often the tip-off).

ok. we all remember doing that, like it was yesterday.

But now! Fast-forward to a fifty (ok, assuming your Curator is providing the top limits of hypo-youthfulness), lets call it a thirty-fifth year class reunion. Good luck identifying your classmates, yo.

There ya go.

And to tie this to Frank’s involuntary trigger of the past: ‘achronologic’ is the adjective most frequently associated with the Herd Member.

Why?

’cause rogers exist in the (personal) reality of emotion. and even a third grader will tell you, “emotion is ‘non-rational, man.”

(ok, provided this hypothetical 8-to-9 year old person is a clark)

Disagree? Have a different take on our conclusion? Feeling there’s another way to frame the question? Have at it. (Be sure to document your opinion to the pertinent elements, aspects or inferences found in the actual Wakefield Doctrine. Doing so makes it so much easier to retort, ‘What are ya. crazy??! Did you even crack the book?!! Cliff Notes we’ll even accept them as a primary source to support an assertion.” (lol..jes kidding. your predominant worldview serves as an inviolable imprintatur, lettre de transit

Wednesday! Wednesday!! Wednesday!!!

The doors open on Denise’s Six Sentence Story bloghop! Stop in. Read. Enjoy. Comment. Tell us your favorite characters. and…and! there’s a way-big chance you’ll be able to enjoy the next installment in the ongoing Serial Six: ‘The Café and the Time Whorl’ *

*so you don’t have to click on the ‘when last we saw our characters’ of last week’s Six, here are the last entry from the writers:

Denise (as the Bartender)
Reelika (as Aurelia)
Frank (as the Concerned Friend)
Mimi (as,,,Mimi)
your humble Curator (as the tall, thin man)
…and the one who set us on this current narrative path:
Chris (as la Raconteuse)

yer welcome

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Teusday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 23, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

RePrint¹ Tuesday. aka clark’s Day of the Workweek. It’s called this because the level of scrutiny* has declined from Monday and the get-settled-in Wednesday is a day away. (Thursday is, arguably, a clarklike day and Friday, well might as well hand the scotts some textbooks (to throw in the air) as it is, for our rambunctious friends, Weekend Eve.

Well, seein’ how we were gonna make this an easy Wakefield Doctrine post, lets find something for listening music (not excessively ear wormish, but, you know, hum-able aka ‘jeez those ’70s what did I do to my brain?!!?))

*every clark’s kryptonite and existential ‘Kick Me’ sign acquired during the endless two years spent at William Golding Junior High School. scotts and rogers can skip this poignant reference to an aspect of the formative years of most Outsiders because a) you can’t appreciate it (even with a raging secondary clarklike aspect) and 2) yeah, you other two do remember but, as every post always tends to subtext, “I believe you be. I remember it differently. (Little reward for Readers: mention the word ‘achronologic’ in your Comment and we’ll totally include you in a Muse-link in tomorrow’s post.

it’s garbage day… no time to make up a new..er Post! the Wakefield Doctrine (hey…lighten the hell up!)

November 14, 2014

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

“...the ego of a clark is a thing of subtle, yet supreme majesty. clarks walk the earth, desperately hoping that, as in the fables where a king dresses as a commoner (the better to know his subjects), they will be accepted into the homes and hearts of the people they meet. and they are, in part, because the commoners, ‘the real people’ are not fooled by the clark’s attempted disguises. the joke is on the clark because the bosses/ the teachers/ the girl at the gas station/ the co-workers/ the lovers/ the friends/ the spouses and the people-we-really-can’t-seem-to-get-along-with…. everyone that a clark naturally meets in the course of the days of their lives, knows (or suspects) that clarks are not the king in disguise. and, even though they wonder why the clarks believe they need to disguise their true natures, most are happy to play along, choosing to accept us with our quirks, recognizing our innate good natures.” (the book of the clarks… Wakefield Doctrine)

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Hey! lets do a re-print Post!!! (I fear I’ve said too much as it is), from November 13, 2012…

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of personality that you get to enjoy with your friends and them, before it gets all famous and mainstreamy and everyone will know about it)

Question: If your husband is a roger and you are a clark, is it true that they never accept how much you have changed over the years, since you first met?
Answer: Too true¹

(Welcome to ‘ya shoulda just asked Tuesday’! We will be presenting some common questions and the semi-comprehensive answers…along with a little commentary, mostly to let us get away with dividing the page into block quotes.’)

Question: My best friend is funny and fun to be with, but sometimes when we are around other people he gets like, mean even goes and picks on me. But this happens only with certain people, this big kid that (my friend) knows. What gives?

Answer: Chances are your friend is a scott and the person that, when they’re around, your friend starts acting mean?…well, that other person is a scotttoo, but they are what we call dominant (to your friend). So your friend, even though he is picking on you, doesn’t mean to hurt your friendship… it’s a pack² thing, you know?
Answer: jeez, if you say so

(This question deals with the changing pack order (from the scottian perspective) and it’s effects on the behavior of a scott. Note: this question (and by implication, the experience cited), will most likely be posed by a clark. Do you know why that should be?)

Question: My fiancée and I are getting close to the Big Day. When we first got engaged, we both agreed to keep the ceremony and everything on the quiet, low-key side, but lately, ( the wedding is in 3 months), she has been talking more to her sisters and some of her old friends and it seems like the guest list is getting bigger and bigger. What gives?

Answer: She is probably a roger. Forget about changing her mind. It means a lot to her, in a way that you will never understand. So relax! Sneak a couple of your friends that she might not have approved when the guest list was small, she probably won’t even notice now, and if she does make an issue of it, say the following to her (word for word): “I understand how important family is to you now. And even though I am not close to my family, you have shown me that my feelings³ of friendship with (fill in the names of you friends) make them like family. Won’t you let my family join your family …darling?”

(And there are those who would say, ‘Hey Wakefield Doctrinaires! Sure you have a uniquely clever take on personality types, but what about practical applications? Huh, what about those?‘ Well, here ya go! Who cannot not identify with this situation? …not counting the rogers, of course!)

Question: My boss is nice enough, but it seems like he tries too hard to be, like my friend or something! Every day it is ‘how are you doing?’, “is there anything I can do to make your job easier?” I mean, all the time! I can’t get any work done when he is in the office, he is always offering to ‘help’! I might be able to deal with this, except that every time I do get some work done that he needs to sign off on, he always finds fault! And if I come up with something on my own initiative (he likes to say that he wants me to try to ‘think outside the box’) he is either totally negative or acts like he is amazed that I actually did it myself! Should I quite my job?
Answer: Probably.⁴

(This Question deals with a scenario that is all too common. And, although we do not propose that all bosses are rogers, we will say this, ‘If your boss is a scott you have: a) a good time everyday up until the day he decides that it is time to change careers or b) a lead pipe cinch of a sexual harassment lawsuit, so the day you get tired of her shenanigans, ‘it’s sayonara see ya in court’
If your boss is a clark, then we know the following: a) if your clarklike boss is female then her boss is a roger, if your clarklike boss is male then his boss is a scott! and b) they (clarks) make great bosses, will stick up for you totally against all opponents, but jeez! enough with the leadership by consensus! Get a set, yo.

That music referenced in the Title of today’s Post? Totally weird. I’m sitting and watching TV and a commercial comes on and before I can hit ‘MUTE’ I hear the music in the background (of the commercial) and I’m off to the great and omniscient google… and here we are

1) rogers are about consistency, if they are about anything at all! The worldview of the herd (rogers) maintains that history, tradition, continuity…consistency is of the greatest good! The worldview is also one in which the individual’s relationship with the world-at-large manifests primarily in emotional terms. So when a (lasting) relationship forms, the details of ‘the other’ person are important, in a sense, manifesting the emotional investment. So, as time goes by, even though people change and grow and develop, the roger will still insist on seeing the ‘original person’

2) scotts, in the initial behavioral metaphor: like pack animals, i.e. wolves, dogs, lions and such. The social ranking in the pack is one of simple dominance, an alpha at ‘the top’ and everyone else in order of strength/prowess/capability downward from there. It is a primary characteristic of the scottian personality type to establish ranking when entering a new (social ) environment. Literally going from person to person, figuratively pushing them on the shoulder in order to establish ranking

3) emotions! always play the emotion-card when dealing with rogers!

4) you could try to…nah, don’t even bother. Maybe if you got to the Doctrine sooner, you might have learned enough to invoke your own rogerian aspect to re-configure your work relationship… but too hard, too frustrating, easier to get another job. But then again, most bosses/middle managers/supervisors/Principals are rogers! so maybe you should be asking about the Wakefield Doctrine School of Self-Improving Oneself…school

1) ok, techinically a TrePrint

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Winter’s Dawn -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 22, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

Seeing how we’ve acquired a number of New Readers since last we faced Winter’s Dawn, it is incumbent upon us to explain this view. While radical in terms of the conventional view of time, the year and its Season, we say, ‘Better get used to it.’

Having passed the Summer Solstice, each day grows shorter, at least here in the northern hemisphere. And it doesn’t take more than a sugar-rushed sixth grade debating class to see the weakness in the opposing team’s position: “But the calendar says ‘It’s the Start of Summer, not the End.’ Sure, and hard work and serious demeanor is always rewarded. (ed. ‘holy shit’. take a moment to peruse the search results to ‘Sayings about Puritan work ethic‘. … if you’re not back here by….now! you have our condolensces. We’ll leave a music vid for you at the bottom of the post. If you remember to return. It’s not your fault or failing. It’s the lack of a secondary clarklike aspect of a sufficient intensity.) “au revoir, binyons“.

You’re still reading?

Good.

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. Predicated on the notion that there are three distinct, (yet subtly interrelated), ways to relate to the world at large. We, all of us, develop at a very early age a personality type that is best suited to the world, (and reality), as we’re experiencing it. We, all of us, become:

clarks the Outsider bound to the original sin of believing that everyone they see knows something that a clark does not; this knowledge is exhibited by their apparent comfort and affiliation with other people, despite the depth of association. the effect on the Outsider is to engender an eternal curiosity, an endless drive to learn what others clearly know that makes them collectively ‘a part of’
scotts the Predator bound, as apprentice to the original Tempter; scotts live in the paradise of the here and now, the simple, and arguably, more natural life of predator-prey. an eternal happiness measured by the next heartbeat, the day to be seized, the past un-begrudged and a future unlimited. a perfect lifeform of a god less insecure
rogers the Herd Member bound, unknowingly but to their credit, to the role of insufficient Creator, recoiling from the responsibility of the true craftsman who follows the edict: ‘A true craftsman stands by their work and accepts any flaws are their responsibility’.

We, all of us, learn the best strategies for surviing and thriving in the world as we experience it. Our individual personality types are, by this view perfect. While all live in a world dictated by one (and only one) predominant worldview, we have the potential, if’n we’re lucky, to have a secondary or even tertiary aspect significant enough to allow us, from time to time, to see the world as ‘the other two’ are experiencing it. These momentary glances into the world-we-did-not-grow-up-in can be dramatic and often a transcendent moment; more often than not under conditions of extreme duress. but still…

The ambition of the alternative perspective offered by the Wakefield Doctrine is, at it’s heart, an opportunity to identify with ‘the other two’ personal realities. Doing so, with practice, avails us of better appreciating the world as the other person is experiencing it.