the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [“… Anya Clarieaux, hearing the beat of a suprarational drummer, has fun with a phone”]

April 15, 2026 By clarkscottroger 18 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 with Rosetta… / Previously with Ian…

Prompt word:

SHUFFLE

“Hold on Mr. Devereaux, I’ll patch you through.”

The Delta Lounge at Philadelphia’s International Airport offered a panoramic view of all the non-diverted flights taking off, a minor consolation being ZZ Top doing their Texas-shuffle classic ‘La Grange’ in rotation on the sound system; for god knows what reason, I found myself thinking the best use of time during my unscheduled layover was to try and rattle my favorite adversary, of course, that being Anya Clarieaux, was not exactly a low-risk gambit.

The operator was human as I knew for a fact that the de-facto head of the Omni Corporation would no more utilize an AI than the Pope would ask for a Ritz Cracker in the middle of Easter Mass; Anya Clarieaux shared a quality with most kindergarten teachers, charismatic preachers and third-world dictators, i.e. she trusted herself and only herself.

“Ian Devereaux, what a delightful surprise; I’m on the line with Lou Caesare’s niece Rosetta and her little friend ‘the Valedictorian’… sorry… ‘the Sophomore’ (does he have a real name like Sam or Elmer)…never mind; Ian, you always bring me the nicest playmates; remind me to thank you sometime, in person… wait a minute, Miz Storme, this is speaker phone time, you were saying…”

“I don’t give a shit about time machines, time clocks or closing time, all I want is for someone to get that fuckin’ Order of Lilith off my case.”

Anya laughed her slightly-scary laugh, “Talk not far from the tree; not to worry Rosetta, I happen to know a representative of that organization who I met in London with Ian a few years ago by the name of Sister Aclima…

“I know what’d make this even more fun, hold on you two, (sorry Elmer, you three), the clickety sound of an old-fashion telephone dial rotating then a ringing sound followed by a woman asking the most ubiquitous of one-word questions, “Yes?”

“Sista A how you been…. it’s your friend Anya… Anya Clarieaux… shame, shame, chica, you haven’t been keeping in touch… ‘fraid you might’ve thought you could ghost me after that time in London, wait hold on…

Ian, you have done it again… I believe what we got here is a ‘bottle episode’.”

Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 15, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is to enhanced quality of life as water to coffee.

…as wind to a kite?

…that well-worn-in, totally comfortable item of clothing to interacting with strangers in a social setting?

…ok, how about as love is to sex?

We think, (being a clark), you get the idea by now.

(that’s not to say that we, the editorial ‘we’, can’t see the words forming in the thought balloons over the heads of certain Readers out there.)

you wanna know the single thing that, once accepted, can make a difference in your day today? Embracing the tightrope balance of ‘there is only today‘ [and] ‘the heck with consequences, turn it to 11 and go for it‘

not to get analytical (lol ikr? “hey! how come the Curator gets to be all clarklike but I need to not be too scottian or rogerian?) yeah, like it’s even possible to be too scottian or overly rogerian

the reason that the Wakefield Doctrine has such awesome potential power is that it is pointing out ways of relating to the world around us that we all are heir to.

ya know?

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pre-Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

So you have more ‘friends’ who are rogers than friends who are scotts and, not possible to accurately account for them…than clarks

Why would this be?

To start, statisticually, in any given population the ratios of the three predominant worldviews are: 69% roger 21% scott and 17% clark

(We good so far?)

For our purposes today we identify ‘friends’ as those people you might think of when, outside of the workplace, classroom, schoolyard or the interior of your parent’s car, you would trust with a personal secret and/or potentially embarrassing aspect of your private life.

According to industrial science experts, you’re more likely to have two other people in your car than four (other people).

So who are your friends?

From the perspective of the Doctrine it breaks down like this:

clarks: 1.5 rogers and 1 scott
scotts: at least 18 rogers and 1, maybe, 2 clarks
rogers: rogers don’t have friends, they have a Herd.* Not that there is anything wrong with that… the sense of belonging, relationship and fealty to others in (a) Herd is considered the equivalent (by rogers)

So get out there today and count the clarks, scotts and rogers who persist in hanging out with you.

Hey! We promised, at the beginning of this blog in 2009, that if you study and learn the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine you would be in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

…you’re welcome

*while rogers don’t have friends, they are friends of others (pretty much limited to clarks)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger 1 Comment

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

Being a topic-less Monday, let’s do two things:

look to the comments to provide something of a pro tem topic or theme
return, if only as a brief review, to the topic of the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool to aid in self-improving oneself
remind New Readers that the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up comprised of three personality types that are predicated on the character of the relationship one maintains with the world; there being three such relationships:
1. clarks (the Outsider)
2. scotts (the Predator)
3. rogers (the Herd Member)

No hybrid vigor needed, just a bit of inter-worldview fluency (or at least tourist level fluency)

damn! says it about all, don’cha know? and…and it succinctly refererences the whole point of learning this here personality here, to be better able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

I think that past is past for a reason and would not want to time travel even in these flashbacks

It was a good story:)

Reelika on: Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [“…our Sophomore, ‘In a River, Twice-Stepped’]

ty, R! the business of time travel is more hazardous that the old episodes of Star Trek made them out to be.

Involuntary time travel. Gosh, nightmare –Misky

Well said. ‘minds us of our first effort at writing fiction, ‘the Number You Have Reached is no Longer in Service’

Cynthia

She joined us on the Saturday Night call-in. A most excellent and spirited discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine and her latest youtube project…the latest of which is:

and… just in case one was tempted to underestimate the ‘all over the reality front’ of us at the Doctrine, today’s happy song:

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TToT the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Created by Lizzi R in 1941 even as the summer thunderstorms spawned lethal clouds of German bombers raining destruction on London. Yet her sense of ‘there really should be something like this bloghop in the world if for no other reason than to allow people to bind in common celebration’, resulted in the creation of the TToT. Even if it took another eighty years or so.

And so, we have a Gratitude bloghop, the TToT. Easy to participate, beneficial to share and fun to write. (The secret of this ‘hop is, despite seeming to be quite demanding in form and content (Ten!! things of thankful. In a list, thank you very much)? The hosts (and hostinae) are quite gifted in both the creativity of content and presentation department(s).

So, you’re invited to drag the ole keyboard out from under the dust and post-its and share the people, places, things and events that inspired you to say, “Well, that’s a good thing to have happened’. (any scotts out there? the passive pluperfect subjunctive voice is optional)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Wakefield Doctrine (hat) on the road. Friend of the Doctrine Alex, with his Doctrine hat, claiming the Grand Canyon by Rite of Hat*

5) it didn’t snow this past week (though it fricken’ could’ve, as temperatures were in the 20°s overnight midweek lol)

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) “oh! the humanity!!” the album we pulled a music vid from, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. We’ll to out on a limb and say, ‘Among Readers today there is a significant percentage who still know the lyrics’. (no, we won’t do the math). damn! Even worse! we remember the order of the songs.

8) something, something

9) old project complete, new project beginning here’s a Before photo (with any luck we’ll have an After photo next weekend)

Before