the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [“… at the Bottom of the Sea, the mood becomes somber, despite Rita Spring giving it her all”]

April 9, 2026 By clarkscottroger 14 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:

RELAY

“Any word from our gumshoe?”

It has been suggested by some in the arcane field of Ontological Linguistics that the first language was not developed by Man, rather it’s origin was among the apex predators just before humankind rushed the stage like a primordial Kanyé and wrestled the mike from the lions and the crocodiles.

Lacking only a pith helmet, (plentiful in the strippers’ prop room), a whip, (way plentiful) and a wooden chair, (the classics never disappear completely), Diane Tierney, hostess and de facto business manager for the strip club half of Lou Caesare’s establishment, leaned across the booth,

“Nothing since he left yesterday, a gap in time Olympic relay racers would disregard; however, if you want, I’ll reach out to his admin, Hazel, see if our detective has set up an update schedule.”

“Good thinking, Diane, that broad’s got her shit together, don’t know why she stays with Devereaux, at least not after I made her an offer…” the owner of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge laughed his crocodile laugh through a cloud of cigar smoke. Allowing himself to be captured by his manager’s raised eyebrow response, waved his hand to disperse the smoke, “Pardon my French.”

They both laughed; the stripper on stage, Rita Spring, heard them and missed the next-to-last clump of crabgrass of her costume and, in a desperation move, went right to her hardscape finish.

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [“…Sister Aclima enters a thrift store, walks out a civilian”]

April 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 17 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:

RELAY

Sister Aclima, entering the Salvation Army Store dressed in the habit of the Order of Lilith, stepped out onto the Hell’s Kitchen sidewalk wearing: pin-striped bell-bottom slacks, macramé belt (with a brass Ankh buckle), Ralph Lauren button-down shirt and a grey hoodie with ‘Property of the University of Ingolstadt’ stenciled on the back. Her Rieker Ballet Flats the better to maintain a sense of continuity despite her Order-approved habit safely in a red Salvation Army tote bag,

The former Kayla Sheperd decided that, for the moment, perhaps her mission was as much a test of her personal resiliency as a trial of her faith in the Order. That the details were scarce and vague and relayed by a guide-slash-mercenary rather than properly presented by her Mother Superior back at the Abbey was not reassuring.

Her phone rang,

“Saints be praised, Sister Mary Surreptitious answers her phone; had you an inkling of the trouble you’ve created for me with your gallivanting around this foine city, you’d surely be heading to confession…wait, sorry, mixing the habits with the cassocks,” a bark of masculine laughter stood in for a semi-colon; “So lass, are ye ready to get serious now?”

“Now Rover, don’t make me get all Cesar Millan on your mangy ass, I’m actually glad you called; there’s been a change in my M.O. so I need a place to crash, off the radar, if you get my drift.”

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

If you permit us to dispense with all the set-up and qualification for the thesis of today’s post, i.e. which of the three will get it, why the ‘other two’ don’t, what you say we just jump right in.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up) that is useful as a tool. A tool to aid in our effort to self-improve ourselfs.

As is the case with most (simple) machines and (their scottian cousins) simple tools, their most basic (and therefore, efficacious) operation should be immediately apparent. So too, with our Doctrine.

So here’s the thing: it’s not that the Doctrine doesn’t bring about changes in how we relate ourselves to the world around us, it does. It’s that we don’t always accept the changes we know in our minds are what we ‘want’.

In other words, ‘We go into the Better Self Store. Find what we’ve been looking for and take it to the Checkout counter. Pay for it. Proceed to walk out of the store, leaving our purchase on the counter.*

yeah, like that.

New Readers! Some of you, the more adept at this Doctrine thing, are probably feeling less than well. A slight drop in the stomach, heat in the face etc. Don’t despair. You’ve already done the hard work. Most (say 2/3) of people don’t know there’s a store. Of those who do, most of them, don’t know where it is** and finally, of them who drive into the parking lot, almost all don’t have what it takes to walk into the store.

*or, worse, take out out of the store, put it on the roof of our vehicle as we unlock the doors and…drive away with it still on the roof. (yeah, you more advanced, imaginative Readers, the pedestrians, they be all, “My goodness! Don’t that driver know they’ve left they purchase on de roof?”

** Hint: it’s somewhere different for each of us and is not always clearly marked. (On our maps. We’re doing a metaphor/allegory/parable here, people. yeah, again. lol)

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2-ooze dé -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 7, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

Seeing how we’re in a Back-to-Basics theme this week, lets get all, ‘these-are-some-of-the-certainties-of-the-Doctrine:

clark (the Outsider) …”not a problem, we’ll gladly accept these certainties…until the next set comes along.”
scott (the Predator) “what are you talking about? you run away from us? we chase/ you run at us we fight, pretty simple, isn’t it?”
roger (the Herd Member) “now you’re talking our language! have a seat we’ll tell you everything we need you to know.”

that (bullet list)? We’ll leave it un: tended/edited/refined, ’cause the Wakefield Doctrine is the kind of thing that if you get it, you enjoy it. If not, can’t be helped.

We, all of us, have one, (and only one), predominant worldview. It is: the context/conditions/biases against which we, when tiny, little babies develop: the social strategies/interpersonal style/way-to-get-through-life schema.

By this, (the above), definition, we all have the perfect (or best-we-could-do) personality types. They are geared to the personal reality that we all, individually: grew up/matured in/and made the best of.

The ‘other two personality types?’ They are within us and have the potential to become significant influences in: our lives/interpersonal interactions/efforts to live well.

Needless to say, (well, as far as the clarks reading this), there are no: hybrids/mutations/sports when it comes to predominant worldviews/personality types in the Wakefield Doctrine perspective.

ProTip/Insider Info/’Don’t-tell-anyone-but-I-like-you scoop, the greater the degree of enthusiasm/fervor/desire to be accepted as this special case deserving acceptance by others, the likelihood this person is one of the three approaches lead-pipe cinch status. (Won’t tell anyone. …ok, just a hint: the predominant worldview we’re referring to rhymes with roger,

mums the word.

questions?

thanks and a shout-out to one of the leading Students of this here Doctrine here, our friend Cynthia (totally stylin’ in a Wakefield Doctrine T at the top of the post)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 6, 2026 By clarkscottroger 2 Comments

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

(I’ve called you all here on a matter of grave concern…..lol)

Let’s do a ‘This is a football‘ post.

Thanks, Vince. Love the work with the collegiate-commercial complex and, of course, the shoring up the patriarchy behind most institutions.

We do not come here to praise football, but to bury it under a pile of rogers.

ok. Monday morning now.

Sticking(ish) with the theme, lets see how we wrote it eleven years ago (?!?!#^?? eleven. years. ago!)

the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the people in our lives, that can, when properly applied, lead to understanding them in ‘additional ways’. By ‘additional ways’, we mean… ‘what am I doing that is an integral aspect in how they are acting?

(…. “Ladies and Gentleman this is ‘an inflated leather spindle torus’” sorry, lol… I was trying to write ‘the speech’, but thought about the ‘setup’…post game speech… locker room… various states of dress…demographics of the current readership…. me standing on a bench (in that locker room)….lol) wait! wait! let me try again.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective. It’s a way to see the world, it’s a way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives. It’s not an Answer, it’s a Question. And…. (hey!! Val!! please!!! no leaning out the window and shouting at the people in the CVS parking lot!!! come on! they’re on serious, old person/sick person business!! thank you. ) the Question is: ‘how does my spouse/the girl at the 7/11, / the Teacher who is shaping my 7 year old’s life/ the people I read about in the news… how do they appear to be ‘relating themselves to the world around them’?’ The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that we all live in a personal reality (aka worldview) that is characterized as (one) of the following:

live as ‘the Outsider’ (clarks) always apart from, different, trying to understand what it is they don’t understand, trapped by the belief that it is about knowledge

the world of the Predator (scotts) seemingly confident (always looking for threats and opportunity), active and impulsive running into doors as often as gallantly opening them, protective and paranoid

the life of the Herd Member (rogers) self-assured, as the world of the roger is one that is quantifiable/(and limited), knowable/(and ignorable) ordered and simple… searching only for ‘the Right Way’/ missing the enjoyment of the un-expected and strange

What the Wakefield Doctrine refers to as ‘personality types’ is simply the skill set we develop in order to successfully cope with the reality that we find ourselves growing up in and living our lives in … (‘no Kimberly… we can’t stop for donuts…. we have to drive to Galilee next…. yes, Lisa I will try to walk on the water… very funny’). So what we are saying with the Doctrine is this: understand the three worldviews, infer how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them and they will do the rest. No, I’m serious! Ask anyone! Once you start to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your life, they will ‘act the part’ to a degree that is sometimes a little scary. But fun.. The goal of all of this is: to try to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

It takes imagination. It takes the kind of curious mind that not only is capable of, but enjoys imagining that a person is a Predator (figuratively) or creative perfectionist or… or even the person who is ever the Outsider, but always manages to be a part of…secretly, of course!

…ok everyone out! we’re back.

No, they’re not.

Back ‘then’, that is. They are long distant in the Before Time.

Let’s wrap this up.

The Wakefield Doctrine, (besides being a perspective), is a tool and an amusement, an insight and a diversion. This because, at the core of the Doctrine, at the heart of everyone’s favorite personality theory, is the belief that all reality, on a basic and not overly-grand level, is personal. A view that no more diminishes the common sensibility of ‘reality’ than reading Shakespeare makes one the Bard.

ya know?