Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the practice of inferring the worldview of the other person and, by correctly doing so (aided by the descriptions contained herein), know more about the other person than they know about themselves …. er theory!)

Study Hour went… great!  lol  ‘for all of having been doing this blog for a while: I managed to send the wrong access code to one of our participants, DS#1 was late calling in and otherwise got off to a slow start. DS#1 and Molly and Steve called-in, and it was a very good Call. (sort of like the first class in every semester? where you get out early because no one has any assignments yet? like that..only in reverse. I showed up early with plenty of ‘assignments’ and we ended up staying late and looking at aspects of the Doctrine that were not, shall we say, on the syllabus!)
Next week’s Study Hour will be a bit more organized, don’t forget to put your name on the sign up sheet! It’s fun, informative and interesting.

A Question raised by Steve and ‘totally tore up on‘ by Molly and DS#1 in yesterday’s Hour:

We’ll call it ‘a party’, but it could be a gathering, a cookout, a prayer meeting, a meet-and-greet, a first date, a confession, a procession, bat mitzvar, Ramdan, First Communion, Last Rites, classroom instruction, intervention, pre-surgery consultation or simply, you and some friends and people. It is comprised of more than 5 people, it is in one location and mingling is encouraged. You will look and you will see:

• scotts surrounded by a group of people
• rogers in the center of a group of people
• clarks noticing you watching the group of people
• rogers will move very slowly, if at all, preferring to draw people to their group ( herd, remember?)
• scotts always moving, but one-on-one (this is a primary characteristic of the scottian personality type! the behavioral paradigm is that of a pack animal, and packs are all about ranking and scotts will, without fail interact with everyone at ‘the party’ and push them on the shoulder (figuratively or literally) and determine if the other is dominant or submissive…and move on to the next one)
• clarks move constantly, but you probably won’t notice it (like in one of those 1950’s graphic puzzles  ‘Find the Fireman…or Cowboy’ in where you look and look and stare and stare and you can’t figure where it is and then you give up and as you glance away, there it is!)
• the scottian females will be surrounded by male rogers
• the female clark will be pretending to follow the speed-rap of the scott in front of her (she is actually standing sideways to him) while waiting for her rogerian date to realize that he doesn’t have a prayer with the scottian female
• the rogerian female is ‘power arranging’ the refreshments, rehearsing in her head what she is going to say to her scottian husband in the car on the way home
• the male scott is telling jokes, each joke is successively more offensive to his audience and, the scott seems to draw as much from watching the people walk away as he does from the people who are still listening
• the clark is exchanging one group for another, it is almost like watching an expert fly fisherman! he (the clark) is standing ‘with’ a group with a roger or a scott at it’s center, but rather than simply walk away, the clark will ‘hook onto’ something being said in a nearby group… catch the attention of one of that group…wait, then move towards the center of his group veering away to continue on to his new group! ( Confused?  find your clarklike friend and ask her/him, they’ll explain)

One last reminder! When you are thinking about the Doctrine and are approaching the question of “is this a rogerian or a scottian thing to do”… stop!  Remember the whole Doctrine is foundationed on the idea of personal realities ( worldviews ) and all of the use and value comes from being able to infer what kind of world the other person is experiencing and by doing that, know the why of their behavior as much as the what (of their behavior). But the thing of it is, we all do everything at one time or another, what matters (from the Doctrine’s point of view) is how does this thing manifest when done in the reality of the Outsider, or how would it feel to do that in the world of the Predator or what must that seem like if it happens and you are in the worldview of the herd member? It’s about experiencing the reality of the other person, yo.