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

As we saw in yesterday’s Post, scotts are rather distinctive in appearance, manner and behavior. The ‘eyes of a scott’ are the most reliable way to spot a scott on the basis of appearance. Male or female, (their) eyes are never at rest, ever alert for prey and other predators…scotts, they never look like they just chillin’, passin’ the time.

rogers, now, here we have a challenge for quick identification! They are, for the most part, an attractive people. rogers always fit right in, and have a highly developed, albeit dictated by the culture, sense of fashion. You might say that rogers are accustomed to dressing beautifully.

As scotts look at, constantly scanning the area ‘in front’ of them, rogers will be observed looking ‘to the side’. It’s amazing, there is that sense of they want to assure themselves that they are amid, amongst, a part, in the context of the herd. Whether it is there physically or there in principle. Just look at Angie! she and her members are looking to the left and the right, knowing that there are people who agree and more importantly approve of what they are doing and/or saying. There is always a sense, when you look at a person with the rogerian personality type, that they are surrounded by others.

We will have more (much more!) to say on the subject of our rogerian friends a little later in the day, be sure to check back in, later morning, early afternoon.

I will leave you now with the question: how well does Stewart resist the attack of the scott in the 2nd video  and  that guy in the Angie commercial… like does his wife shake it for him or what? what a piece of work that guy is!

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Exhibit B:

As mentioned yesterday, it is critical to your use and enjoyment of our little personality theory, that you understand that we are talking about the nature of reality (the individual’s ‘personal reality’) as much as, if not more than, the individual’s personality. A roger is a roger because they live in a world that, properly related to, produces in a person the behaviors and traits, likes and dislikes that we attribute to the rogerian personality type. Do not forget that we are talking ‘predominances, tendencies’  we are talking about how a person relates themselves to the world they find themselves in. The most appropriate coping strategies in what we describe as the rogerian worldview results in the personality type we call  rogers.  pretty simple, isn’t it?

rogers (adv rogerian; pronunciation: ‘roe -jeer -riann’)

The ‘initial metaphor’ for a roger is that of any animal that naturally associates with it’s own kind in a ‘herd’. The primary characteristic derived from this metaphor is one of ‘belonging’, being a group member, similar in all important aspects to the others in the group (herd). ( In contrast to the clarklike personality type, a roger,  is never, ever an Outsider.)

rogers experience the world as an ordered place, the nature of the world (to a roger) is that it is quantifiable, definable and predictable.  To a roger the world is, basically good  …provided, of course,  the rules and guides and laws are expressed and all people conform to these rules.
This perception is paired with a drive (within the personality type)  to impose order, through rules and laws on the world.

Of the three, rogers are the emotional ones, this emotion forms the ‘currency’ of their interactions with others, both inside and outside of the herd.

While clarks ‘gather by themselves’ and  scotts organize ‘as a pack’, the characteristic grouping of rogers is ‘the herd’.

• rogers are the friendly ones, of the three personality types, the person you will mostly likely recall having a pleasant conversation with
• rogers are the warp ( or maybe the woof! lol) to whatever social fabric you might care to consider, be it civic, religious, scientific or other cultural expression
• rogers require rules and traditions, they are, in fact, the only ‘reason’ that  human civilization has any continuity whatsoever
• rogers are behind the creation and perpetuation of, virtually all human institutions, religious, civic, political
• rogers do not create, they maintain, they assemble, they are the machine operators
• rogers are the engineers, accountants and physicians
• rogers are the judges, the firefighters and high school teachers (except for gym teachers)
• rogers believe in a quantifiable universe to such a depth that it is not separable
• when you are new to a neighborhood, rogers are the ones who come over to introduce themselves, and they will appear in a group ( herd),

rogers live to be with those who they perceive to be like themselves. rogers  accept the existence of others (non-herd members), but do not concern themselves with any of the ideas or notions held by outsiders.

Without rogers there would be no civilization; they are the traditionalists, the conservatives (not necessarily in a political sense of the word), they maintain what was and codify what is, rogers organize and (having organized), will put all their efforts towards maintaining this order. When whoever it was that said, ‘the devil lives in the details’, they were seeing the world as a roger.

(Accountants and bankers, engineers and carpenters, doctors and cooks, computers programmers and musicians, followers and priests, lawyers and journalists.)
…They are all rogers.