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

Hey!  here’s something I found in the metaphorical trunk… it’s from way back… don’t worry! I’m just block quoting it on top of this Post! the same great re-print Post about scotts is still here, at least for today.  (I don’t know.. just feel like it, I guess…ya know?    this is from January 10th 2910

Lets talk about COUPLES!   Yes, I’m talking about: two of a pair, walkin’ hand in hand, complete each other sentence(s)… let’s hear it for the destroyer of all (non-sexual) friendships the one, the only because we are so close we are a….can you hear it? …the world is saying it, as one, out of two….   the   Couple!

I know that (the) roger has you on CSR 101 (clarks, scotts and rogers) and this is the most correct approach to learning this thing.  Get the basics of the Doctrine down, look around at the people in your life, match description of each of the three types and your world will soon be populated with clarks, scotts and rogers; all acting and re-acting,  interacting and detracting…to your benefit and improvement.  …But is there more…? (Go ahead,  you know what’s behind thislink.)

Of course there is more, how can there not be more?

There are/is/am the couple, the friendship that has sexual contrast as the primary feature/dynamic.  (Hey this is the 21st-damn-Century!)  Yes, we are talking about when 2 people are linked by sexual difference.  Male-female/male-male/female-female, does not matter.  The  sexual component does.  Make(s) the difference.  All of the difference.) (All) (OF) (IT).

They are not friends…they are a Couple!  (Here is a little mood music, courtesy of Joe Jackson.  Sorry, no video).

OK, fine.  What good does that do us?

I’ll tell you.  It gives us a very, very useful (teaching) tool for the Wakefield Doctrine.  Because the best way to understand the Doctrine is to see examples of the 3 types (of people) in your life.  And, as everyone past puberty knows, being a Couple brings out the best in us! (And so, totally the worst in us).

So, let’s begin (our little lesson) with the easiest of the Couples to identify: rogerian male/scottian female.

This is the most ‘attractive’ of Couples.  They are both attractive, in every sense of the word.  Although if you want to get technical about it, she has the ‘sex appeal’ and he has the ‘socialibility skills’.
She is hot and he is charming.  They look great together.  (Now, think about what you know about each respective type: rogers are social, herd based and will identify with the group, scotts are individualistic and will hunt alone, but will focus all attention on one person at a time.)

But how do you really know that you are meeting a scottian/rogerian Couple?  The interaction, what they do with each other and to each other.  She will be the more aggressive one, he will seem to be more relaxed.  One of the ‘primary characteristics of the scottian female/rogerian male couple is how they talk about themselves.  She will talk to and about her partner in a very noticeable style.  A style that everyone that is listening wants to believe is affectionate ‘criticisms’.
“Hey! You know what roger here did the other day?”  “You should have heard roger at the party the other night”…all of these comments and remarks are presented with an overall  ‘I really love this guy’ kind of vibe.  ‘Jokingly’ critical but still on a fairly personal level.  And all for the benefit of the crowd standing around our  Couple.
(btw.  And he does give every impression of enjoying this kind of exchange, the repartee. (The rogerian male), he laughs at her as much as she appears to be laughing at him.)

There is a clear dynamic tension with this couple.  As a Couple they both make an impression, they are not to be ignored.

Just a thought…

You know that this Doctrine is ‘gender neutral’, right? (You should know it is the first item in the column to the right).  I just had a conversation with an associate (at work) about the whole clark, scott, roger thing.  And she said, “I’ll only go to the blog if you add a name for a female scott”.  To which I replied, “No”

(Wednesday October 2) man! I better get this Doctrine out on the road*! here I am, at my day job and I stop in to check who was reading what at everyone’s favorite personality theory and all-day lunchroom, and what do I see but this Post with the evocative title:
“nothing is more humblin than gettin your butt kicked”… M. Tyson
Hell, here, I’ll just copy and paste and then maybe you’ll be diverted from your gainful employment like I was! (btw ‘Sharing the misery’ is a distinctly rogerian thing, but that’s for tomorrow’s Post)

so here from 03/06/2011

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

If you think we’re going to make fun of Mr. Tyson, you are wrong. …and you are a scott.

Which is all we need to jump start this here Post here…scotts

scotts  ( sk’-ott ) ( !! )  n.

1. the second of the three personality types comprising the Wakefield Doctrine
2. a person born in a section of the UK ( country referred to as United Klingons)

scottian  ( sco’- shun) adj.

1. to be aggressive, either physically or socially
2. to be quick-tempered, mercurial
3. to act in an impulsive, yet confident manner

the scottian personality as defined in the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is the personality type for whom the world is a jungle, literally and/or figuratively. scotts live in a world of predator and prey,  hunter and hunted, a world in which the only meaningful social order is that of  ranking; as most pack animals do, the scottian personality is constantly challenging the others in the (social) environment to see who is dominant and who is submissive.

We kid scotts, but they are not only fierce and aggressive ( the scottian male ) and attractive and fierce ( the scottian female persons),  they are loyal and highly protective friends. Of course, the word protective is rather close to possessive, so if you are a member of a scotts‘ pack you can expect a certain degree of direction (from the pack leader).  Now it is Sunday and we really are not going into a long, technical, clarklike, boring exegesis of the scottian personality types. But then we are ‘leading the Post’ with Mike, so we would be remiss if we did not talk a little about our scottian friends. to wit:

If you have a scottian friend then you are most likely a clark; if you are the friend of a scott,  you are roger….and if you don’t know what this means, then you are a scott.

As with the other two types, our description of the scottian personality is exaggerated for purposes of illustration and identification and dramatization. Never, ever, forget that the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the fact that we all have the potential of the three personality types and it is only a predominance of one (over the other two) that makes us  clarks or scotts or rogers. Further, those of you who are still reading this have a certain…proclivity…flexibility of intelligence that makes reading these Posts fun. Most people, no matter if they are clarks or scotts or rogers can see beyond their own realities sufficiently to allow for the Doctrine to be the thing of beauty that it is for many of us.

Lets wrap this up, for now. You all probably expect a Joe Pesci or Jack Nicholson video clip to serve as illustration, but you would be totally wrong. We need to not ignore them scottian female people. Well, we can ignore them but the results would be…less than attractive…but wait a minute!  that all depends if the ‘ignorerer‘ is a clark or (another) scott or a roger. While it is beyond the scope of this Post to delve into the scottian females’ response to frustration…suffice to say it would be exciting. Simply know that scottian females are as aggressive and impulsive and confident and as stupid (at times) as are their male counter-parts. They just look better (to half the population) doing it.

So a quick clip of a scottian female: