Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Fear:
the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on life, behavior and human interaction that is predicated on the idea that we all live, to a small but significant degree, in a reality that is personal to each and everyone of us. the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that, at a very early age, we all find ourselves in one of three personal realities (worldviews): the reality of the Outsider (clarks), the life of the Predator (scotts) and the world of the Herd (rogers) and that our efforts to successfully cope with the circumstances, situations, challenges and opportunities of (these) three distinctly characteristic worldviews results in what we call ‘personality type’. the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that by correctly inferring the worldview of the other person, we are in a position to see the world as the other person is experiencing it and that only by accepting the premise that the reality they are experiencing may be different in very fundamental ways, are we able to truly understand their behavior. When we learn the characteristics of the three worldviews, we became capable of directly appreciating how the other person relates themselves to the world around them. The most direct benefit of this rather unique understanding, is that we will know more about the other person than they know about themselves.
…about that fear. It is the dominant factor in the world of a clark.
(yes, it is true that the Doctrine Rule of ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’ applies to this subject, so even though this Post is clearly directed to the clarks in the Readership, lets establish how fear is manifested in the other two worldviews, so that we can continue with our Post. (For) scotts, fear is like sweat and (for) rogers fear is like body odor. We good? Can we continue with our effort to understand fear and clarks? Cool)
This topic is difficult. Not that any of you clarks, will not understand (yeah right), but I admit to a certain fear that our scottian and rogerian Readers will misinterpret my words. And so, in order to mitigate the risk of misunderstanding the clarklike worldview, I will now say to our scottian and rogerian Readers, “hey guys! there’s a video I’ll be putting up a little later in the day and it’s going to be about sickness and breasts!! so why don’t you stop back in around, oh, I don’t know….3:30 pm EST?” I will now continue our ‘conversation’ in comic sans (in case we get a scott or roger wandering in before the vid goes up).
clarks are afraid of nothing. clarks live in fear. this is not just a coy word trick. we know that we (clarks) are capable of anything that really needs to be done and even if, (hell, especially if), there is a threat to our own family or our friends, we simply are not afraid. find me a clark who learns that his friend needs something that entails personal risk to get, show me a clark confronting any threat to her children or family and I will show you a fearless person. not brave. not courageous. fearless. the clarklike mother will not be experiencing anything in the way of fear as she does whatever is necessary. the clarklike friend will not be thinking about repercussions, backlash or consequence. clarks, when confronting a threat to family or friends, will not be thinking cost/benefit, best strategy, limiting loss. they simply will act to protect.
clarks live in fear. a better, more useful way to express this is to say that, for a clark, fear is a factor, a consideration, in virtually every decision we make (exception above noted). this fear includes the usual: “...I won’t get good grades, I’ll stand out as being a brain, the other kids will laugh at me, she won’t say yes, he won’t accept no, they’ll all look at me and talk, the job will be too much, the illness will lead to more, no one will care, everyone will know.”
…. hey, It just dawned on me… I’m talking like it was 2010. I still often forget how well you Readers grasp the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine. so, what say I wrap it up with a bullet point thing. the thing about fear and clarks and such? why are we like this? totally worldview appropriate, we are subject to being fearful because we ‘know’ that:
- we might be discovered trying to pass as a real person,
- we are at risk of being identified as an Outsider…the one who doesn’t belong
- we did something that made us Outsiders
Alright…let me get that video up. (it’s my attempt to tell the story of the scottian Doctorette… I really hope it comes out good. yeah, I just got that inference, lol…. for clarks? ‘hope is an admission to the inevitability of fear’.)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FRIDAY UPDATE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m just writing this to provide cover for Friend of the Doctrine Katia who is, in the best spirit of playing by the Rules while-not-waiting-forever the day to start at the BB&G I will return to this section to do today’s News and Announcements. Aiight?
damn! that took a long time!
About clarkscottroger
This is actually one of the most insightful things I have ever read that you have written as yet,
It is a lovely explanation of philosophy and reality. It is something I can relate to very very well. Great work, clark!
Everyone who thinks he or she is not “brave”, everyone who walks side by side with fear as his or her copilot ( or flies, rather–or oh you know what I mean!!! ) should read this, and understand.
jehnay
thank you Jean
err.. I sometimes forget that that people subscribe to the Doctrine Posts (yeah, I know! don’t tell zoe…she’ll remind me of how much I am not keeping up with the Readers)…but… I just finished editing and though there is no significant change to the Post, hopefully it reads better.
…. as to insightful? cool (remember the thing we say about the Doctrine being fun and even outrageous? keep that in mind if I actually put the video up)
it’ll all make a certain sense
so as a Scott, other than my great eyes and tits ( you didn’t have to tell ME) and the slightly outre way I dress (again, I already KNOW), the reason I am a good reviewer and get free stuff to review is not because I am looking for approbation, but because I know that I can explain to my readers exactly the reasons they might want to consider getting whatever it is I am reviewing–or, occasionally, why they should not want to get it. I am able to communicate this with others because I have confidence that I know what I am talking about? Or is it because I am good at teaching and at seeing what people need to grasp when I am trying to explain myself? Or is it something else? thanks! Always good to see the hat.
People getting offended by MEN AND TITS? How ridiculous. It is just nature. jentaheiapdjdy
Jenay
thank you… because you are good at teaching, of course. (there are good clarklike teachers and there are good rogerian teachers)…I’m willing to be you are (now) able to not only distinguish how these are different good teaching, but you could tell me how the clarklike teacher does better with a certain demographic than does the roger and the scott. and, no! it is not that some of the demographics would not like/respond to your style (or a clark or a roger) rather some of the demographics would respond more to the quality of one (over the other two). This is a great question: the issue of how something manifests in the each worldview is very crucial to getting the most out of our little personality theory. As I tried to illustrate today, and using your example (of teaching, not tits)… Teaching manifests differently and appropriately to each of the three worldviews. I stress this because it to necessary that we keep in mind that the Wakefield Doctrine is talking about reality… not someone deciding to things a certain way, not a trait or anything acquired. It is the nature of the personal reality. and, as you think that through, it is very simply back to one of our most basic instructions to people first learning the Doctrine, “observe and infer how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them”…. an awful lot of human activity is relationship….hell more that is not.
glad you enjoyed the Post and vid
YES i DID. I want you to know I cannot explain this to my friends. You are better than I am at explaining your doctrine. I do tell them about it however, and I do use your theory to understand them better. It works. I do not use it to get stuff, I just use it to understand. Most of my friends are clarks, And yeah, my husband is a clark even though for a second I thought he was a scott but he isn’t.
Sickness and breasts? I hope not both at once! That could be catastrophic.
But yeah. I like this. A lot. It makes sense (as ever it does) and I enjoyed reading it.
Sometimes around here, it feels like my brain’s come home…if that makes any sense :)
So glad I found you and your ol Doctrine, whenever-it-was so long ago.
Now about that vid…
Lizzi
I am glad you happened by, as well.
…about the vid. (I accept that it is way past the point of forgetting about it)… but, as you know, almost everything that the Doctrine lets us see is (potentially) useful/valuable/educational or….fun.
so I get the vid up this after local time.
Well, I have no idea if I am a Clark or not, but I did understand this and found it interesting. A friend of mine was once told by someone that she was the bravest person he knew – she felt fearful about just about everything, and yet she still did things.
I’m inclined to think that, in varying degrees, most people experience fear every day, though it’s sometimes so subtle that it’s not obvious. It’s so rooted in our language even that it can go unnoticed eg: “I’m dreading that meeting,” or “I’m worried about the state of the economy,” or even, “I can’t decide what to eat,” – as you point out fear of making the wrong decision is very common! :)
I have read that any time we don’t respond from love we react from fear – makes sense to me.
Yvonne
very cool. I agree with you on the observation that “most people experience fear every day,” and I agree with your subsequent point that fear is, in fact, inherent in most lives. The Doctrine has an interesting perspective thing (that I alluded to in today’s Post) that can be a source of further insight into (how) every day ‘normal’ fear is experienced. Our ‘Rule’ that ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’ lets us look at a seemingly uniform experience* of fear and cast it in a different light, another context, which offers the opportunity to tell us about the nature of fear. In the scottian worldview, the individual experiences fear more in keeping with the assessment/fight/flight context that is common to predators, whereas, clarks, by virtue of being in the (personal) reality of the Outsider and therefore given to intellectualizing the ‘event’ will apprehend the fear much differently.
Fun topic.
as to being a clark? one handy approach is: I often wakeup in the morning and think to myself, “well, another day… I’m still here and the world’s still out there” 2 out of 3 personality types find that statement non-sensical and pointless on a very fundamental level.
..also we have the Pre-dominant Worldview Assessment Test… that can be helpful!
* meaning the fear, not an individual’s effort to cope (with the fear)
So. …saw a coupla takes…gonna stick w 11?
no!
…(I can’t believe how many times this took), here it the last and final cut of the ‘scottian Physician’s Assistant and the clark‘
hahahahaha
I have to admit I dont get the eye thing….could ya please explain it one more time?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
sometimes referred to as the ‘gaze of the scott’ there is a very distinctive focus of attention that can be seen in the eyes of the scott. check the photo of the progenitors (a couple of posts ago, it is a higher rez version) not just to see scott’s eyes, but also the ‘look’ of the clark (‘hello!! you still with us, clark?’) and the roger (“er..make yourself at home, I hope everything meets with your approval).
Find a photo of any scott (Joe Pecsi and Jack Nicholson are good examples for us older folks…)
it comes down to an inherent …’alertness’ (remember the behavioral metaphor: predator… lionesses are often photographed with eyes closed asleep in the savannah… but they are never seen not paying attention to their surroundings…
when you look at the photo of the three of you….its pretty evident what you’re talking about! Thanks
I am a mixed up kid with my two, both equally strong at times! So its a funny blend of fear and confidence, indeed.
that’s funny michelle because I often feel like mine are pretty equal as well. Its nice to hear someone else is just as screwed up as me. Although I doubt that could actually be you!