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

….speaking of scotts.  If you get on over to ‘The Facebook’  ( Facebook motto: ‘just like you remember high school, except the parts that are embarrassing to remember‘) you will find a new group,   ‘the First Annual, 2015 Bloghop World Championship SmackDown!’  and, by virtue of the fact that you’re my favorite Reader, we’ve saved one of the limited number of memberships…just for you. So get on over there and join up!  (no, I’ll wait)

thank you.  yes, there will be Tee shirts at some point… ok   here’s the deal.  you know how I’m always saying that the TToT bloghop (TToT bloghop motto: ‘you think a gratitude exercise doesn’t result in change?!?  one word: Lizzi Rogers‘)  is the best bloghop in the ‘sphere? Well I was thinking, if we’re so good, then the least we can do is go around and challenge other bloghops, (who, by the way, have been known to claim to be the best bloghop…), to a contest.  Well, thats the core idea. The details are in development, but, let me say…. ‘shirts with logos’!! (“sure, roger  you can can an exclusive limited edition one”)…. and they will be tee shirts (“…can a scott rip and tear parts of it to her liking? someone try to say no”) and you clarks?  you get to hang with an exceptional bunch of life forms.

Ok enough for now.  Remember to join up today!

…speaking of scotts   and  contests   and high school  (the scotts in gym class were never left standing, in that horribly exposed line of un-picked-for-either-team kids, waiting for someone to pick them, (even when each team already had enough kids to field a team)…hell, if they weren’t the ones doing the picking (that only happened when the teacher/coach assigned the captain of the 2 dodgeball teams… and 9 times out of 10 they would have been rogers) they would be the one to over-ride the captains choices and pick the clark standing in the middle (because scotts know that there is something…. about clarks  they’re not prey, not competition, certainly not a challenger for leadership of the pack… just something about clarks that appeals to scotts.)

So…brief review of our scottian friends

(from November 22, 2013)
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Break Time!!  Yeah, we know what you’re thinking,* “hey  enough of the heavy introspection, already!  we came here for a break from our daily routines, ya know? The Wakefield Doctrine advertises itself as being a personality theory that’s unique, useful and fun.  Lets see some that fun!”

Well, we all know that if it’s fun you’re after (and you’re not concerned with the price), there’s only one worldview to go to… the scottian worldview. scotts!!!  (‘Say it baritone and you can hear the police sirens wailing, say it contralto and you’ll surely be paying‘).

We all have a scottian friend. There’s currently a TV commercial for Las Vegas and is premised on that guy, the one we all knew growing up who always had to push it. To go a bit faster, to take a bit more of a risk than is absolutely necessary. juvenile detention facilities structure their business models on the young scottian males’ natural proclivity for anticipating consequences.

And….and! lets not forget that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral! ( ya gotta admit, in most cultures, the male is permitted a greater latitude in (their) choices of expression of drives and instincts and such, the scottian personality type is that of the predator and so they pretty high on the aggressiveness and impulsivity of action. if you are female, in most cultures, they will frown upon you going around arm wrestling, punching your subordinates on the shoulder and saying ‘fuck!’ a lot. fortunately for you (the scottian female) there are ….alternative forms of expression).

if you’re a clark you have always had a scottian friend, if you’re a roger you have never been able to avoid having a scottian friend and if you are a scott you’ve known of other scotts in your life.  you know them because as a scott:

• they must establish ‘ranking’ in any and every social environment… you will spot the scott because they will alway first ‘work the room’, going from person to person, small group to small group and push everyone on the shoulder (literally and/or figuratively), by doing this they will establish their place in rank
• they will command attention (or better, for the sake of the rogers) they will simply assume dominance
• in conversational style:  a clark will listen to you talk, a roger will let you talk…a scott will make you talk
• females will be identified as ‘tomboys’ early in life (‘from ages 5 to breasts’); with puberty, scottian females come into their own… (short form: most cultures do not permit the female members expressing aggressiveness physically)
• you will have a clarklike friend, who you will consider a friend because they  do not act like prey nor do they act like as another scott
• they will be total pushovers for a person who appreciates their mind ( in males it is best to admire their creativity… in females anything not involving their bodies will work  lol)
• in social conflicts, as in dog training, to feel fear is to admit defeat
• they are mercurial in temperament and loyal to friends and ferocious as adversaries

But they’re fun! It is easy to say, ‘hey of course we like scotts! they’re active and like to do things and are entertaining. whats not to like?’  True. But, this being the Wakefield Doctrine, we owe to ourselves to look a little deeper.

scotts are impulsive …and this appeals to us, albeit on an unconscious level, they live in the here and now!  (you remember the tale of the fiddle playing grasshopper?? tell me that, before you got to the ‘oh-so-correct-and-this-is-how-you-should-live-your-life’ sledge hammer ending…. tell me that you didn’t think of the grasshopper as the ‘good guy’! to varying degrees, we all would like to believe that, all we need do is throw off the cares and responsibility and life could be so much more….  and that’s true.

scotts are certain…  and this is why they are ‘natural leaders’… (the Doctrine saying is) ‘scotts are frequently wrong, never uncertain’.  people all too often equate certainty with wisdom

scotts represent what any of us would demonstrate as a ‘personality type’ if we found ourselves in the reality of the predator at a very early age and had to develop coping skills and strategies

scotts are attractive and aggravating, they are natural showmen/show-women, they see the audience as would a hungry lion a pack of gazelles  …

in the history of Man:  scotts are the conquerors, the explorers,  they are Alexander the Great (but not Julius Caesar) they are Genghis Khan (but not Charlemagne)  they are George Patton (but not Dwight Eisenhower)  scotts are cops but not firefighters….scotts are surgeons but not physicians … scotts are prima ballerinas but not Rockettes  …scotts are leaders but not Rulers

If you have made it this far…this is the link to the page on scotts

Hey want to see a scott in action?  watch this here video…everything you need to know about how to recognize a scott (there’s Robert DeNiro as the clark and some other guy as the roger).

* well duh!  this is the Wakefield Doctrine!