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

Boy, for a minute there I was afraid I’d forgotten the angle that I was going to take for this Post!* Fortunately, given that we are following ‘E’ (the everything Rule), we can use the word ‘fear’ to illustrate 2 things:

1. how fear plays a critical role in the (experience) of the worldview of the Outsider/clark
2. as an example of how ‘the everything Rule’ is not limited to jobs and hobbies or secret passions
3. and possibly allow us to highlight the similarities shared by the three worldviews and, by doing that, suggest an approach to self-improving ourselves.

…to clarks. My first thought, when the ‘f word’ occurred to me, was ‘fear is an emotion that permeates the life of a clarks‘. My second thought was to remember an old saying, ‘clarks live in fear and yet are the most un-afraid of the three personality types‘.  The following 2-part block quote is divided into: a) you’re a clark…  and 2) you know a clark, have a child or a parent (sometimes a very similar experience) who is a clark and you’d enjoy nothing more than to gain insight into this fear thing, the better to help them over-come the things that they seem to be fearful of, afraid of.

2) first. watch a clark experiencing fear. good luck, with that. It will not show, unless the fear-inducing source is shared by others and then (a) clark will focus on the fear of the other’s rather than their own fear. they will talk about it, joke about and generally try to come up with reasons and information that should let the others (who are feeling fear) feel less afraid. and they are sincere in this effort to help others.  Now, when a clark experiences fear that no one else appears to feel, they will get quiet and distractionary. they are fearful of appearing afraid, for (fear) of either losing what little positive regard they might allow other to hold for them or (worse) stand out among their peers as being fearful, which in turn invites scrutiny… never a sought after goal

a) the most basic source of fear for clarks is:   discovery.

3) the everything Rule!  everyone experiences fear at one time or another. How this incredibly fundamental emotion manifests in the three worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine is not only instructive of the worldview, but useful in self-improving oneself

• clarks: fear is a threat. fear is not the problem, the thing that we suspect is behind the (source) of the fear is.  and, more than the other two, fear is totally personal.  When a loved one/friend of a clark expresses fear, the clark will do anything to help….fearlessly. most fear (for clarks) is the threat of scrutiny and (implied) the exposure as being the Outsider, to the people in their lives (that they delude themselves into believing don’t already know)
• scotts: fear, while not fun… per se, is accepted by scotts as part of the deal (of life). When fear comes about as an aspect of a deliberate act (performing, or taking deliberate risks for a gain), scotts experience fear as relish… a part of life.  When fear is not a result of a deliberate act, then scotts will exhibit the classic ‘fight or flight’ response. (I remember when Ola was alive and we had to go to the vet, like many dogs, she was not a big fan of these necessary visits. The thing was, when we arrived and got out of the car, Ola would try to get me to walk off into the woods (that surrounded Dr Bowen’s office), naturally I would not let her. As soon as Ola recognized that there was no getting around it, she would start pulling me towards the door into the office. That is a scottian response to fear.
• rogers: fear is the reward and the punishment for right living. (that’s all I’m going to say. I have too much respect for the incredibly alien world that is the rogerian worldview (at least from the perspective of a clark).
  Here’s an example, courtesy of the progenitor roger (though, by definition, he will deny making this statement):

  A very, very long time ago, we were all hanging out together and I noticed that roger seemed bothered by something,  so I asked what was wrong. He did not answer directly, nevertheless, I learned that he had a major dental appointment coming up. OK, I could relate to that** so I engaged him in conversation and the way roger expressed the manifestation of his fear (of this dentist visit) was that he was concerned that, ‘he knew how to die right’.  Not that the procedure was particularly life-threatening, but, it would involve the use of anesthesia, so naturally one thought of (the possibility) of dying.  But it was the words that he used, ‘(that it was) important to know that he knew how to die right‘  that gives us a very telling insight into the rogerian worldview.

That’s all the time we have today!

* yeah, ha ha

** a really awful clark story… I’ll tell you sometime