Clarks

The Wakefield Doctrine is based on the premise that behavior is a response to perception. Within individuals, these behaviors tend to repeat themselves over time, and with repetition become a defining and characteristic type of behavior, in other words, personality.

The Wakefield Doctrine proposes to describe personality on the basis of perception rather than the behavior that results (from perception).

The three characteristic ways to perceive the world are identified as: clarks, scotts and rogers. It is a given that we all start our lives with the potential to perceive the world as any of the three. However at some point in our early, early childhood we become predominantly a clark, a scott or a roger. Our ‘preferred bias’ in how we percieve the world at large becomes established.

We become clarks, scotts or rogers.

…clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel…

clarks.

The ‘premise of identity’ for a clark is that of outcast, different from those around, separate and apart from everyone (and everything). There is a (self-awareness) of being intellectually capable, perhaps even superior.

The ‘perceptual bias’ of clarks is that the world is an indifferent, probably hostile environment, filled with strangers who appear to enjoy the company of others. To a clark, the world is a minefield, but clarks can see no other way to navigate through life. They think that their only hope is to learn and think and try to anticipate the thoughts and actions of those she encounters.

To a clark, information/knowledge is the thing of highest value in the world. This belief is the flaw from which all in the behavior (of a clark) flows. “If I know everything I can understand why I feel different. If I understand why I feel different, I can change and then not feel different. Then I can be like other people”.

Being an ‘other’, clarks are driven by the need to understand. With their ‘premise of identity’centered in the intellectual, this need to acquire knowledge is paramount. At a certain point this drive for value in the factual supplants, replaces and substitutes for the emotional side of the personality. The end result/purpose of acquiring this knowledge is not to identify with the world but to recognise their place in it.

For a clark knowledge (and it’s idiot-bastard son, information) is the thing of greatest value.

By definition, clarks are the ones that think up shit, like this clark, scott, roger thing. All because clarks think that there is an answer, there is information to be found/understood/discovered that will make sense of the world as they see it.

Clarks believe that if we think enough we will understand why we are not a part of the world and can then become a part of the world, no longer different.

If you are still reading this, two things are most likely true: you are a clark and you have already devised a system (like this or better) to do this thing.

(from downspring #1)

clarks are crazy, scotts are stupid and rogers are dumb.

clarks ask, rogers demand (and stomp their feet) and scotts….what was the question.

If you want to rent a tear in the space-time continuum the size of Australia, throw a party. And invite only clarks. You will have the utmost in musical selections, the tastiest of morsels (to eat) and beverages until you fall over. Ok, so they know how to set a table. But why do they always insist on using spoons….

But you said whatever I might have will “translate perfectly”. Makes sense to me….

If you are still reading this thing, there is a good chance you are a clark. To make that assumption certain, the only question I must ask is:

‘how close is this (clark scott roger) thing to the system you have already created for yourself?’

If you are a clark, you have by now come up with some (mental) construct to manipulate the knowledge that you have been acquiring since before you can remember; be it based on astrology or religion, philosophy or mythology, you have a system.

Try this one.

I would not presume to compare clarkscottroger to what you have already. But I will say, “here is what you would have wanted to have done yourself, to put your system out in the world in the hope of getting someone to contribute the missing pieces.”

Since the (final format) has not put in an appearance yet, lets get all Readers Digest on this thing.

clarks live inside their own heads because it’s all much better in there
clarks are the only (one of the three) to sincerely entertain the idea that it would be better to be someone else
clarks read a lot and to say that clarks daydream a lot is to totally go redundant
clarks work very hard at whatever they do but since we are bored very easily, do not do well at repetitive tasks
clarks are the creative one(s) of the three
clarks share, to a fault
clarks believe that if they work hard and help others unselfishly at some point they will no longer be different
‘knowledge is power’ is a keystone concept to clarks