Hello.  Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).  This blog is about presenting and discussing, discovering and applying the principles that comprise this little “theory” of personality.  Based only, totally and entirely on anecdotal evidence and (constant) observation, the Wakefield Doctrine is proving itself to be a unique and fun and (actually) quite effective way to view the behavior of the other people in our lives.  With the perspective provided by the Doctrine, why the people act the way that they do finally begins to make sense.  What a relief!  It isn’t that you were not capable of understanding them, it was never your lack of intelligence in being able to apply “proven” theories of personality and most of all, it has not been your fault for how your loved ones have acted towards to you.

You just needed the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine.  You just needed to know that personality is not hard-wired into people, causing them to act certain ways.  You just needed to see that everyone experiences the world in one of three, slightly different ways.  You only needed to be able to understand and see the world from the bias/premise/reality of the other person and how they acted made perfect sense.

With the Wakefield Doctrine you can: recognise the three types of people; by recognising them you can appreciate the world that they are experiencing and not be caught off-guard or otherwise be surprised by their behavior.

Hey, it’s got it all.

But first we should address one of our DownSprings concerns that appears in the Comment to the last Post.
glenn writes: A)  Who the fuck is Speedy West? (Should I apologize for “crudeness”?) and he goes on to write:
                           B)   Studley still in the house. Cheerio Stud fella. Please verify this for me–you being British and all. The origin of the word soccer….The word is derived from the British penchant for shortening longer words and re-arranging them. There used to be a Football Association–or something like that–in Merry Olde. The brits took the 2nd syllable of the word association and stretched it to form the word soccer. You Brits are always fucking around like that. One of the things I like about you Limey bastards. So, tell me Studley…Is it true? Talk to me Studley. The doctrine cries out for international input. Say something here. Are you guys still mad about The War of 1812?

As primary author and moderator of this here blog here (and with thanks to the author of the Screenplay of Pulp Fiction), “Allow me to retort”

glenn is a scott, hence the penchant for “shocking” language.  If I had the time, we could go on for pages about why that is and what he gets from saying ‘fuck’ a lot, but I want to save that for a time when I am even more bereft of ideas than I am at this moment*.  The shortest explanation is provided by the tee shirt that will soon be available here at the Doctrine Fashion Center, it will say: “scott!!!: I scream, therefore I am“. (Damn, how totally true is this Doctrine !) That should clear up Point A, now for Point 2
glenn appears to be trying to draw out and engage one of the Readers of the Doctrine. (As can be seen on the home page, there is a ‘widget’ that indicates the geographical location of visitors to the Doctrine). Studley, United Kingdom is a regular Reader of the Wakefield Doctrine, we know that much but nothing else.  As a scott, glenn is offering the appearance of knowing about the background of Studley, UK as part of his effort to draw them into a conversation.  He (glenn) has done a little  research into the etymology of the word soccer in the hopes of convincing ‘Studley’ that his intentions are totally benign, but he is, of course, a scott.  Benign is not the correct word.  It is not that scotts are in any ways negative, bad, whatever, it is simply that they are acquisitory.

(We interrupt this exposition to bring you the mandatory Lesson in the Wakefield Doctrine found in every Post.  We’ll make it short).  scotts: live in a reality of predator/prey.  They are always and constantly testing their environments for threats and for a food supply.  In social terms, they are very gregarious and they are very aggressive, they will approach everyone they encounter with the sole/initial purpose of establishing dominance/submission.  At a party, the scottian male is the center of attention and will have an endless supply of jokes to tell (each joke told to a group is increasingly offensive, the better to maintain dominance).  The scottian female, is also very aggressive, consistent with cultural norms, (sort of).  She will be followed by, surrounded by rogers. rogers loves they scottian females and will do anything for them.

(OK, done.  Back to our little glenn).  So glenn is trying to draw out Studly, UK but to no avail.  We have nothing back from them and that is just fine with the author.  The rate of Comments from a given number of Readers is very low across the board.  We have patience.
Anyway, have you ever played with a puppy?  You make the hand-gestures, like a small animal approaching and retreating.  The dog loves that!  They will advance and retreat themselves playing a hunting game (in this case with your hand), however if you make too sudden a motion, they will begin to bark, no longer so sure that this is a game with a lesser animal.  Back and forth, predator and prey.  If you do not get the point by now, then maybe the Crocheting with Emily blog would be a bit more appropriate.

So.  That should serve for today’s Post.
I want to thank Studley, United Kingdom and DownSpring glenn for providing us with a topic, a subject, a premise, whatever the hell you call it when you write about something as a starting point to go into another subject.

Oh yeah, Speedy West.  (You know I get kind of pissed off at times…well a lot of times….now that I think of it…all the time when I read something that forces me to see the shortcomings of my own type.  And, given my own type, what forces me to see is not what I am, but what others are not.  My type always looks to others for the good things and as an example of what we are not, but the thing about glenn…a scott and scotts are fairly intelligent…and has an interest in music and does not know who Speedy West is…and he should, but (here is where my type gets mad at our selves) he doesn’t and apparently sees no need to find out what he doesn’t know…he is quite comfortable not knowing…because he is a scott…and my type is not.  So since this Doctrine is also about learning to be “better” people, I must learn from this and set an example to all Readers…so I do take the lesson from glenn and so my penultimate response to his Comment is:

Fuck you…

And since I enjoyed that so much here’s another one (without the live video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M_XES449-M