Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) What we have heah is a fun, pro-ductive an u-neek way ta look at thems what are already in ah lives. Ya know that we mean ever-one thats aroun you…work folks and friens and even kin! They all actin this ways,  that a ways and such, ya amost never know what they might be up to. Well this here Doctrine here, it’ll let ya see through ’em faster n a scott at the Evelyn Woods Readin Comprehenshun Course.

Thank you for visiting. The Wakefield Doctrine is more serious and useful than the Post Title and opening paragraph may imply, but sometimes the process of writing these Posts requires a side trip or two. What makes today’s Post “interesting” is not the strained effort at a regional dialect, but rather the quote from the Wizard of  Oz.
It started yesterday morning, when the Bert Lahr line , “now if I were the king of the forest, not prince, not duke, not earrll…” from the movie popped into my head. For a variety of reasons I did not write a Post yesterday, but I thought,  “that’s alright I’ll save that until Tuesday’s Post”, figuring if it stayed in my head that long, I would use it as sort of a platform to launch the Post (from). Come this morning, looking up the line and it turns out to be: “…not Queen, not duke not prince…”  Damn, mis-remembered it!  Then, to add insult to injury, I get this pidgin dialect in my head as I try to do a standard, ‘Welcome to the Doctrine…” opening!

Well, I (still) welcome (you) to the Wakefield Doctrine! Regular Readers will notice a number of changes going on in the format of the blog and other signs of activity. It’s all part of the 90 Day Challenge, which is the Readership Drive that started a week or two ago. Some of the more noticeable changes are the result of suggestions of ‘Our Consultant’, Miz ‘Becca (Rebecca Giles over at Web Savvy Marketing). Brought in to help us tune up this thing from a search engine point of view, she is hard at work trying to help our Doctrine become the biggest visitor-count website, this side of the Philippines. Even though I am still jonesing for my beloved ellipsiseses… the early consensus is, “yeah, you go Consultant”! All the DownSprings have been hard at work as well. Story-lines for the coming months (that would be Progenitor roger and DS#1) and surveys/questionnaires  hopefully  from Joanne and of course, Ms. AKH has been especially busy on researching ways for us to ‘get legit’.  Every bit the scottian female,  AKH has taken the 90 Day Challenge very much to heart. Say what you will about scotts, but when they decide that something needs to be done, they all over that thing. Somehow since Sunday, she has found herself a seo guy (hey Doug, welcome to the Doctrine,“read it and sleep”…), started something in Wikipedia and has two or three other lines of inquiry going…not bad, not bad at all!
We’re still waiting for glenn to get back from “Inappropriate Comment Rehab Camp” (motto: ‘fuck everyone!’) and we will see if we can’t survive until Thanksgiving.

Does that give us a Lesson of the Day? nah, not yet. I could get all Marxist (or Marist, for that matter) and talk about how, when you look at what each of the DownSprings and Progenitors have chosen as a way to save this thing of ours, they are reflecting the characteristics of their type. The clarks (DS#1) is utilising and channeling the ability of others (in this case trying to motivate Progenitor roger), the standalone rogers (Joanne) she would be finding hope in the form of a  mechanism that is quantifiable and measurable, i.e. a survey/questionaire that will tell the Visitor Reader which of the three they most likely are and the scotts who are all about action.

I could, go on at length about these comparisons and inferences and it might be a good idea, seo-wise. (You know, where I stick in words like personality type and relationships and clarksscottsroger so the google can find us and stick us at the top of the search results along with “Lindsay, We Hardly Knew Ye”, and “Secrets of the Housewifes of Delaware (“I told my Lover, Incorporate this!”) but I won’t. With so many new Readers coming in, lets just get all ABC with the Wakefield Doctrine.

The Wakefield Doctrine is built upon the idea that everyone experiences the world/reality differently, from one of three overlapping but distinctive perspectives. It also proposes that our personalities are but  a result of our perception, of our habitual responses to the world. The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that this characteristic perception of reality can be grouped into three distinct types, called for reasons stated elsewhere, clarks, scotts and rogers.

Born with the potential to view the world in one of these three ways, all people possess the characteristics of all (three) but soon (by age 7 or so) ‘become one of the three.  Put another way: we also possess the potential to see the world as aclark or a scott or a roger. It is only the predominance of qualities from one (over the other two) that makes us what we are. No one is only clarklike or scottian or rogerian.

The value of the Wakefield Doctrine is that once you can see the world ‘through the eyes’ of another, behavior becomes understandable. If a scott sees the world as a predator (would) then all action is predicated on interacting with the world as a predator. This is distinctly different from a roger, who seeing the world as a social being, predicates action and reaction on the basis of a world in which the intereactions of the herd is the dominant theme.

…hey Just found the Lesson of the Day!! Which of the three (Scarecrow, Tin Man Cowardly Lion) are which ( clark, scott or roger)? I was just downloading the clip of the Cowardly Lion and it seems that the movie would be a productive context to illustrate the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Provided you are old enough to be ready to collect frickin Social Security.

Maybe not to the level of  a “Win a hat (for your damn head) Contest”, but go ahead, send in your choice of which was who (and don’t forget the corroborating evidence, yo)