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

A lot of work to do, not enough time to do it all. Quick Overview for you New Readers and then, to work.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a way to look at the behavior of people. We call it a theory of personality, but it is not really…more of a ‘set of perspectives’, a guide to figuring out what (the other) person is experiencing and therefore what they are likely to do next. Here at the Doctrine we say, you live in the world of a clark, a scott or a roger. We have the potential to ‘be’ any of the three, but for reasons not yet clear we all settle on one way in early childhood. (One of the most common questions we get here is: “Sometimes it seems like I am such a roger, other times I get mad and act like a scott. I guess this Doctrine doesn’t include me” To which we answer, “Yes, yes it does….clark.”) The basic idea here is that everyone eventually starts to see the world a certain way, as a pack animal/predator or perhaps a herd-based social person or even a blue monkey.
What this blog was created to do is to spread the word of the Wakefield Doctrine to as many people as possible. And we are doing this simply because we have found that when we tell people about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, they really seem to get a kick out it. Everyone who starts to look around them always see the rogers first, the scotts second and finally the clarks. And they always get strong rogers mixed up with distracted scotts, at least in the first couple of trys. But once they see the clarks and the scotts and the rogers, they can never look at the people in their world the same. Ever.

Like we said. Its fun!  And way more ‘predictive’ than any homespun theory of personality has any right to be…I mean a deviation of error of < .7% , yo. (Just messin with you, we have not measured the accuracy of predictive element to the Doctrine…but maybe someday we’ll get all chi-squared on this thing of ours.) So there you have the basics. But like I said, a lot of work to do today.

Hey! Progenitors!  DownSprings!!  Look what I found!!

 

Male	Female	examples	dynamic	Cultural Sigil/movie/TV
clark	scott	Bob Newhart and (any co-star in any of his series)	High energy/high maintenance	The Bob Newhart Show(s)
clark	roger	Chris (on America’s Test Kitchen) and the less attractive of the two other cooks	Logical, informative a little boring
clark	clark	Woody Allen and Diane Keaton	Jeez do these two ever stop talking?	Annie Hall/
scott	clark
scott	roger	Joe Pesci and (any one of his cut-out placeholder wife co-stars in any movie)	(what woman co-star?)
scott	scott		Yeah? Well fuck you too!
roger	scott	Bill and Hilary Clinton	…just stay off of ‘em Blue Suede Shoes	War of the Roses
roger	clark
roger	roger	David Boreanaz/Emily Deschanel	Socially stable high energy	Bones

 

Yeah, I know! A damn chart!  ( …it’s meant to refer to something in our culture, not related to the Doctrine but still demonstrating characteristics…roger… ) ( …hey somebody go get glenn…there’s a DownSpring-shaped dust cloud in the seat at his computer at work!!…)

All we need to do is relax and let the blank spaces fill themselves in, I have total confidence that we can do this thing.

As you see, a lot of the spaces in the grid have something in them, but not all.  So what we need are suggestions so we can complete this grid and get on to the next one, which is the Female/Male grid  (hey! I had to start somewhere…the sooner we get this one filled in, the sooner we get the other one done.)

What!!? ( wtf….yeah you’re right….if we gonna be gender-neutral we gotta carry through on it…thanks a lot…DS#1… )

Here…from the “other axis”

 

Female	Male	examples	dynamic	Cultural Sigil
clark	scott	Uma Thurmann and David Carradine	Cut it out…	Kill Bill Part II
clark	roger	Kristin Stewart and that pretty guy in those Twilight movies	Now, what do you want	Twilight
clark	clark	Diane Keaton and Woody Allen	Sorry, didn’t mean…to interrupt	Annie Hall
scott	clark
scott	roger	Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise	…crawl you bastard crawl	Jeez haven’t sat through a T Cruise movie since Risky Business
scott	scott
roger	scott
roger	clark	Sculley and Muldar (DS#1)	isn’t it nice I let you admire me?	X Files
roger	roger	Kathy Bates and James Caan	Why don’t you let me make you miserable?	Misery

 

No time left… Ps and Ds? you guys know what to do…new Readers? not to worry is not always work…we have fun… sometimes

Mr. B!! those kids of yours still on vay-kay? Damn…let’s get us out with something up-beat.

( …hey! somebody stop glenn, he seems to be chewing his secretary’s ankle…listen to this ( visual cue: Moe! Larry! cheese!!)… )

Now… get to work, bitches