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

 

In November 1919, shortly after Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was confirmed by observations made from the island of Principe during an eclipse (light was shown to have been bent by gravity as Einstein had predicted), Sir Arthur Eddington, an early advocate of relativity, was approached by Ludwig Silberstein at a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society.

“Professor Eddington,” Silberstein declared, “you must be one of three persons in the world who understands general relativity.” When Eddington demurred, Silberstein continued: “Don’t be modest, Eddington.”

“On the contrary,” Eddington replied. “I am trying to think who the third person is!” 
(courtesy of  www.anecdotage.com )

The genius of the the Wakefield Doctrine is simply that it proves, validates, backs up it’s own damn self. 

There are three ways of seeing the world and all of us are capable of seeing the world as a clark or a scott or a roger. We have (all) decided that we like the world a certain way, the world of a clark or the world that a  scott lives in or the kind of world that rogers are at home in.
Though it has been a long time since we have made the choice (deliberately or otherwise) of how to live our lives, we never, ever lose the part of ourselves that can make the world be seemingly different.
There is no giving up the capacity to see the world as the other two types do, only a choice to forget.

That is the strength of the Wakefield Doctrine, it is not the world that changes for us and it is not us that changes for the world, it is a part of us that would live our lives as a clark or as a scott or as a roger.

Well that pretty much says it all…