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

It’s soon to be Summer, so lets have a re-run! An encore performance from that other place, the infamous Hub Pages*

FAQ Doctrine-style
In a field of literally thousands of theories of personality, both “legitimate, accepted and established theories” and the “Hey, like when we were in college, like we used to sit around and talk about how…” varieties, why should we give your Wakefield Doctrine more than a quick scan and then onwards searching the ‘net to pass the time?

Because, idiot,  the Wakefield Doctrine will provide you with a template, a way of organising the impressions you have of the behavior of other people (and of your own behavior). This ‘template’ will allow you to see the behavior of the people in your life in such a way that why they act the way they do will make sense. And that is what all this theories of personality crap is about, isn’t it? Making sense of people. So lets let you ask your frickin  questions!

Q: OK. It would help to have a way to ‘interpret’ the behavior of others. Will this involve a lot of time and study and research? cause I’m on my break here and don’t want to waste a lot of time!

A: No, no it will not require a lot of time. All that this personality thingie really requires is that you have a certain level of flexible intelligence, which is our neologism for what the novelists refer to as ” a willing suspension of disbelief”. None of this is rocket science, as a matter of damn fact, it is our belief that personality theories should be anything but, rocket science. The Wakefield Doctrine offers you a simple perspective, a certain way of looking at human behavior that allows you to connect disparate elements of ordinary behavior in such a way that new understanding is the result!

Q: Quite the promise. OK, what do we have to do that requires disbelief suspenders?

A: Just one thing, imagine that we all create the world that we live in …

Q: oh, we’re sorry! you want the ‘mystico-magical-my-cat-tells-me-secrets’ category, lol look for the icons with the conical, aluminum hats…

A: Now, stop that scott! (this reference will make sense later), that is not what we mean by creating the world. Nothing so dramatic, simply the fact that what you perceive today, I can never know for certain. I don’t mean the big things, like the world is round or the sky is blue or what goes up must come down or night follows day. We are still talking the every day, common sense world we all share, all we are saying is that the world that you interact with today has a subjective element to it.
Everyone has heard the story/allegory/joke about the 2 explorers who, on different safaris met a man in the jungle who told one of them, “That path leads to a village of fierce warriors, suspicious people ” (and the other is told) “That path leads to a village of the kindest, friendliest people in the land “.
The punchline to the story is, of course, upon comparing notes, both explorers met the same man and went to the same village, but had totally different experiences. That is what we mean when we talk about creating the world…

Q: oh, alright…go on…we can imagine the everyone creates the world

A: Well, the very simple premise of the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers ) is that the perspective one has of the world (and your relationship to it) accounts for everything… personality-type-wise . The Doctrine does not list traits or behaviors or attitudes or any of that stuff to ‘identify’ personality types. We simply say:
scotts are the ones who wake up in a world of predator and prey (they are the predators)
rogers are the people who wake up in a world of the massive herd
clarks are the ones who wake up alone

Everything follows from this. What is really kind of cool is that, if you accept this premise of a worldview determining behavior (rather than the other way around), all sorts of things fall into place!

Q: Like what? that these scotts are mean and aggressive people and the clarks are weird?

A:NO! (lol) Slow down! That was the initial premise, there is one more key element to this thing. We are all born with the potential to view the world as a clark , a scott or a roger . And we never lose the potential to see the world these three ways, but at one point early in our lives (2-5yo) we become predominately one of the three. The world we go into from that point on is the world of a clark, scott or roger. The reason we can recognise the other two types is because of having that potential (at least those of us who have sufficiently flexible intelligence).

Q: So there are all these predators and cattle-like people…

A: Cut it out. You are reading this Post because you have too much intelligence, too much curiosity! You are not dumb or you would not have made it this far. All the Wakefield Doctrine is saying is, if you are in a world of predator and prey and you find yourself in a social situation your goals and drives are going to be markedly different from the person, in that same situation, who is perceiving the world from a member-of-a-giant-herd framework. Wouldn’t you?

Q: So tell us…

A: Sorry folks, out of time for now. This little FAQ hub should answer some of your questions. Will try to pick up this in a few days. In the meantime, for you really curious readers (….clark I know you are reading this) search Wakefield Doctrine and we will be there. And we gots music videos and have hats (for your damn heads) and ever thing

Now, that was entertain’ non? Given our nostalgia vibe lets go into the youtube and get ourselfs some old-time music. You young people? too bad, too sad…grow old, yos.

Oh! Oh! before I forget…special feature comin in the Fall…the Doctrine Takes on the Delta!! (thats Missisippe Delta, y’all) Long an admirer of the music from that part of the country and (being a former guitar player) we plan to claim both Rosedale and Clarksdale, by Right of Hat!  (Figure if nothin else, maybe a trip to dem crossroads might git this Doctrine goin… stay tuned!)

* motto: ‘you create value so that we don’t have to…and we want our cut!’