Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
Video Friday is here already! Neither rain nor sleet, not rogerian…er wait a minute that’s the Post Office*
This week’s video is a little bit on the short side, in terms of running time. However, we do manage to touch briefly on the topic: How the three personality types (of the Wakefield Doctrine) respond to emergencies?**
Not surprisingly, it seems that each of the three types have their own strengths that are offset by a weakness that is so typical of their kind.
- clarks: very creative and are able to extrapolate probable outcomes to their options…if they happen to be paying attention as the water level rises
- scotts: very quick response, immediately going into action to deal with the threat appearing…when they are not jumping up and down trying to shout louder that the sound of the crashing waves
- rogers: very organised, create plans for recreating and maintaining living conditions…when they are not huddled in the corner of the gymnasium of the local school simply because that is the designated emergency shelter
Consistent with the Doctrine is the simple fact that we all have within us the qualities, strengths and weaknesses of all three of these personalities. Equally consistent (with the Doctrine) is that, for most of us, our first reaction is in keeping with our pre-dominant personality. clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.
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Look for the Posts that appear here at the Doctrine to become increasingly ‘practical application orientated’ in the coming months. We believe that you are ‘getting’ the basic concept of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, so the next step is showing you how to apply this unique and fun ‘way to look at the world’. For example, you have a new teacher and it is a class that you have seriously gots to get an A at the end of the semester. How does the Wakefield Doctrine help you get that A? Or… you are new in college and have roommates that are totally in need of attitude adjustification…what are the secret methods, known only to Followers of the Wakefield Doctrine, that will turn that dorm-dwelling-hyena into a little pussycat that will do everything you say and not, not even once bring back to your too little (even astronauts in the Space Station have a bigger sense of privacy) room anything in the form of a girlfriend/boyfriend to party, while you are trying so hard to behave and get the good marks.
All that and how to be happy with your parental units, if you happen to still so be living at home.
Coming this weekend: the hat Marches ON!!! North America? you are now merely one of 8 Continents with Doctrine hats on your native people’s heads! Claire is in the house, and it is permissable, that she keep her hat on her (damn) head, indoors or outdoors! More to come in the Post on Sunday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o-u4IwXkbE* is there any workplace that is more rogerian than the Post Office?
** In this context, the word ’emergencies’ meant to include Acts of God, Natural Disasters, scottian impetuousness and rogerian miscalculation or clarklike …clarklike…’hey! clark thats only true inside your head!! you can not, I repeat! You cannot out-think the laws of physics!
About clarkscottroger
“clarks and natural disasters”. Are clarks a manifestation of “natural disasters”? lol
Clarks were the ones preparing for Y2K, two and tree years ahead of time… Studying, gathering, reorganizing their lives, in case of catastrophe!
Y2K. Makes me think of 2 of my friends. One a scott, one a roger. The scott did nothing in particular about the now uneventful Y2K. If it wasn’t happening at that very moment, well it did “not exist”. Can’t be concerned with events that are of the future.
My rogerian friend? Whoah Nelly! Now that’s another story. Was it coincidence that she decided to move her family from very populated South Florida to po-dunk, interior north Florida prior to Y2K? (No). She had regulation gas masks, seeds from which to grow her own food (yah- uh, it could happen)….supplies to last her years. You get the picture.
Yours truly contemplated the probabilities of various disaster scenarios and decided to prepare in a conservatively mature, undramatic fashion. The most interesting aspect of all that was how my rogerian friend was an endless fountain of information about Y2K, the potential life altering consequences, the best ways to prepare for disasters, aspects/facts on survivalism. Man, she almost had me going. Almost had me in a panic (do clarks ever really panic?).
clarks have the ability to distance themselves from the emotional aspect of an event in order to be in a position to make the best decision(s), handle potential secondary issues, etc. Wow….was just thinking….what if we replaced all of the rogerian TV news people with clarks. Huh.
Molly M.? What if we clarks simply stopped the studying and gathering and reorganization of our lives? Can we even do that?!
…on the issue of the (clearly rogerian) news shouters… as close as a clark will get to advocacy ( what??! are you fuckin delusional?…clarks are nothing if not about advocacy…goddamn! jeez.)*
But…is the most recent storm has not made it clear as an azure lake in deepest summer…you all should top exposing yourselves*** to the deliberate efforts of parts of our culture to get you all cranked up, stress and worry-wise, that is.
Stop: reading the newspapers, watching TV, listening to others share about the bad things that are happening. Just stop. It won’t be easy, but it is possible. And the world will go on without you and your own individual life will not suffer for the lack of being wired into the stress circuits that comprises most of our present culture
*yeah, I guess I am right…we do loves our advocacy…only problem with frickin clarks is that we somehow (and consistantly) put the well-being of others before our own….so clarks…they do be advocatin…jes not for ourselfs…**
**Doctrine and associated peoples excluded
***huh, huh he said ‘expose yourself’****
****thanks to our scottian aspect for that last
I have ceased, off and on, the watching/reading of “the news” and it is a true thing. The stress relating to the “knowing” of the news is removed. (hey! free time!)
Of course, now there is nothing to talk about with my rogerian friends!!
…well, that kind of tells you a lot, too…
Like being on the wagon (for anyother indulgence, alcohol, drugs, sex, serenity) it is only by abstaining then indulging then abstaining (again) do you begin to get a sense of the true cost…
Another interesting effect: there is no stopping others from getting wound up in the stress cycle, but once you have it out of your system, what they talk about will sound really nonsensical….and like the un-reformed alcoholic, they will try to get you back into to it…”but you have to know about the news!!! well, the weather has an effect on you directly!! you have to stay in touch with that!!! ( no, no you do not)
My dad (a clark) use to watch the highlights of football games before heading to evening church, so that he could talk with people! Me? I just scan the headlines so I have some clue of what is going on, but I find Facebook a better place to keep up with what people are really thinking about.
Stop the studying, gathering and reorganization of our lives? I don’t think so! That would be so, um… boring, and normal. And doesn’t stopping imply that one is dead? I think there is a reason my father owns over 2000 how-to books and helps to run several how-to boards online. How-to books also make up the greater part of my library, and I google everything…
BTW, why not have your own seeds, gas masks and bomb shelter in the back yard? Isn’t that only… practical? Plus, multiple escape routes planned out, depending on the emergency and the time of year…
good (and challeging question…as we have come to expect :} )… the ‘answer’ is beyond my writing skills to express in Comment form….mostly it has to do with exposing myself to the influence and triggers, stresses and stimuli of others, as opposed to identifying what it is I need to do for myself/mylife/my frame-of-reference and doing that instead…
Clearly no one would advocate stopping studying and gathering and reorganization… but there is a surprisingly difficult task in (first) defining where your reality exists and (the rest of the world)’s begins…no such an easy question. In fact, I will go so far to say (this is my personal belief, not a tenet of the Wakefield Doctrine) that I am responsible for everything that I encounter every single day that I wake up…and (what the hell) I will also say that, by one definition (one that, not surprisingly will take a lot of space to outline), the world I live in and the world that you live in is a perfect world….*
It is just that I do not see the world, as portrayed by the newspapers and the TV and the experts as having anything like the finality that they would like to think it has…. or something like….to be continued….
*there is a catch, of course, and it lies in the definition of the word ‘perfect’, but then by now you know how much we like to take average words and use them however we please lol