Welcome the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
We are on the move again, taking the Doctrine on the road! With hat (and damn head in hand) we are travelling this week and have our clarklike sights set on Dallas Texas* and the Mississippi Delta. This (first) Post will be of the ‘filler Post’ variety. Mostly consisting of observations of the people (and their personality types) that I encounter in locations like the waiting area in various ‘airplane places’. And with any luck, they will provide us with interesting and amusing illustration(s) of the the three personality types, in situ (or is that in vivo….in terruptus? in camera??).
OK, lets do this thing:
scotts: They are (the) natural tourists and travellers, driven by the instinct to find the new, fresh hunting grounds. With their trademarked confidence and certainty, scotts love to explore and provided they do not get totally lost, they become experienced travellers. They can be fun travelling companions, especially if you are interested in the local culture, as your travelling scott is drawn to the local people and customs like a dog in a butcher shop.
rogers: Our methodical friends do travel, but are not drawn to the idea of travel for the sake of exploring new locations. After all, rogers know the world as it should be and anything that does not match (their) description, kind of doesn’t matter so much. Having said that, the majority of the ‘tourism industry’ owes it’s very existence to rogers. Seeing how it is the rogerian tendency to ‘live by storyboard’, it is only natural that a form of travel and tourism should develop to meet the needs of those rogers with a sense of adventure. That’s why they invented the: guided-packaged-tours (lead by some local semi-celebrity) for the Trip of a Lifetime to places like: the Holy City, New York City, River City, New Jack City, the City of Tomorrow, or the Town that Time Forgot. rogers, will so buy souvenirs, postcards and other proof-of-being-there items. And photos!! They totally will have volumes of intricately catalogued and cross-references, tabbed-index and short synopsis at (the bottom of each) photos of every place they believe they have been to!
clarks: Now here’s a surprise, clarks will be the most skilled of travellers, at least among the small percentage (of clarks) that actually venture out of their: rooms, homes, apartments, familiar parts of their hometown, parents basements, friends living rooms. When required to travel to strange and exotic places, the innate flexibility/adaptability almost always allows the clark to become a skilled traveller.
Thats about it. (btw nothing helps develop your Doctrine skills like sitting in the front of the airplane as the rest of the passengers embark! you watch and you learn)
Also there is a video over at the Wakefield Doctrine (redux) that is from last Saturday’s Saturday Night Drive. Go watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k5ooaufrLM* Sorry, folks Dallas already claimed… by Right of Hat!
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Enjoy your travels!
Now you made me want to travel just for the sake of observing people boarding the airplane… that is sick – lol –
Have a wonderful time on the road;
Take care
Hey! Over here…see the ‘visitor from’ in the Live Traffic Feed? Grand Prairie TX…
Funny about this travel thing as it has been my experience with rogers that they enjoy immensely visiting historical landmarks. Not that those are not enjoyed by clarks and scotts but for rogers….it is different. rogers can stand upon a civil war battlefield for example, and imagine exactly what it must have been like then. rogers are able to recount stories of historical figures from times and places most of us barely remember learning about in history classes. Now that I think of it, when I have listened to a roger recount a story from the civil war I would almost swear he was there! It is not just the detail. There is something emotional about it. Stories. Yes, rogers are famous for stories.
@Molly “enjoy your travels”… thank you very much for the sentiment; but tell me, what is this “enjoy” that you speak of? (I did mention that I was a clark, no? lol *)
@Claire really, a plane is a perfect way to observe people to see if they are a clark, scott or roger…mostly because of the behavior constraints of modern travel, very few people ‘put on airs’.
In fact, I would submit that the (social) pressure of travelling by air (checkpoints and searches and no loud joking) tends to bring out the dominant type of a person ( clark, scott or roger)…
…so if you can sit in the front of the plane, everyone walks by you with their minds in focus, ‘get to seat, jam luggage in overhead sit down and be prepared to take orders that will involve life and death’…that will bring out the roger in rogers and the scotts in scotts (interesting with the scotts, it is (this) constraint that brings out their scottian nature, you know…when you see someone with a guide dog, “My! I can’t believe how well behaved your dog is!! (And, as all dog owners know, the dog in question is being so a dog, they are simply (and happily) fufilling their role as pack-member)
@DS#1 The key is the emotion, of course. This visting of historical sites is like your going to a Theme park where professionals have re-created your past life and interests.. all to scale.
…besides, ask a roger…they don’t go to Gettysburg or Vicksburg or Milan to experience what life was back then…they (the rogerian traveler) goes there to see if ‘they got it right’ (lol)
* for this one, best ask the Progenitor roger**
** his answer will not be correct, but between that answer and the (easily anticipated answer of a scott) you will have your correct answer
It’s not a sentiment, it is a command! ;) ok j/k
But I do love to travel… and though I’m not sure what the scott or roger would say, I think going is the best part. If the destination is someplace I want to be, then that is great too, but I have always loved to go. When I was two, my dad declared that ‘On the Road Again’ was my theme song in life. Later, when I was 17, he changed it to ‘I’m in a Hurry’, along with instructions not to drive the car over 90 mph for more than 5 minutes at a time, because of the ratings on the tires.
Your talk of rogers and historical landmarks reminds me of Japanese tourists in Yellow Stone. These herds of people running around, taking pictures of everything and acting like everyone is in THEIR way! Personally, I find the weddings taking place while Old Faithful erupts much more interesting.
Modern airports are the clearest manifestation of the potential of humankind…the vision of the future. Unfortunately it appears to be the future (by) Ridley Scott
Damn. At least the rogers like it.