Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks with their Outsider perspective and scotts who view the world as would a Predator and rogers who know that everything makes sense (or it doesn’t count)
Lots to cover, not a lot of time to do it.
Semi-elevator pitch: the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for understanding the behavior of people in our lives. the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the idea that everyone grows up and develops in one of three worldviews (or personal realities, if you prefer) and it is the nature of these worldviews that determines what we call personality types.
(Put another way): if you grow up in a reality that is best characterized as the world of predator and prey, then your way of dealing with such a world will, by and large result in what we describe as the scottian personality type: action-oriented, quick to react, aggressive (socially and any other -ly you might care to name), fun, cruel, mercurial (but not temperamental), gregarious (but not ‘a joiner’) opinionated (but not driven by dogma), a decisive leader (but not given to thinking-through consequence), a great joke teller (but always ‘pushing it’… making the jokes more and more until nearly everyone walks away), a killer entertainer (but cannot bear to be out of the limelight), very giving and charitable (but forgetful), spontaneous ( yet calculating)… but this personality is all that it is because you have grown up in and are, in fact, at this very moment experiencing the world as would a predator in the world of predator and prey.
(Yes, you should have taken your One-a-Day Allegory Supplements this morning! too late now…stay with us, the worst is over…. and you’re correct in finding that little statement more disturbing than re-assuring!)
(Put a second way): those of us who have experienced the world as an Outsider, (ever since we can remember), will not only have social strategies that are meant to allow us to try to fit in, but at the same time (and seemingly in contradiction) maintain, even celebrate our status as the non-member, all the while searching for the knowledge, the information, the clue, the insight that will allow us to understand ‘the World’ and by doing so, become a part of it! (in the meantime, however) we will remain ever curious, marking no fact as insignificant, quiet (in a loud sort of way), creative in a very… creative way, intuitive (while maintaining that we are not like them…wtf?), good teachers, especially of the young (who we hope have not yet learned to recognize us as the outsiders), the epitome of the homemaker (so self-less as to make you wonder what we hate about ourselves), funny (provided ‘they’ listen closely enough to hear us), ruthlessly fierce defenders of what(ever) might be dear to us (yet tolerant to abuse, provided it is ‘only us’), giving (spoiled by the lack of a capacity to take). This is how the worldview of the clark is recognized and once known, much about what goes on inside the mind of a clark becomes clear… for a minute
(Third way)? …rogers is the term (and is the word) used to designate the personality type that results from being alive in the personal reality (aka worldview) that is best described as the world of the herd. Not derogatory in any manner, other than the obvious, this personality type accounts for the majority of the population, for reasons not yet established. But thank god we have them…. the rogers, not the reasons! If you have grown up and matured into an adult experiencing this worldview, we will all recognize you because you are totally certain of how the world works (and when it acts unexpectedly then it is clearly someone’s fault), you are the people (of any and all cultures) who organize and maintain tradition and are multi-handily responsible for the rise and fall of civilizations, the reasons for war (but not the cause of peace), you build the airplanes (and regulate the industry), you create documentaries (yet insist on romance), you re-write and edit history (but cannot tolerate any variation) you love: labels (as long as they are yours to apply to others), instructions (provided they guarantee a successful outcome), authority (as long as you get to impose the sentences), the old (but hate the new), to celebrate your home (as long as there is a family tree). rogers give us continuity (but lack creativity)
OK! lol sorry, got off on some kind of side track!
To close: we all have the capability to experience any of the three worldviews, it’s just that we are in one of the three pretty much all the time. The good news? If you want to self-improve yourself, the Doctrine totally has your number.
(Did someone say, “man on man, what the hell was that?! I need to clear my head, if only there was some music that would do this for me!”)
About clarkscottroger
Multifaceted, at times complex, yet always on point, the Doctrine, as presented this morning is an exceptional start. Everything outlined in what? several paragraphs. And by a clark no less. See, brevity can be ours! LOL
Hey, did I mention it’s a heck of a lot of fun?
Special thanks to Molly for her input at last Saturday Night’s Call In Show. I love it when the light reaches full wattage, when another clark can clarify for a clark something about a clark:) And to the Progenitor roger for some totally invaluable info on rogers. Cool.
(what??!! no frickin way they’ll do it… alright…alright!)
Open Enrollment for the First Annual Wakefield Doctrine Study Hour, free-play and Certification Hour!
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bring a friend
Okay, it’s all becoming more clear. I think that I’m primarily a scott. I can definitely see what you mean, though, about periodically falling into one of the other two personality types. Thanks for clearing it up!
lol thank you for helping me illustrate the Doctrine!
I just Posted a reply to your initial Comment, in which I provided 3 definitions, several inferences and a bunch of examples… all just in time to follow your ‘concluding’ Comment! damn if we didn’t already have a Doctrine, this would be a perfect example of a clark-scott interaction.
Glad you stopped by!
I think I’m going to have to add you to my blogroll – I seriously don’t want to miss any of your posts. I suddenly realized my mom is a scott and that is why we’ll never see eye-to-eye (because I’m a clark) and the fact that most are rogers…I also realize that Mitt Romney is a scott, and I’d venture to guess that Obama is a clark with scott-tendencies. Hehe. How’s that? This is entirely way too fun but so helpful. If I can understand the world a little better through understanding clarks, scotts and rogers, then awesome!
that would be cool, (provided) I can reciprocate… do you have a preference as to how you are listed on the Doctrine blogroll? I can list it as pictimillitude.com, of course or anything else you would like be see on the list (linked back to your site).
good call on the obama thing… as you read, the Doctrine has always maintained that we all retain the capability of the ‘other two’, but as our (collective) understanding of the ramifications of the Wakefield Doctrine increases, we have had to develop the terminology. Not surprisingly, what with your being a clark and all, lol, you are putting the pieces together and making the inferences totally in line with how this theory has developed.
We have pushed outwards on the issue of the ‘the other two nascent worldviews’, we now refer to them as secondary and tertiary aspects.
As an example, I am a clark with a strong secondary scottian (scow-shun) aspect with a weak tertiary rogerian aspect. This development of more precise language is allowing greater insights into how people ‘shade their style of behavior, consistent with living in a pre-dominant worldview (clark or scott or roger)’
The thing is, it is not a compulsory symmetry, i.e. people do not seem to need to have significant or otherwise noticeable secondary or tertiary aspects.
This accounts for the people who, even though you know the to be people of good intellect and capacity to understand, demonstrate absolutely no interest in this here Doctrine here!
Lets try this: you have a friend who is a scott (and you do), this friend will mostly likely ‘get the Doctrine’, maybe not enough to develop an independent interest in it, but enough for the two of you to have fun with it. But your scottian friend has a scottian friend who would totally not get it, and upon having the Doctrine explained, will either look at you sideways or (if this scott was ranked submissive to your friend (scott) then they would pretend to find it interesting, but it would be clear that they did no have a clue.
This I would submit is a case of a scott without a secondary clark aspect. No interest, no curiosity nothin… it happens. Same with rogers, if they do not have a strong secondary clark or scott, they will sneer, maybe use this Doctrine to make fun…
I will stop at this point.
Let me know how you would like your website listed on the Doctrine blogroll, and thanks for your insight/perspective, Cyndi