Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) (Hey!!! it’s really the theory, screw that it’s about the scotts and them others) (‘how quaint, the ‘theory as you call it really is rather presumptuous, anyone will tell you that! but not those scotts, they are so un-imaginative and certainly not the clarks, god you’ll never get them to shut up)

Well, that subtitle pretty much sums it all up!
Isn’t it nice when a Post can present both thesis, explanation and justification, all in the first sentence! Guess that means you are all free to go about your Sunday! …go to church and find an often overlooked social context that provides a welcome support for your desire to reflect on the part of your life that you think there is no language for… The day is Sunday!! so the normal constraints have been supplanted by the more enjoyable ones…no! you still can’t eat your meals outdoors, you certainly cannot decorate your body with paint and put fake animal parts on your head! and no screaming!! however… the tailgate party is at 11:00, plenty of time before the game… Sunday is a day that you know used to mean much, much more and you still have that sense and can see how, if they just leave you alone, you can get back to a time when people appreciated the finer things in life, the consistent and predictable fun of an afternoon of skillful reassessment.

Well, it’s true! the simple fact of the Wakefield Doctrine is that world is a…certain way for each of the three personality types.
It is not as if we (collectively) find ourselves at the Food Court at the local Mall¹ and the clark says: “sorry, those lines are really kind of long, I think I’ll just watch for a while”, and the scott: “…hey! ‘scuse me! I just gotta reach by you for this little jello tray…love your dress…hey lady! it says ‘all I can eat! does that include my friends too? no, no I’ll just put my stuff on your table while… watch my food, I got to run over there an get some tacos…love the suit’!) and the roger:  “well, I think this is a fine idea. of course, clark is standing there, you know how she is about public places and food and if you and I know scott, we will certainly have the attention of mall security. No, I’m fine, I just want to see that new authentic Peruvian take-out concession, everyone say’s it’s exactly like dining in Lima.”
Our point being, that it is not really about the conscious choices we all make as we proceed through the day, living our lives. The Wakefield Doctrine, with it’s bedrock concept of ‘worldviews’ insists that the choices made by each of the three are pretty much all the choices they have!

So today…a typical Sunday full of churches  …gatherings of the inner-reflective and football …gatherings of the loudly aggressive and hobbies and pastimes…gatherings of the established traditions allow each of the three types to live the kind of life that is the only life available, side by side, amidst and among the other two personality types.

Of course, the Wakefield Doctrine holds the key to self-improvement, for those inclined to view that as a worthwhile investment of their time, which is to say:

• mostly the clarks (who free of the requirements of society and it’s limitations insists on living as though immortal) but
• there are scotts (those with strong secondary clarklike aspects) who sense the value in improving their… huntin skills and even
• a few rogers (again, the key…hell! the requirement of a secondary clarklike aspect) will allow for the possible usefulness of knowing more about the other people who are deemed worthy of recognition… i.e. fellow herd members.

Hey!! Not so old Readers…. today’s music video is from the 1970s!  But…even though you may not have been born (the Beatles once said:  “Lift up your hearts and sing me a song That was a hit before your mother was born.”) it’s still a good song.

1)  remind me sometime to hold forth on the representative architectural features that symbolize ‘community’  over the span of history as a given  culture matures, develops and ages. It’s a fascinating study… from campfire to village fire to the community well to shrine to the deities to the church to the school house to the library to the town hall to the high school athletic field to the drugstore to the mall (back) the drugstore… all, in their time representing the most important element in the lives of those comprising the community