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“You have a unique perspective on personality and behavior…now what the hell?” the Wakefield Doctrine it’s really rather simple

February 14, 2013 By

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

At some point in your day today, you will be with other people. It might be at school, it could be at work, it’ll possibly even be when you are at the gym or out to do the shopping for the week’s groceries. And in the middle of whatever it is you are doing, eating lunch with your friends in the cafeteria or sitting in the break room for morning coffee or perhaps you take a minute while standing in line at the supermarket, the thought will occur to you, “those Wakefield Doctrine people said this might happen, that I would think about them… why oh why? didn’t I finish that damn Post?!”

Well, today being Valentine’s Day, here is our gift to you. Just one catch! no, it does not involve closing your eyes, nor does it require faking an enthusiastic response…just this:  you need to know which of the three personality types is your predominant worldview, clark or scott or roger* Follow along below in the block quote and you will totally have a different day.

clarks: we have probably caught you at school or work. No! don’t laugh, you are alone at your computer and real people do not, I repeat, do not laugh delightedly to themselves, trust me on this one. Anyway, since you are in a fairly restrictive environment, we will keep this exercise fairly simple. Find the nearest scott and tell them that you have this new, really cool thing about personality types, but it will have to wait until after work. Then stop talking! (This is the tricky part for you), do not elaborate and totally resist the urge to play it coy, hinting and such. Just stop and ignore the scott. And watch them, because after the scott you selected accepts the fact that you will not be telling them anymore, no matter how much they cajole or threaten or pretend to not care, the next person they talk to will be a roger! (Guaranteed)

scotts: go to your clarklike friend (you know who that is, the one that always has the great ideas but can’t get up the nerve to do it themselves and they’re really funny, but no one knows it but you) and tell them you have come across something really interesting (you can tell them it’s about personality theories, but trust us, it doesn’t matter, they will get all excited). Tell them that it is funny and you will tell the name of it or the website (your choice, you people are not big on the tech stuff, we understand) after work. Then watch them. The next person they talk to will be a roger.

rogers: you know what a pain in the ass you people can be? How it’s all, ‘well, isn’t that interesting?’ Well we know that you are very good at puzzle-solving, so here you go: you see the pattern in the previous two entries, right? Fill in the blanks for yourself and your situation, we know you can do it! (Well, all right. Seeing how you are not like the other rogers, we’ll give you this: write a Comment and we’ll answer one direct question to help you know who you should tell and who they will talk to first.)

 

Happy Executed-by-Archers-that-makes-him-a-Saint?!! Day

This video?  jeez louise  this is what is so great about ‘the youtube’…never heard of Tommy Emanuel  but, damn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSISRyo8HE4

*don’t worry! (clarks) it’s ok to guess!  you know you’re good at guessing!  (scott?) you’re a scott and you know it!  (roger?) sorry, you’re not a scott, and we know it!

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lets get a (re)Overview of this Personality Theory …this Wakefield Doctrine

February 12, 2013 By

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

Three things to remember:

  1. how a person relates (themselves) to the world at large results in what we call a ‘worldview’ (which amounts to a ‘personal reality’)
  2. everyone has the potential for relating to the world in one of the three characteristic ways and while everyone does settle into one ‘predominant’ worldview, the other two ways (of relating) remain available throughout life
  3. clarks are the Outsiders (clarks think), scotts are the Predators (scotts act) and rogers are the Herd Members (rogers feel)

There.  The Basics of the Wakefield Doctrine!  Everything you need to know when you are looking (at) yourself.

Next: the Characteristics of the three worldviews.

clarks: the Outsider, view the world as would any rather intelligent, fairly resourceful, not so aggressive explorer would. The goal for most clarks is to learn the information that they surmise was made available to every child (they may have been in the bathroom at the time of the ‘how to be like everyone else’ lesson) and therefore be in a position to continue their lives in as close to a satisfying and fulfilling manner as possible. In the meantime, clarks will spend their time on the fringe, they will cultivate friendships with scotts and rogers to help pass the time and to get them into the better clubs. clarks are the truly creative of the three personality types which sounds cooler than it actually is, as most expressions of extreme creativity are, as a rule, met with scorn, disdain and disregard (not to mention, not paying very well). clarks take un-selfishness to a near psychotic level, valuing loyalty over any other ‘common emotional experience’,  they will be the best, of the three personality types, to have around at times of emergency, they make excellent school teachers (female clarks: grade school, male clarks: late high school, college). The saying is ‘clarks live quietly and leave a well-preserved corpse’

scotts: the Predator, view the world as any well-armed, well-equipped conqueror would. The goal for most scotts is to live life to the fullest, everyday, up until someone forces them to stop. scotts are natural leaders, with the qualification that those who follow scotts do not have any carefully thought-out expectations as to where they will end up, (when the scott becomes bored with the leadership-thing). scotts crave attention the way that most aerobic lifeforms crave oxygen, so much so, that a scott will settle for any kind of attention, up to and including: derision, laughter, scorn, hate, love or passion….all the same to a scott. female scotts created the stiletto heel industry, single….er, handedly, scotts, both male and female are attracted to rogers as their preferred form of nourishment. scotts do enjoy the company of clarks, as clarks are neither prey nor predator (at least, most of the time)…scotts are just out for a good time, a loud time, a passionate time. These are the people that they say, ‘live fast (with as many partners as possible) and leave a burnt out shell of a corpse’

rogers: the Herd Member, rogers view the world as does the Cleric standing behind the Conqueror and is salivating at the prospect of bringing salvation to an entire race of indigenous peoples. rogers are the reason that we have: civilization, healthcare, culture, jihad(s), jetliners that hardly ever crash, a banking system (that will on occasion, crash) law and justice, witch burnings and the commercialization of the arts. rogers provide stability to the human experience at the cost of innovations and creativity. after a the scott has raped and pillaged and burned the new continent and moves on, the rogers will organise and provide relief to the survivors, provided they (the survivors) are willing to accept the lord and god and the rules and the life that he (the roger) is so kind to bring to a people, so obviously in dire need. These people! these are the ones we say, ‘live moderately and imagine how many people will attend the funeral of the corpse that proves you lived‘.

Hey, congratulations!! You’ve made it this far. A bonus you have surely earned!

Ways to identify them clarks, scotts and rogers.

clarks: dress is very, eclectic with a shading towards long coats and dark colors but!  the male clarks will do something weird and outlandish with some feature of their dress, i.e. outlandish colored socks or ties , the female clarks, preferring the couture of the House of Androgyny… will favor the slightest touch of metal or ink, perhaps a contrasting color in the hair, a little purple or orange to bring out the highlights…oh!  bad posture is a sure indicator of the clark personality type

scotts: the eyes! you will always spot the scott by their eyes. A scott will, (hardly ever), be observed not paying attention to their immediate environment. They are also very animated in movement, the male scotts  in near constant physical motion, the female scotts will have the males (rogers and clarks) in motion on their behalf. scotts are easy to spot

rogers: well dressed…like a Thanksgiving turkey Dinner in House Beautiful, the rogerian female will have all the right accessories in all the fashionable shades, the males rogers will be spotted by their prediliction, not yet fully understood, for hats! and facial hair and corporate logos, wherever tasteful, of course!

And, finally a little music!

 

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Wakefield Doctrine… Sunday Edition, Saturday Night Drive

February 10, 2013 By

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

Due to an excess of frozen water in my geo-location, my internet access is limited. I am trying this first section (of this Post) from my phone. Not going so well, but you know how clarks welcome a challenge, right?

Quiene es el clark, scott y roger?

 

Well they do! clarks welcome a challenge the way that scotts love: attention, loud noise, stiletto heels, music with a strong beat, making fun of pompous people, dinner in a fine restaurant, the moment of surrender from the valiantly resisting roger, stock car races, bubble baths, fights and competition; clarks welcome a Challenge in exactly the same way that rogers feel satisfaction from: being exact, engaging in a long conversation, assembling the complicated device (with instructions push-pinned to the wall), learning that there are undiscovered branches to the family tree, starting a fight with an opponent who never realizes that there is a fight, being right, proving someone wrong, being told they are happy and successful, knowing that the family centers on them (to one degree or another).  You know, like that!

clarks welcome a Challenge (they do not love them as scotts love  nor do they feel satisfaction as does our rogerian friends as we suggest in the polyptoton above…which leads us to the Saturday Night Drive last night!

Totally excellent Drive! In attendo: Denise, Cyndi, Molly (and yours truly).  The topics ranged from learning a foreign language and it’s paralells to learning to apply the Wakefield Doctrine for fun and profit; vocation choices and clarks, the inference (of) possible gender differences as implied by the fact that when teaching is a chosen profession, clarklike females will gravitate to elementary education and clark males will hide among the ranks of graduate level teachers. We also touched on the question of the Garden of Eden and Eve as the Original clark…. (holy shit!  I just sensed an inference from this last statement that had not occurred to me, or anyone else as far as I know, in terms of understanding clarks!!) Damn!  No time today.  But the input from Cyndi and Molly is very gratifying as it totally validates my personal beliefs that as more people become familiar with the Wakefield Doctrine, the more we learn of ways that it can be used to effect totally practical benefits!… more to follow.

Hey! Terrye, Janine, Jennifer…Emily, Rich…Melanie  not that there is anything wrong with a conversation comprised entirely of clarks but we would really prefer that you call us next Saturday night.

(References available upon request)

 

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the Wakefield Doctrine (now, where were we?…. oh yeah! god created all the animals and fowls and everything in the world…. and along comes Eve!)

February 9, 2013 By

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

…so lets get back into our little application of the Wakefield Doctrine to one Mankind’s most primal, archetypical, iconic, and pervasive Tales:  the Creation of and (subsequent Fall) of the Adam and Eve.

Eve was created in the Garden of Eden to be the wife of Adam. God decides that “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a companion fit for him.” and in Genesis 2:21–22 it states

“And God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man”

After her creation, Adam names his companion Woman, “because she was taken out of Man.” “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (them Wikipedians! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve)

 

So, Adam couldn’t stand to be alone. He had a world, a perfect world full of life, none of which was inimical to him and he…couldn’t stand to be alone. Yeah, I know what a roger. So lets imagine the scene:

“Hey Adam, got a present for you!”
“God, you shouldn’t have!  …. what the hell is it?”
“Well… I saw how lonely and bored you seemed to be… and you know, I Know how you think and how you could use more of your own kind, so I made you a woman. Well, I didn’t make you a woman! That’d be too fucked up… what I did was make you another Man …for companionship! But, since I know how you feel about competition… I made him a ‘her’!”
“A ‘her’? What are you talking about, dude?”
“Well this is a person, like you,  wait! wait hear me out!  I made her from a part of you…. no, nothing you’re gonna miss, But she is not your equal! Sort of the same but different!”
“So I can tell her what to do and she has to do it?”
“Yep”
“…and you’ll back me up?  I mean, it won’t be my fault if she doesn’t like what I want her to do, it will be the Will of…”
“The total fricken Will of Me!  You got it, bud.  Hey enjoy!”

Fast forward to the Serpent thing, since the Bible doesn’t seem to provide a lot of detail in how Adam and Eve spent their days prior to the apple incident. Probably not doing much, walking around looking at stuff…we’re pretty sure sex was not invented yet, otherwise Eve would have told the Serpent to take a hike.

Then the day comes when Eve is tempted by the Serpent into eating of the fruit of knowledge of Good and Evil and, (for reasons never explained), Eve feels the need to get Adam to join her. Given Adam’s rogerian worldview, like how difficult a sales pitch must that have been?!  (“Adam? I have something you don’t have….”)

So the Question Today is this:

Given what we know about the character and nature of the three worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, why do we believe that Eve was a clark, and why do we think that the implications (of this interpretation) are not all positive and encouraging to the clarks reading this here Post here?

[Attn: DS1 here – Heads up!  Due to super snows, “Doctrine Central” is temporarily without power.  Since I presently have the con, let me ask that question again: why the hell is Eve the clark?!  Call in tonight between 8:00 to 8:45 pm EST to the Saturday Night Drive Call in Show for the answer.
Dial (1-218-339-0422 access code: 512103#)   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ6ChyhXcQ4
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FEMA/DHS ALERT!!: Water in a frozen-state Possible!! Un-specified forces may use airborne enhancement…the Wakefield Doctrine (looking out for you!)

February 8, 2013 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the craziness of clarks, the really stupidness of scotts and the astonishing dumbness of rogers)

My pre-dominantely clarklike worldview has me writing this Post, apologizing in advance for it and…. still hitting ‘Publish’.

 

The North American culture is officially designated, ‘predominately rogerian‘ on the basis of the activity surrounding the upcoming WEATHER EMERGENCY, aka ‘a pretty decent snowstorm’. I suppose I should qualify the rest of this mercifully short Post, with a statement to the effect that it is not being written for the benefit of any of our rogerian Readers.
However, I would be shirking my duties as, Articulator-in-Chief, if I did not remind everyone that the second most important principle of the Wakefield Doctrine (the 1st being that our ‘worldviews’ do, in fact, constitute reality, albeit, personal reality), is that while we all live in a pre-dominant worldview, we retain the qualities of the ‘other two’ personality types. (And) these manifest to varying degrees in how we perceive and react to events in our daily lives.

In any event, we are witnessing the rogerian worldview, as reflected in the news/weather/warning information-yelling of the Media that is/are an integral part of our culture (as it is in all cultures). This is one of the few times when ‘age’ offers a legitimate advantage1. The reason for this statement is that the older the individual, the more the contrast in ‘cultural-standards-over-time stands out. Just as cars were bigger and a whole lot un-safer in the 1950’s, the Role/Responsiblity of the State in protecting the lives and health of the members (of the State), has grown from  hardly noticeable to the current state in which snow storms have names. (yeah, just like Hurricanes!).  I used to laugh at the titles of the cheesy movies on the SciFi Channel, like ‘Anacondasaur’  or ‘Piranhasaurus Rex’ until this last Autumn.  Then we had our first official SuperStorm.  ( The plot development of the semi-hit movie, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ spent a lot of time showing  satellite photos of the three giant storms that were about to totally fuck up the northern hemisphere… apparently this movie is now required viewing by our friends at the National Weather Service… I mean, how could anyone deny that Sandy was so a SuperStorm. Did you see how far those clouds reached?)

I apologise for indulging in my clarklike aspect (‘outrage’2) and will simply say, ‘Hey rogers! I get it. You are not really worried or concerned about health and safety. You just enjoy having a sense of the herd. Like being at a party, the person you are standing across from is not why you will say the party ‘sucked’ or ‘was awesome’, it will be how many people were there.
I get it. At least, I should, the Wakefield Doctrine tells us everything we need to know about how people act and react. For that matter, the Wakefield Doctrine rightly states that you will ‘not only know why a person acts the way that they do, but you will know how they will act in situations that have not yet occurred‘.

Thank you for your readation.3

(I promise to get back to Eve tomorrow…. yeah, scott  I get it!)

 

1) In no way to be confused or conflated with the totally indulgent belief that ‘this younger generation doesn’t know how to: dance/play music/make movies/have sex/make love/take drugs/study for the Big Exam/live a Decent Life/get the most out of Life/not screw things up so much

2)  We clarks see things happen that don’t make sense and when we cannot get a reasonable explanation we get upset….worse, when we see other people seemingly not notice this ‘unreasonable thing’ then we let ourselfs  get all  ‘outraged’ and such. We should not.

3) the photo is kind of indulgent?  well duh!  what part of the tome of this Post did you not get! lol

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