Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
I (almost) always write Posts in the morning. Reflected in these (first part of the day) Posts is my intent to offer guidelines and tips, pointers and suggestions to you, the Reader, that the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine might appear in your own personal life.* It seems (somewhat to my surprise) that those who follow this blog have a much more comprehensive understanding of our little personality theory. So I thought to myself, I thought, “if mornings are the time (of the day) of clarks and the daytime is for scotts and the end of the afternoon is a more roger-friendly part of the day, lets skip the morning and write a Post at the end of the day.”**
So stop back this evening, lets see what a Post written in the comfortable, romantic part of the day looks like!
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OK it’s 6:00 pm EST the hour of the roger. Why do I say that? because, clarks live for the future, scotts live in the present and rogers live in the past.* So, the experiment today was, how does a Wakefield Doctrine Post sound when it is written from a rogerian perspective?
(lets put on our black beret, whip out a pipe and see what comes of my fevered brow!**)
this Wakefield Doctrine it’s something that opens doors that you had no idea were even there to be open. Finding within yourself a place that you can stand and observe the people and the animals and the fowls and everything in the world, this Doctrine is like one of those crazy hand held, brass and gilt mechanisms (that Anton Leewuwenhoek invented) to look at the way people try to deal with the demands of everyday life. There are three of these, ‘places’:
- on the Outside never a part of, always separate from, it’s hard to imagine how these poor bastards get through life… not alone, that would be easy, to be alone then you could get all grizzly adams and strike out on your own and build a satisfying life in a herd of one…. no, these clarks are neither alone nor of the herd… trapped by their minds, they spend a lifetime looking in the wrong corners
- where the Predator roams… the less said, the better about these people. they are very much a force of nature, like a forest fire or a tornado… incredible power, and attractiveness and life and death dealing, and like a forest fire they can create new from the destroyed old, they are the Sirens and the wolf packs a simple people and as long as you never forget what you’re dealing with, then nothing bad has to happen
- in and of the Herd, this is the worldview of the rogers. to be a part of and connected is so basic a truth as to be non expressible … if you have to ask about belonging, then you don’t…the opposite of clarks and the complement to scotts, these are the people who keep the game going, highly emotional giving all to the continuation of what has been, rogers all live in a perfect world… of course, perfection can cut and tear as well as nuture and salve… you know
thanks for listening, yo
*subtle point here, that ‘living in the past’… it is not so literal, like “why excuse me, I don’t want to prepare dinner, simply because when I was 5 years old, I was forced to prepare dinner”. that is living based on a personal series of elapsed life events. our rogers are not hiding in the past, Mrs Haversham-like, but they (the rogers) know that the past is, in fact, the aggregate of experiences of people (‘the herd’) and the standard of living a good life is to be found there…for the rogers. dig?
** it is a medical fact, that the only male person who can wear a beret is a roger… scientists remain baffled why this is true (that anyone would want to)
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Hey! I’m thinking about asking for Guest Posts. let me know what you all think about it, want to do about it, feel about.
*meaning, you can learn the characteristics of the three worldviews but it is only when you observe the behavior of a person in your life, will the ‘realness’ of the Doctrine be established… everyone who finds this Doctrine interesting has a moment when they stop and say, “my god! that’s of one of those rogers that the Wakefield Doctrine talks about!!” (or clarks or scotts, of course).
** meaning more the end of my work day than my awake day, say 6:00 pm EST
About clarkscottroger
FRIST! grrrrrr!
Ohhhh she growls too :D
Awaiting the warm, fluffy side of the WD.
And hoping for a DocTank sometime soon.
Lizzi
read and a)weep or 2)laugh or c)cringe lemme know! I have to admit…the words were coming out of my head, but I do not claim paternity and least not in a scent and licking sense ya know?
Your 6pm sounds a lot like your 6am.
damn! does it?
I was going for the rounded and easy-going thought structure (of the roger), shit!
Maybe you sound more rogerian than you think all the time? Nah….this sounded eady going but you always sound that way…this doesn’t sound like progenitor roger wrote it!
Yes. I live in the future. It makes me nuts. I need to learn to live in the present. It’s hard.
And. I am developing a new(ish) theory: many scotts are republican, aren’t they? And rogers are probably pretty evenly divided and I have a feeling that a disproportionately large portion of clarks are democratic. Just a hunch. Going by reactions and stuff I see on TV from time to time…
J and I were also talking about police officers are scotts, but that we’d want to be pulled over by a clark police officer who can listen to reason. But then again, they’d probably get shot off the force for thinking too much…
Cyndi
I agree with the political tendencies as described… but I can recall going through a conservative phase, back in college. (of course, at that time, at my college the tone was predominately liberal.. so naturally I would find a reason to embrace a conservative position (hint: my friends and contemporaries were at the height of fashion with the 18″ leather fringe jacket and the gigantic bell bottom pants and those, like moccasins except they came up to the knees and such, so it was only logical that I found myself attracted to 3 piece suits and wingtip shoes, ya know? lol the key was that everything I did was… deliberate which is an odd word to use…not quite right but the idea was that I was looking around and see what the world was doing and deciding to go along with/go against…but all in the head. I would not have been personally offended if some said, ‘man that suit! what’s up with that?’
as for cops, allowing that ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’, you are on the money with the scotts. they are the ‘most likely to succeed’ at this line of work. I’m sure there are clarks and even rogers out there with a gun and a badge. the rogers you would spot as they would tend to ‘hide behind the badge’ the power they exert is in the name of the law. clarks, I would totally agree, they would probably not get promoted much.
(…I was selected to be on jury duty a year or two ago, a Grand Jury in fact. I did not do well at all. The idea is that there are a lot more people involved…something like 25 or something as opposed to 12 on a regular jury. We listen as the DA presented a case of someone who struck a jogger with her car, because she might have been checking her email on her phone at just the wrong second. Well, after the cops and the DA and the victim have had their say, the group deliberates’ on whether there is ample evidence to bring charges … and, and it was like a fuckin Stephen King movie… the outrage and ‘how could they be so evil to hit the poor woman!!’ the rogers were in total control… lol it did not change the outcome, but I indulged in my own clarklike nature and asked the group, ‘who has never glanced at their phone while driving?… “burn the witch!!!” lol The emotional manifestation of the herd was palpable…I was glad to be an adult and in possession of the Doctrine but was sad when I think about how many of us (myself included when young)… allow ourselves to be ‘converted’ to the herd reality in situations like this… or in high school when laughing at the geeks or at work or anywhere else the force of the group is dominate,)
And heaven help me: wrong corners? self-doubt? leaving no stone unturned? It’s not a personality trait: it’s a friggin curse. LOL
Cyndi
( I last saw clark in the last Comment careening wildly off the reasonable conversation highway!)
PS: husby met someone at the bike shop when we was working there last Saturday. They started talking about police and such (hence the comment above) and she said she was WAY too sensitive. Husby told her: you’re a CLARK!
She didn’t bat an eye: she KNEW about the Wakefield Doctrine. Word is getting out: random people now know about the Wakefield Doctrine and you can ask someone in Asheville about who’s a clark and…my god, you’re likely to find someone who KNOWS! GO WAKEFIELD!
Cyndi
Wait. A. Minute.
no frickin way!! (really??!) oh, man… how cool is that… gotta get those new shirts… what are your thought on the fashion question? tank or tee or (even) hat (for your damn head)?