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

…beginner Readers?  you might want to skip this Post. It’s not that you wouldn’t understand today’s Post, (you would, if you are willing to trust your instinct enough and not worry about getting ‘the right answer’ and just go with what you think), it’s just that today we speak of aging and degrading, running down and getting old, losing teeth and growing fat, you know, the fun topics.

Two Questions (that are really three):

1. what happens when we get old or sick or injured or messed up…(way up)
2. which of ‘the other two’ is the hardest to ‘imitate’

This being the Wakefield Doctrine, naturally we will address the second question first.  Lets use real, clarklike linear thinking and say, of the three, where are the polar opposites? lol…yeah!  clarks are capable of making that statement and,  …and! thinking that it is reasonable  to talk about polar opposites when dealing with a group of three.  Bring on the damn Venn Diagrams!!  god! I loves  me a good Venn Diagram!

Alright, here, try these Polar Opposites on for size:

1. clark and roger
2. scott and clark
3. roger and scott

so, what we’re saying here is that the above represents the most difficult, (the) nearly impossible one to imitate/act like for each of the three personality types. (i.e. it is most difficult for a clark to appreciate the worldview of a roger, it is damn near anathema for a scott to be comfortable in the personal reality of a clark and, for a roger to live as a scott, well, lets just say they would rather  do anything else than to to embrace the scottian worldview. Clear?

Great!  While you’re in this Doctrine mode of thinking* lets run at the first Question (which is building off the first Answer) and say:  if each of the three personality types decay, degrade, get chronically stressed out…grow old in a bad way**, then they will appear to those around them to be sliding into the worldview of:

1. clark (appears to be acting like a)  scott
2. scott sounds increasingly like a roger
3. roger somehow, it’s really weird, but for all the world appears to be thinking like a clark

Makes sense, right?  the lion (you know, scotts!!) loses too many teeth, the scar tissue from countless successful battles takes it’s toll, they will (tend to) become rogerian.  clarks…growing old without developing their self-assurance first, will become scottian…aggressiveness let loose only because they can’t remember why they should care about what others think  and rogers… they seem to have to the best (of all three worldviews), forgotten and left alone, they will dive into their memories, shedding the need to show the world the desirability of learning the Right Way to do Things and become content with appreciating the knowledge of the world around them.

There ya go!  When you’re out there this week, shopping for groceries, trying to hold on to your job, studying hard, thinking about the future, regretting the recent past, hoping to be happy, fearing being alone, taking the kids to swimming lessons and hating how you look in a bathing suit, working hard and praying that this time it will turn out different, being afraid of being satisfied, being satisfied with not wanting more and thinking/acting/feeling like one of us, remember: we all live in a reality that is personal to us and it corresponds to the world of the Outsider(clarks), the life of the Predator(scotts) and the world of the Herd Member(rogers) but, we all have within, the potential to see the world as ‘the other two’ are experiencing it.

* meaning… this is fun! don’t worry about it being ‘true’ in every single situation, don’t be concerned if it is logically consistent, science is art if you are creative enough in your approach

** go easy on the application of the ‘bad’… and the ‘grow old’ thing? instead think of the person you know is one type but seems to morph at times into another. better yet, consider the person you know who acts like they’re doing a bad imitation (of one of the three personality types)