Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
I was going to write about how much the Wakefield Doctrine has changed me and altered the path of my life, for today’s Post. However, seeing how I’m actually writing this yesterday, ( ‘right now’ in the parlance of Time), it’s only natural that we should discuss ‘Time Travel and the Wakefield Doctrine’.
(Before we get any further into today’s Post, (be sure to Comment and tell your friends to read this here Post here), allow me to review two concepts that are part of the underlying principles necessary to a full enjoyment of our favorite personality theory. They are:
- ‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘ often I will hear people say, ‘oh man! that’s something only a scott would do’ or, ‘my cousin is a firefighter, isn’t that a rogerian job, he doesn’t strike me as being a roger!’ The ‘everything Rule’ is there to remind us that, though the Doctrine tells us that there are three distinct personal realities (aka worldviews), we are all still living in a common world. In this world, there are Firefighters and Fisherman, Surgeons and Gardeners, Prostitutes and Politicians, Teachers and Children…. clarks and scotts and rogers are all of these things and everything else. The (observed) effect of having a particular worldview is not simply that a scott will approach a job or a hobby or a romantic date differently than would a clark or a roger, but the thing that she experiences, the dang an sich, is manifested in accordance to her worldview. It is this ‘manifesting’ that is what allows for the different worldviews to interact with the common worldview and still permit the individual differences to be expressed. Not only can we know how a certain thing might manifest for a person, given their worldview, but we can also predict how the person will experience and you know that means!
- ‘manifesting’ is what accounts for how we will experience (any part of life) and therefore, to an extent, the range of choices available to us…. ( you want an example in real life? well, do you?…then go to our friend Christine’s blog and read this Post and keep in mind (like we need to tell you…lol) she is a scottian woman. And just in case you are tempted to think, ‘but that’s obvious! she’s a scott! Go and see how a certain situation manifests to a roger. Kristi has a Post that could have been titled, ‘A Brief Insight into the Thoughts and Feelings of a Well-Balanced roger on a Typical Day’ here…. read this Post.
( I would cite a Post written by a clark but…. talk about your ‘coals to Newcastle‘ ! lol…. check these out: Lizzi (pick a post…any post) or zoe, (interesting for reasons beyond the scope of this Post) or…Denise or Cyndi. G’wan with ye now.
As today’s Post’s subtitle implies, the adventure of traveling in time, where it possible, would be a different experience for each of the three worldviews. rogers, being the technically gifted (they are the reason that we have computers and reliable airliners (yeah, so I’m like 87 years old with that expression) and the natural engineers. Their time machine would look something like:
a clark, well while clarks know an awful lot of things and, are the genuinely creative (of the three personality types), will attempt to forestall criticism (and laughter) by fashioning a machine that will simply look cool and thereby obviate the probing questions, such as: ‘how does it actually work?’ and, ‘does it actually work?’. Their time machine would tend to look something like:
While scott (though not inclined to take the time to build an actual time machine), would simply find one and hot-wired it to take his/her friends on a joyride in:
That being said, this Post is about the Wakefield Doctrine, not time machines. Then again, if the Wakefield Doctrine is all that it’s cracked up to be, surely it could predict how a concept (and common) day dream such as ‘If I could travel back in time and retain my experience and knowledge, yet inhabit my younger body, with no one around me being any the wiser, I would…..
…out of time. So, tell us how you would use Time Travel. (You don’t even have to tell us your predominant worldview… your Comment will tell us that, thank you. lol)
I don’t know who I am but I would choose to ride in the Clark machine.
I call dibs on being Christine’s lab assistant! You just know youre not getting eaten by a T-rex and youre coming back alive…. after that leg thing and all those pig stories… If you figure out this time travel thing for real I need a ticket! but you are correct… I only wanna go as a lacky…
before we get too ‘all hail our scotts! don’t forget the kibble!’
picture if you will:
Year: 66,000,000 BC
a clark and a roger sitting around a fire, “man, I’m getting sick of the dinosaur meat!” “yeah, me too, roger but at least they’re a deadend in an evolutionary sense…no harm from eating Bronto burgers!”
(suddenly from the underbrush)
“Hey!! screw that, I got us some tender lemur food! the little sucker thought he could hide in a little hut by the river…tried to hit me with a rock! …lets eat!”
Actually I thought you were gonna say it was like the joke where the scott stops to put on his shoes when being chased by a Maneater. …cuz he just has to outrun the roger…
Oops his running shoes….
Told like a clark! Lol
lol…. (thank you, that was kind of you, to fracture up the joke. I re-assembled the parts and laughed and laughed)
no, unfortunately I was trying for the more complex… change the future by eating the first human precursor animal, or some such thing…
Oh I got what you were going for…my secondary just made an assumption. …
There are no moments in my life I feel the need to go back to. I think I’m happy moving forward.
don’t know if I have a need….now desire…. that might be a different matter
Now THAT’S interesting. ..I never thought of going back to my own past!