Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
While the subtitle of today’s Post hints at a topic understandable only to odd-at-heart, there is much that can be useful to our scottian and rogerian Readers. Please, stay with us. While you may be a person living in the world of the predator (being a scott) or comfortably grounded in the reality of the Herd (as a roger, it’s tough to imagine a World without Rules, isn’t it?), you do have a secondary clarklike aspect. I say this with certainty, because I have gone out into the world and spoken of clarks, scotts and rogers to …well, to scotts and rogers who have only a predominant worldview (without any significant secondary aspect) and I’ve felt the stares and ‘that look’* The look from a person who knows they are dealing with an Outsider. So, if you’re a scott or a roger and you’re still reading, then you have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. So what? Well, you’re not the only person in your life are you? … oh, sorry roger, let me rephrase that… (lol just a little joke for Michelle and Kristi and Phyllis and the other rogers who not only enjoy our little Doctrine, but are invaluable to our efforts to know all three personal realities. The point is, there is always something of value when we manage to ‘see the world as the other person is experiencing it’.
….to our Post.
hey clarks. what’s worse about those days when you wake up and your creativity drive is somehow ‘on 11’? is it the fact that you have a ton of ideas that you know you don’t have time for or is it that foreboding feeling that something bad will be the end result? I mean, it’s not like we hate the feeling, but we always wonder why it only happens sometimes and, hardly ever, on purpose. The other thing (about clarks)… the worse it feels (inside) the funnier we can be (funnier being defined as making other people laugh… for whatever reason, the quick and clever asides and observations seem to be of a way higher energy level when we are heading towards that dark place… life can be frickin hilarious, no?)
Anyway, short post. non-clark Readers? this post should provide two things of value: a) an increased sense of the world of the Outsider (’cause, like we implied a little earlier, you’ve got some of that your-own-self and 2) parents? you clarklike children… they get like this too but, you probably already have a sense of that (by virtue of being a parent who has enough on the ball to be reading the Wakefield Doctrine) but… a tip: the eyes. Watch their eyes. It’s been said that, when you’ve studied the Doctrine long enough, you will be able to spot the clarks (and the scotts, for that matter) on the basis of a photograph of the person’s face…. and it’s true. You can. or could, if you want to… (bonus hint: the fear is the easy thing to spot (in the eyes of the clark)… the ‘distance’ is less easy. There’s something in the eyes of a clark, that if you look you can see that they are somewhere else… not necessarily all the time, but it’s quite clear that they do leave the world as you know it. (Kind of the opposite of the eyes of a scott, when you think about it!… with scotts, the totally distinctive characteristic is that they are totally there…. in the present …alert.)
Enough for now. This was supposed to be a short Post.
* clarks are quite familiar with ‘that look’…. hey, just because we’re invisible most of the time, doesn’t mean we’re blind
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I wonder if the “worse it feels” has to be inside? I’m thinking of times when circumstances were difficult, and humor seemed to be a way of heading off going to that dark side. My dad still talks about how funny I was during my sister’s wedding photo shoot–a happy occasion, to be sure, but it was a December wedding and the photos were taken outside on a windy, freezing cold day. My dad and I stood next to each other and exchanged quiet quips. I don’t remember what I said, but I think my secondary clark was on a roll that day.
great insight I agree, but, as usual, hearing from a person who is taking an idea (the humor thing) and relating from a distinctly different perspective (worldview)…adds to the (original thought)… in fact, you may be adding to our understanding of the role of secondary aspect, which we kinda see as a phenomenon that asserts itself pretty much only at time of duress (physical, mental, emotional, circumstantial, metaphysical, spiritual).
food for thought
As a scott, I must say that the WD has been very helpful in understanding and working with my clark children.
this is one of the best Comments to be written at this here blog here. I would say ‘that makes me feel very good’, if I thought I could pull it off (lol no, stop laughing chidingly… it has been said about clarks (that) we make the hard things easy and the easy things hard)… all of the effort behind all of the posts here are now so much …can’t say ‘less work’ because none of this has been work, can’t say it is all vindicated, because none of this has been dependent on external validation… maybe what I want to say is simply ‘if I were a real person, your comment would make me feel satisfied with the outcome of publishing this blog’
cool (hey, got a little emotional there, don’t tell anyone!)
I’m going for door #1 Monty. “…the fact that you have a ton of ideas that you know you don’t have time for…” That freakin’g gets me everytime. More so since my return 13 or so months ago to the 9-5(or 6 or 7) scene.
Which leads me to think sometimes “that figures”. Why is it all the creative stuff starts percolating prior to getting in the car to go to work? Worse yet, while driving! (Yes, yes. That is my perfect world asserting itself)
“…that foreboding feeling that something bad will be the end result?” Not quite this for me, rather it’s when the something bad is on the horizon or in process already, that’s when the creative juices start flowing. Method of coping? Sure. Expression of internalized feeling? Jackpot. clarks emote through writing, humor. Any way that is not direct. clarks! practice being direct, concise and getting to the point quickly! (unlike this comment lol)
The eyes are the windows to the soul so they say. So it makes sense that what you see in the eyes of a clark is fear.
I’ll come back when I’m not in so rambling a mood lol. Oh wait! That won’t be until tomorrow! I won’t have the internet back until then. I’m at the library now. Yes, you guessed correctly. I chose to sit at a singular table facing the only window in this section of the library. Yes, my back is to everyone. No chance of looking at a single person. I can hear the turning pages of a newspaper but I will not look behind me. Today, I’m full on clark. No scottian secondary in sight.