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

I had a really good Post written, unfortunately it was (written) in my head only and it was 4:03 am when I read it. I add that second part to let you know how I can claim to know it was a really good post. I’ll try to re-write it here, now.

Most everyone reading this will be familiar with the underlying tenets of the Wakefield Doctrine. Perhaps the most basic and fundamental of these is that we, all of us, live in a reality that is, to certain extent, personal. From this we derive the difference between the Doctrine and the ‘real’ personality typing system, i.e. for us, personality type is a reflection of the reality that we grew up and developed our interpersonal skills in, as opposed to being innate, inherent, instilled or insufferable qualities that came pre-packaged at birth, like a sim card that lets you do certain things but, if you want to do other things, maybe even like other brand phones, then, sure you can, but you have to like, re-program it and that’s not exactly printed on the box the damn phone came in, of course, you could buy an upgrade, but who has the money for that, and you end up, like most of us, hoping that your friends learn something that you can, like, half copy and half learn and then you can improve the phone’s operability and hopefully not fuck it up so much that it doesn’t work.

Did I mention that this Post was originally written at 4:03 am? Well, you know how that time of day can be. In any event, all of you out there are reading this from a personal reality (we call it pre-dominant worldview, or simply worldview), that gave rise to social strategies and ways-of-interacting-with-the-world that we refer to as:

• clarks (Outsider) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and wonder how we’re possibly going to get by in the world ‘out there’ today, the distinction (of being apart from the world and everything that goes with it, including, god! especially including the people), tells you everything you need to know to be able to identify the clarks in your world.
• scotts (Predator) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and know where they are and what needs to be done in order to move forward without being restrained or restricted, the value of freedom cannot be assigned because it is without limits and, this lack of limits has as much to do with the others in the scotts‘ life as it does with their own enjoyment of life… act and live, protect and preserve the pack and …did we say, live and act (because life is short) yet?
• rogers (the Herd Member) ever wonder who buys alarm clocks that have snooze features?  yeah. because for our rogerian brethren, even not getting up on time really should be planned out, at very least assigned a quantity (“Hit Snooze and Get 10 Minutes of Sleep!”) who on earth can do that and not lie awake wondering if 10 minutes is almost up or, maybe there’s a mistake in the programming and now it’s like, and hour too late?  sorry, rhetorical question. In any event, virtually all of the technology that makes our modern lives so comfortable (and scary) are courtsey of our rogerian friends

That’s the deal with the three personality types. The self-development thing? Well that’s simple enough, my goal is to develop my rogerian and scottian aspects (in balance) with my pre-dominant clarklike worldview. (New Readers: the Doctrine maintains that we’re all born with the potential to live and develop in all three worldviews, we always end up in only one, but never lose the capacity for ‘the other two’). The underlying reason is that purpose of this here, personality here, is intended to help us to appreciate how the other people in our lives ‘relate themselves to the world around them’. Using the Doctrine makes this goal much more attainable, and totally lets us know more about the other person than we have any right to know.

Hey what the hell, is today that Monday?!!  zoe’s other blog… the carrot?? Heart and Mind Monday?  ok, lets re-arrange the content here and …

I’m happy and pleased to announce that I’ve completed writing the serial story, ‘Blogdominion’! No! seriously, the story is written down (in places other than inside my head) and it has a beginning, a middle and an End. That alone is, for me, a significant accomplishment. I’ll surely be writing more about it in coming days. But I finished writing it and I thank Val and zoe and glenn for being such Constant Readers and providing much appreciated feedback and, I thank Phyllis for doing a nearly-final-does-this-chapter-really-work reading each and every Sunday for that last…. well, the last 23 Sundays plus epilogue.  And I appreciate Denise’s tireless efforts in the edit and re-write and final read-outloud process. sine qua non, binyon.