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

As much as my primary focus in these pages has, of late, been writing stories, (both Six Sentence Stories and TToT stories, arguably both fiction*), Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia, wrote a comment yesterday that is surely an opportunity to reflect on our little personality theory.

Ms. Calhoun, she writes,

It’s a good time of year for talking about the Stanley. Ooh, did you stay in it, or what it a day trip? I love haunted house shows, and ghost story shows this time of year. Now? It is a clark-thing? Not sure. That depends on whether you like fun scary shows, too. Or not.
It’s been a good journey, this modicum of not posting. Ah, I won’t have a post for tomorrow, I don’t think, but I will have a goodly amount of fodder for when I do post – soon. It’s just been nice to have a bit of a break. And you’ve seen that I’ve started a new lil project that I’m quite enjoying. You know me…I rest a bit and then start something new. Story of my life. I’m not sure what aspect of the three worldviews that compels me to come up with new projects for myself all the time, but here we are…any tao te ching for your tea time discussion today?

Let’s get to work!

(Quick Note for New Readers: three personal realities result in the development of three distinct ‘personality types’. Everyone has one, and only one predominant worldview (clark, scott or roger). However, we all retain the potential of ‘the other two’, sometimes to a level where that influence is quite apparent. There is a rule called, the Everything Rule, that states, ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another‘. What this means is there are no ‘only a scott would do that’, or ‘that is completely a rogerian job’. A clark, could be a cop. The thing of it is, ‘being a cop’ manifests differently in the personal reality of a clark than, for example, a scott (who, btw, are totally the best at being a cop in terms of the qualities useful in this occupation being so in sync with (the) qualities… celebrated in the world of the Predator (i.e. a Scott). You know, driving real fast while making a lot of noise, chasing fleeing people, shooting off guns… scotts is real good at that kinda stuff. If you want to know more, read the other parts of the blog or just ask. Back to Cynthia.)

Enjoy haunted houses? Of course, the Everything Rule suggests we consider first how an entertainment like ‘a haunted house’ manifests for the three… you know those shows on TV with titles like, ‘Real Haunted Houses of the Genuine Kind’ and ‘Sincerely Talented Hunters of scary and dramatic Haunted Houses’? (found on either the History Channel or the Science Channel because ….what the &*&$#, ya know?) the people in these shows are rogers. The people in the haunted house exhibits and displays, where someone or something jumps out at you to add to your enjoyment? scotts. The people who are drawn to a haunted house, especially those like the Stanley Hotel, well, here’s a hint: ‘You know, there is no proof that ghosts do not exist, you never know!’  lol

The topic offered by our friend that is most intriguing and will require me to return to this post later in the day. This is due to the fact that it, (the topic), being so appropriate to a discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine that my available time at this moment, (8:12 am), permits me only to pose/frame a question.

I’m not sure what aspect of the three worldviews that compels me to come up with new projects for myself all the time,

Of the three worldviews, we’re looking for the one in which the central feature is manifested by a drive to learn and a need for novelty… which of the three… hmmm

(Will be back in the afternoon. Jump in with your commentationing at any time)

*  in no way intended as anything but positive, as a clark, I not only view reality as fiction, but as a WIP in which, sometimes, the author nods off and I get a shot at the keyboard

3:08 pm

…got a minute. Being a Monday mid-afternoon, allow me to continue as we look at Cynthia’s questions and how the Wakefield Doctrine might afford you of one more view. (This is, after all, the core mission/ambition of the Wakefield Doctrine, to make available one more way to perceive reality.)

The new projects syndrome our friend refers to is surely one of the classic good news/bad news aspects of the world of the Outsider (clarks). The good news is that it is a manifestation of one of the creativity of clarks.** the bad news it’s a process in the service of an un-satisfiable need. We create in order to find. Unfortunately we are trying to find something that doesn’t quite exist, at least not in the form that we have in our minds.

** true creativity as found in the reality of clarks is to bring into existence things that did not exist otherwise. this, in distinction to the creativity of rogers and scotts** In rogers, creativity manifests as reassembly, re-configuration of things already in existence, This is evidenced by the tendency of rogerian artists enjoying more commercial success than clarklike artists. scotts? well their creativity pretty much springs from their ability to direct the attention of those around them…. “Hey! Look! Its something you’re never seen before!”

** who said, ‘That’s the Everything Rule again!’? Very good.