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

A little, impromptu post, if I might. Promptued* by a comment from, Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi.

“How much we do owe the Rogers. And now i understand why when asked why i believe what i believe, i go so far to into the logical explanations that some people wonder if i have a degree in theology or something.”

Indeed.

M’s comment serves as a perfect cascading explanation of the Everything Rule, which states: Everyone does everything, at one time or another. What it means is where the cascading begins.

First level: “…when asked why I believe …far to into the logical explanations …degree in theology or something.”

From the perspective of the Everything Rule first: clarks, scotts and rogers can be religious in ways that corresponded to some or all religious beliefs, tenets, systems and such. Theys Buddhist scotts and there are Wiccan rogers and clarks among the ranks of Jehovah Witnae.  They all remain, Predators, Herd Members and Outsiders, because those labels refer to the reality in which they respectively live. We call these personal realities (one’s) predominant worldview. It is what you experience. Note: I did not say ‘It is what you see or hear when you and I walk down the street, on our way to lunch in a popular restaurant’. It is what you experience.

ok, so that’s the first level.

The second and equally interesting perspective focuses our attention on how a thing (or hobby, occupation, belief system) appears when one of the three personality types exhibit it. We refer to this as ‘manifesting’. For example, ‘How does mainstream religion manifest in an Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) or a Herd Member(roger)?’

Brief aside*** It is clear that, based on the characteristics and personal qualities of the three ‘personality types’, each might have an affinity for a given thing (or hobby, occupation, belief system). We might say, for each predominant worldview, there are certain activities more in sync with it than others. A scott tends to be a more effective cop than a clark, a roger who is an accountant will, all things being equal, be more successful than a clark and while there are clarks who are standup comedians, there will be a difference in audience size, (Don Rickles versus Steven Wright)

The point is, the common world is made up of many things (hobbies, occupations, belief systems, likes, dislikes and pet peeves) but when you’re looking at a given person, remember that it, (the aforementioned list of everything that makes us human), is manifested, in part, as a reflection of the reality in which that person lives.

Predominant worldviews are not personality traits, tropisms, appetites or instincts, they are the reality of the person.

Thats the fun part.

Thanks out to Mimi for providing such an observation as to engender this discussion.

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*** well, I am a clark