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

Let us pick up where we left off yesterday, on a question of …reality*.

“I suspect it was my search method, rather than that which I was looking for…”

(Hey! New Readers! If you’re trying to enjoy this blog, looking up posts in the archives and you are almost having fun, don’t despair. If you didn’t have what it takes to enjoy, (and, even better, derive a benefit from) this Wakefield Doctrine, you’d of left three-quarters of the way through the first post.)

Seriously. We’ve done studies. In all the cities and, other, enurban places and it’s a fact that the cross-section/profile/demographic of the Readers is simple, and two-part**: you’re either a clark (live in the personal reality of the Outsider) or you enjoy/rue-the-day-you-realized-it/are-blessed-with-a-signficant-secondary-clarklike-aspect**.

Welcome.

For you, those still wanting to find the good parts that you’re sure are here somewhere, in the words of an unsuccessful mage, ‘Give up the trying’. Just let this thing, (the Wakefield Doctrine), whisper in your ears, rather than trying to shout and command it into accessibility. “I know you’re in there! Come out behind the odd sentence structure and Crayola syntax and make sense!”

you know, in the early days of this blog, we used to give thought to just this question, (the one starting us off at the top, not the one about ‘making sense’), and we’d say, ‘a tendency towards creative imagination and flexible intelligence’ would be the hallmarks of those who find us and decide to hang out awhile.

ok. so our ‘lead’ into this post… the act of searching having an effect on the quarry? ‘If you don’t believe what you’re searching for is there, how can you ever see it?’

but you guys already know that, don’cha?

* and, as soon as we complete that, we’ll write something fun

** the Wakefield Doctrine posits that, while we are, all of us, born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic forms (the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers), we settle into one (and only one) at a very early age. We develop our styles for interacting with the world (our personality ‘types’) but we retain the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. Some of us have stronger secondary aspects than others. For example, I’m a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. ya know? The reason we say, with complete confidence, that if you’re not a clark (predominant worldview of the Outsider), then you have a significant secondary clarklike aspect, is that rogers and scotts who lack this, tend to have insufficient creative curiosity to make this fun, rather than work, (to understand).