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

Who out there wants to hear some down-and-dirty tricks to identify the predominant worldview in people…including yourself?*

Gather a group and pose the question: “As an exercise, so don’t worry about the ‘how’, tell us, who would you rather be?”

Complete the following sentence, “A cop and an accountant walk into a bar, just before the door closes behind them, they hear a voice from the sidewalk behind them. What’s the voice saying?”

How much is 2 + 2?

In that moment the balances between sleep and awake, when the dream-shards fall to the floor and form almost a map that you know, if you’re careful and not move too quickly, can lead you back to the nightlands, you think about the day ahead. Fully committed to being awake, you begin to list the features of the day ahead, in the world out there.

Here’s a post from July 10, 2012. It discusses methods for determining the predominant worldviews of the people in your world.**

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

…a mighty bold claim indeed! The Wakefield Doctrine can, in fact, predict the way that any given person will respond to common, everyday, life situations. With an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine, what is puzzling (and aggravating!) about the behavior of the people in our everyday lives becomes totally clear, (maybe still aggravating…but clear!)
While the Wakefield Doctrine is a very useful, insightful and revealing approach to a subject that is always on our minds, it is not such a serious, difficult-to-learn Personality Theory. Rather ‘the Doctrine’ is a fun way to know more about your friends and family members and neighbors than you ever thought possible. Here in this blog, there are pages listed that will explain each of the three personality types, but it is/are the Posts where the fun is meant to be found. All of these Posts are, in a sense, a long conversation about the Wakefield Doctrine, where it came from, what it says about personality types and human behavior…how to have fun with it.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that we all live in one of three characteristic realities: the world of the outsider (clark), the world of the predator (scott) or the world of the herd member (roger).
We have descriptions of the common behavior exhibited by the three personality types. The goal, however, is not just to match the behavior to the person and then stop. Rather we look for characteristic behavior, then infer (from that), the nature of the personal reality that the person is living in and then we know way all about that particular person. If we have correctly inferred the worldview of the person (as being the world of a clark or a scott or a roger) we can predict how that person will react to any situation!  Pretty cool, huh?

Enough of the knowledge, lets get to some of the fun!

(With apologies in advance to Jeff Foxworthy)

If you immediately stop surfing the channels because you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger

If you love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott

If you find a pamphlet stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.

Asked a question and you start your answer with “in the beginning…”  you might be a clark.

Someone gets your name wrong and you answer to it without correcting them… you might be a clark.

As a child building model cars, you made sure that the extra parts were put back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.

You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark

You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott

You think that the 107 episode, Directors-cut, 15 DVD, un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes, including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone (who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger

If you have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement, or any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.

You are at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including, but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.

If you are contemplating a project of any sort; building a deck for your house, writing a term paper or planting a garden:

…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark

…you must know what your friends on the, ‘do it yourself’  shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger

…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU ITS DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott

That will be quite enough for today. In conversations with the Progenitor roger and scott, I have maintained that the best new rock music is coming from the country guys… I wonder if Ronnie James knows that Jason Aldean seems to have appropriated a certain hand gesture…lol

 

* ok, clarks, we know, “We thought you just said ‘people’!”  ha ha We are people. Well, in a strict inferred sorta way, not ‘real’ people that way that rogers and scotts are real people.

** pro-tip… if you give into the temptation to simply describe to another person the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine:

• you’re talking to a clark… watch the eyes. If you’re close enough, look for a dilation of the pupils, see that and you’re explaining it correctly
• ya got yourself a scott, and it’s just the two of you… a smile is not such a good sign, a laugh, (without them shouting to any passersby to get over and listen to this) is not a bad thing… be careful if their attention, (the characteristic focus of the eyes of a scott) seems to falter and their smile fades…  this scott has a secondary clarklike aspect… be careful that they don’t think they’re being cornered…wouldn’t end well
• of course you know a roger… like with a Scott, (but for entirely different reasons), make it just the two of you… if they start asking you questions in a list-like format, back off, not enough that they think you’re getting upset, rather, go for an ‘Ok, I’m bored now, you’re clearly not interested’ and try to walk away. If anyone else comes into range of the two of you, walk faster.

I trust that will be helpful.