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

Just between you and us, (and your Alexa), these reprint posts are more than easy content, aka reruns. We’re enjoying them despite…or perhaps, because of our being the writer*. This is testament to the efficacy of the Doctrine as a tool to self-improve oneself, as I read and think, ‘Hey! Who are these people, they’re kinda fun.”

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

Break Time!!  Yeah, we know what you’re thinking,* “Hey! Enough of the heavy introspection already!  We came here for a break from our daily routines, ya know? The Wakefield Doctrine advertises itself as being a personality theory that’s unique, useful and fun.  Lets see some of that fun!”

Well, we all know that if it’s fun you’re after, (and you’re not concerned with the price), there’s only one worldview to go to… the scottian worldview. scotts!!!  (‘Say it baritone and you can hear the police sirens wailing, say it contralto and you’ll surely be praying‘).

We all have a scottian friend. There’s currently a TV commercial for Las Vegas and is premised on that guy, the one we all knew growing up who always had to push it. To go a bit faster, to take a bit more of a risk than is absolutely necessary. juvenile detention facilities structure their business models on the young scottian males’ natural proclivity for anticipating consequences.

And….and! lets not forget that the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral! (ya gotta admit, in most cultures, the male is permitted a greater latitude in (their) choices of expression of drives and instincts and such). The scottian personality type is that of the predator and so they pretty high on the aggressiveness and impulsivity of action. if you are female, in most cultures, they’ll frown upon you going around arm wrestling, punching your subordinates on the shoulder and saying ‘fuck!’ a lot. Fortunately for you, (the scottian female), there are ….alternative forms of expression).

if you’re a clark you have always had a scottian friend, if you’re a roger you have never been able to avoid having a scottian friend and if you are a scott you’ve known of other scotts in your life.  you know them because as a scott:

• they must establish ‘ranking’ in any and every social environment… you will spot the scott because they will alway first ‘work the room’, going from person to person, small group to small group and push everyone on the shoulder (literally and/or figuratively), by doing this they will establish their place in rank
• they will command attention (or better, for the sake of the rogers) they will simply assume dominance
• in conversational style: a clark will listen to you talk, a roger will let you talk…a scott will make you talk
• females will be identified as ‘tomboys’ early in life (‘from ages 5 to breasts’); with puberty, scottian females come into their own… (short form: most cultures do not permit the female members expressing aggressiveness physically)
• you will have a clarklike friend, who you will consider a friend because they  do not act like prey nor do they act like as another scott
• they will be total pushovers for a person who appreciates their mind ( in males it is best to admire their creativity… in females anything not involving their bodies will work  lol)
• in social conflicts, as in dog training, to feel fear is to admit defeat
• they are mercurial in temperament and loyal to friends and ferocious as adversaries

But they’re fun! It is easy to say, ‘hey of course we like scotts! they’re active and like to do things and are entertaining. whats not to like?’  True. But, this being the Wakefield Doctrine, we owe to ourselves to look a little deeper.

scotts are impulsive …and this appeals to us, albeit on an unconscious level, they live in the here and now!  (you remember the tale of the fiddle playing grasshopper?? tell me that, before you got to the ‘oh-so-correct-and-this-is-how-you-should-live-your-live sledge hammer ending…. tell me that you didn’t think of the grasshopper as the ‘good guy’! to varying degrees, we all would like to believe that, all we need do is throw off the cares and responsibility and life could be so much more….  and that’s true.

scotts are certain…  and this is why they are ‘natural leaders’… (the Doctrine saying is) ‘scotts are frequently wrong, never uncertain’.  people all too often equate certainty with wisdom

scotts represent what any of us would demonstrate as a ‘personality type’ if we found ourselves in the reality of the predator at a very early age and had to develop coping skills and strategies

scotts are attractive and aggravating, they are natural showmen/show-women, they see the audience as would a hungry lion a pack of gazelles  …

in the history of Man:  scotts are the conquerors, the explorers,  they are Alexander the Great (but not Julius Caesar) they are Genghis Khan (but not Charlemagne)  they are George Patton (but not Dwight Eisenhower)  scotts are cops but not firefighters….scotts are surgeons but not physicians … scotts are prima ballerinas but not Rockettes  …scotts are leaders but not Rulers

If you have made it this far…this is the link to the page on scotts

Hey want to see a scott in action?  watch this here video…everything you need to know about how to recognize a scott (there’s Robert DeNiro as the clark and some other guy as the roger).

 

 

* well duh!  this is the Wakefield Doctrine!

* New Reader: it remains our position that we’re the curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, as opposed to the creator. While the context of the explanation and descriptions of the principles of said personality theory are personal, the core Doctrine was discovered as opposed to created. As a matter of fact, the entire Wakefield Doctrine grew out of a ten minute interaction between the progenitor scott and a forever un-named person, back in 1982(ish)

Don’t believe it? Find a clark and ask them. They will attest to the fact that, given the core principles, they are able to extrapolate and continue the Doctrine without further imput from us. Lizzi and Cynthia, second generation FOTD demonstrated that. Go ask them.