Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and roger)
you do know that the three predominant worldviews (personality types to the incognescentae) are, in a certain view, three aspects of an idealized person, don’t you?
[the Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age, culture neutral if for no other reason than the basis for the entire thing is the character/nature of a person’s relationship to the world around them]the three predominant worldviews are:
- clarks(the Outsider)
- scotts(the Predator)
- rogers(the Herd Member)
We thought you did. That’s good. (If for no other reason than the fact the Wakefield Doctrine is a question, not ‘the Answer’)
The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.
We are all born with the capacity to experience the world from the perspective inherent in that of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers). At a very early age we settle into one of the three. While we never lose the potential of experiencing the world as do, ‘the other two remaining worldviews’, our personal reality become that of one and only one. We grow up and develop strategies for: living with others, depending on them, being depended upon by them, in other words, the life of a social being.
The Doctrine maintains that our styles of interacting with others, aka personality types, are the product of character of the world as we experience it. Such being the case, we maintain that everyone develops the perfect personality type (in the context of their personal reality).
[The overall goal, ‘the Return’ if you will, on investing the time and energy in acquiring the additional perspective that the Wakefield Doctrine offers, is to better appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us. (Note: that was ‘…how we relate ourselves to the world’, not ‘…how we relate to the world’. Big-assed difference there.] [A secondary benefit is to allow ourselfs to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. Which, in turn, puts us in a position to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.]But, you’re correct. The title at the top of this post does include: RePrint.
So here ya go. From way… way ago.
time for another Post already?! oh man, no f*ckin way can I keep this up
October 6, 2009
OK. I have it together now. No need to get excited. Just sit here, clear the mind, the content is in there. Just relax.
My compliments to any of you out there who have maintained an active blog for more than 3 months. Jesus, this coming up with Posts all the time is not as easy as it looks. And this from the perspective of ‘as long as there is a new Post once a week’ blogholder. But no one is holding a gun to my head… (‘hey theres an idea for a Post!)
SOMEONE IS HOLDING A GUN TO MY….
Sorry, forget it. Sure one of the 103,000,000 blog authors in the world today has already done the definitive, ‘Someone is holding a gun to my head’ treatment. Maybe there are some studies that I can cut and paste and fill up some of this white space and then I can call it a day and get back to my real life!
Alright, seriously now. I do mean my compliment to those of you who have the ability and talent (acquired or learned) to write something new and different and sometimes even interesting, Post after Post after Post/blog after blog after blog. Not bad. But since I am not ready to give up on this little blog of mine, I had better t t try to get it together and come up with a Post that will keep the crowdlette coming back for more.
Being that this is the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) I would do well to keep to the subject that I know best. (See? Right there! I don’t know much about grammar and good writing and all, but that last sentence had at least two tenses, and easily three pulperfects in it. Man, this is worse than the first time I recorded myself playing guitar along with Jimi Hendrix. Suffice it to say, if you were there you would not have had too much trouble telling us apart.)
This writing and grammar thing is really starting to annoy me. It is bad enough that I regret now that I did not take a typing class when I was in high school. (At my current age, in my high school years Typing Class was for people taking a Business curriculum, which meant you were going to be a secretary which meant you were a girl. That simple, end of cultural subtext). But with this damn blogging thing, I am being forced to confront the fact that I do not have mad writing skills. I should have paid attention in my English classes. (Look, it was the 60s when I was in high school, how cool is that?) But the inescapable fact remains that the skill set I would value the most this October morning is not how to play the opening riff of ‘Sunshine of Your Love’. Its funny about how people, at least in the current (american) culture, we seem to have an expectation to be able to do certain things well, just because we think we can do them at all. By this I mean singing and writing. Most of us know that we can sing our favorite song in the car, on the way to work, therefore I think we all equate that with being a singer. Writing, the same. I can, with the help of spellcheck and a lot of proof reading, write a report at work, so how hard can it be to be a writer?
(I have resisted the impulse to hit Preview to see if I’m down far enough on this page to call it a day.) But anyway, you are here because you want to know all about the Wakefield Doctrine. Right?
The Wakefield Doctrine will cause you to see the world in a slightly different manner. Nothing earth-shaking, no flashes of light; ‘oh my god I understand now’ will not be on your lips. What will happen if you read most of this blog and the associated pages will be that you might find yourself saying, ‘that person is such a roger‘, or you might find yourself thinking, ‘here comes so-an-so what a scott he is’ or you could think, ‘shit, I’ll bet I’m one of those clarks the Doctrine is talking about.’
If this happens to you, I have succeeded. If it does not then I have failed. If you have a question about the Doctrine, leave a Comment or email or whatever the hell people do around here. I will get back to you as soon as I finish my Adult Education class, “You too Can Write Like The Prose’, that I am taking at my little local high school
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About clarkscottroger
Trust me, i know better than to sing in public!
lol
..having difficulty with the math…2009. Damn.
I’m very appreciative of having the “additional perspective”.
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