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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

The core premise is that we, all of us, are born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic ways, as does the:

• Outsider (clarks)
• Predator (scotts)
• Herd Member (rogers)

… interrupted by an unsuccessful word-verification search. Will continue tomorrow on the subject of the Wakefield Doctrine in which we clearly outline…

SPOILER ALERT!!! We will be saying that personality types in the context of the Doctrine is, in the simplest of terms, the best adaptation to reality as experienced by the individual. There are three characteristic relationships (above bullet points) everything else is in appreciating how we relate ourselves to the world around us and remembering that what the other person is experiencing might very well be different from what we see. So, in a sense, the value of the Doctrine lies in it’s capacity as a translator! (Also: we grow up and live in one and only one of three, though we might enjoy certain benefits of the innate capacity offered by ‘the other two’ worldviews.)

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“want to know the most dangerous, toxic, corrosive word used by a clark?” …the Wakefield Doctrine (‘publish or perish, yo’)

May 30, 2013

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

 

Well, do you?

Well, before we get into what that word is, about today’s video Post.  Pretty good, right?  You will be Commenting in the form of a video (though audio is acceptable), won’t you?  To reinforce the ‘message’ of the video Post, we are totally serious about the fact that when we talk about personal realities we mean real…. reality. Not… “well I feel like yelling out during a movie!” or ” I think you look great in that dress and no one will notice your complexion, believe me”  or even  ” I really will work hard on getting a job, it will all work out for the best.”

We’ll revisit this aspect of the Wakefield Doctrine more frequently going forward, as we now have Considerer and Michele and (the others) asking the hard questions.

So the word.

It’s an innocent enough word. More than innocent, this word is often considered to be one of positive meaning and intent, a hopeful word, an optimistic word. But as a loan shark is to your local bank, the price of the loan is always higher than the value secured.
The word is ‘maybe’.
In the hands (or on the tongues) of clarks, the word is meant well. “It is a good job, maybe I’ll get it“. Perhaps because, when clarks look at the world we see people and institutions, groups and family members who, while certainly not intending us harm, (they all) clearly know something that we don’t know. “Maybe I don’t want to be a doctor, maybe I really want to find my own way”. The words we use when describing the world we find ourselves in, are  picked with the hope of blending in, looking to be a member or, one of the guys/one of the girls. “I think I should ask her out, maybe I’ll wait until a better time” “How many times do we have to discuss this, maybe next time you’ll listen to me”

Not really sure what it was that struck me about the use of the word ‘maybe’, it just seems that it has a certain resonance when employed by clarks. It is a word that lets us ‘commit without committing’, a word designed to insulate us from disappointment. clarks fear disappointment almost as much as we fear fear. More in a way. Fear can be run from. Disappointment is a sentence of reduced possibility. And if clarks are anything, we are people who believe that having possibilities is the difference between a possibly happy life and a life where we still have options. In a sense, as long as we have the possibility (of something) there is hope.  Maybe.

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sorry to off-load an earworm this early in the week, but one strategy, (horrifyingly characteristic of the twisted social mentality of too large a percentage of mankind), is to share it. misery, as we all know, is always down for a par-tay!