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

To paraphrase V. Lombardi, “Readers? This is a mug.”

One of the thirteen Natural Wonders of the Wakefield Doctrine world? One word: groups of men riding bicycles along roads and streets formerly designated: ‘Cars only, and, ok, trucks as well‘.

Like the old saying goes: If we didn’t already have a theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, we could discover one of the three, (Ok, Who just yelled out, “Two! We could recreate two predominant worldviews’. Extra points and a nod of respect), just from the passing of a group of serious, recreational bicyclists.

rogers, rogers, rogers the Wakefield Doctrine (there are three personality types, ya know)

September 25, 2013

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

Today’s Post is for our more Advanced Readers.

Today’s Post contains an example of one of those moments, when the work you have put into learning the characteristics of the three worldviews pays off…  I want you to know that we appreciate how difficult it can be to hold the characteristics in your head, going through your day, hoping to observe the people in your world demonstrate the personality traits that we talk about in this blog,  only to have things ‘click’ 15 minutes after you leave the supermarket checkout line where the girl at the register, (who seemed quite attractive, even with the piercings and the tattoo and the streak of purple in her hair), said something that made you laugh and you can’t for the life of you remember exactly what she said…. we know how there are people in your family who come to mind after you read a Post and you’re pretty sure you know which of the three personality types they are, but you forget which is the weird one and which is the man-eater and which is the pain in the ass…

• clarks are the personality types that make perfect sense if you imagine you grew up being the Outsider, never having the most basic of beliefs, i.e. that you belong, that you are just like everyone else and instead you ‘knew’ that you missed learning something that everyone else learned and that all you had to do is discover what that information is and then you would be accepted, but until then you really had better not be too obvious how … ‘not the same‘ you really are or something bad might happen
• scotts who, if you forget that they are your husband (‘he can be so kind, sometimes he has trouble with his anger’) or your boss (‘…funny stories, will totally ‘go to bat for you’…just wish he didn’t get so off-color sometimes’) or your neighbor  (‘she has her family so organized… if you need to leave the kids on short notice she is the first to help…but the way she acts around your husband, if you didn’t know him better’), are understandable if you watch how predators (lions and tigers and dogs, oh my!) act on those nature shows… mercurial and enthusiastic, impulsive and helpful they are living examples of ‘live life for the day’
• rogers… the glue of human society, the flypaper of human potential… (lol  a joke that strikes me funnier than it probably is, but it’s 2:12 am and experience tells us that many things at 2:12 am are funnier and sometimes scarier than they are in the day world.) rogers are the personality type that results from knowing that you are a part of the group, the herd; rogers are the personality type that live for tradition and connections and they are the person who is reliable and inflexible, precise and narrow-minded, kind and bigoted, this is the personality type that the following commercial is meant for:

So watch and smile or laugh or scratch your head and say (to yourself ) ‘I guess I missed something, I don’t see the humor’  (or) ‘of course!’  (or) ‘frickin rogers!’

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