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

Quiet, please. Quiet. A Tuesday post. (a modest reflection on the Doctrine, a view of the familiar through eyes of the jaded; eschewing the repetition, lets see what we can do this grey September morn.)

Nothing earth-shattering in terms of novel-insights, transcendent descriptions or instantly convincing explanations of the working (and workings) of everyone’s favorite personality theory.

The Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on three characteristic relationships a person has with the world around them (and the people who make it up*). These are the relationship of (the):

• clark (Outsider) as in, not a part of, something missing, don’t give yourself away or something bad might happen, the answer is information you missed very early on in life but if you can uncover it (without the people around you discovering your deficiency then there is a chance you can become a ‘real’ person
• scott (Predator) lets go! screw the intellectual, subjective crap… when the last time the abstract imaginary world done anything for you? the minute you take your eyes off the world around you is the second you stumble and starve or trip and be over-come by the one coming up in your rearview
• roger (Herd Member) sequence is everything how the hell can there be a Right Way if the sequence of action (or information (or process)) gets all jumbled-up You can’t Offer the Proper Life to anyone if it keeps changing, now can you?

* that ‘people who make it up‘ thing? heavy borrow from Castaneda and TA (no, scott! Transactional Analysis…known, back in grad school days simply as ta). What we take from both is that one way to view reality is as a story. We’re, all of us, silent Narrators of the story of Us and the World. And, despite the provocative ‘silent’ thing, we all, to varying degrees, are aware of the stories of those around us. And…and! As we hear the story from others, we are telling our own stories to everyone we encounter.

ok, so, sure, nothing radical or weird there.  lol, hello clarks! don’t worry scotts and rogers with out-sized secondary clarklike aspects, it’s ok. nothing here that will usurp or upset the dominance of your predominant worldview, just a touch of  ‘additional perspective’.