Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
As promised!
‘Debt of gratitude’
(Damn! Slight divergence* from our jumping off point. A quick refresher: the Everything Rule i.e. ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’.)
ok, now you, the Reader, know what we know.
Review: ‘to discover an artifact’ refers to those moments when observing ‘the other two’ and we suddenly, (if not serendipitously), infer the existence of a dynamic quality that is deeper, (in the individual), than the Doctrine’s description of the three predominant worldviews normally permits. Text book example: the discovery of ‘referential authority’ which is the tendency of Herd Member to cite an external source of power prior to attempting to assert their will. In the first such example here, it was the response of rogers to a hypothetical action on the part of a character in a fiction; way more emotional than one would otherwise expect.
Back to yesterday‘s carry-over topic: ‘Whats the deal with the expression ‘a debt of gratitude’?
We would maintain that the debt in ‘a debt of gratitude’ is a rogerian construct. That it is, in fact, the glue of the most common of social gatherings, the Herd**
*** We Interrupt our discourse with this ‘How fricken fun is this Doctrine?’***
So, when the dissonance of the the ‘debt of gratitude’ struck us yesterday, we (correctly) sensed that the function, compared to the other two, was strongest in our Herd Member friends. Then, Denise weighed in with a comment that, in part, affirmed: ‘For those in the reality of the Outsider, that is a true statement, re: framing as debt.‘
Which, of course, tripped ever alarm in our heads. lol
We were focused on the noun! Denise reminds us that some words are verbs. And, when it comes to understanding the personal realities of the people in our lifes, we better not forget that reality is made up of both!
with a little typeage, we can arrive at:
- clarks accept (a) debt of gratitude to the world around them and the people who make it up
- rogers insist on (a) debt of gratitude from the world around them and the people who make it up
- scotts don’t mind (a) debt of gratitude as a Saturday-Night-Club-Stamp on a rainy night and doesn’t have time to check how permanent the ink is
Like we said, ‘The Wakefield Doctrine! How fascinating, entertaining and valuable is this theory of clarks, scotts and rogers thing… who’d a thought understanding how the other person is experiencing the world could be so much fun!
PS there is an underlying principle to what the Wakefield Doctrine encourages for those who gather here, the opportunity to engage in identification, i.e. non-transactional interaction. But that’s for another post.
* une petite rogerian expression
** New Readers? there are three ‘personality types’:
- clarks (the Outsider)
- scotts (the Predator)
- rogers (the Herd Member)
multiples: chance-and-random gatherings, packs and herds
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