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

Yesterday’s post got us thinkin’, ‘Sure, we get how the Wakefield Doctrine is gender and age and culture neutral. Makes sense in today’s modern, oppositional (sometimes for the sake of being oppositional, i.e. rogerian) world. Why belabor the point?’

…because, by focusing on what the Wakefield Doctrine isn’t, we can more better appreciate what it is. You know, like splitting the atom… or the check or just stopping your desperate no-hope-other-than-to-stay-in-the-familiar-present arguments. When the variables are least, the opportunity to willfully not-understand is as small as it will ever be. Like when you were a little tiny kid and the world was the living room, your bed, the bathroom and through the windows of the family car or hand-me-down stroller. We were all, like, little baby-Adams. The unknown was unknown because we either were not told names or had not yet had a chance to make one up.

…. to the point of today’s Post.

Especially gender. Seeing how that can be the second most fundamental distinction available in human experience, its the best place to start with our literal distinction. As we’re reminded:

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
~Acts 8:30-31

Yeah, in best rogerian writing tradition, there can only be one protagonist, ever one else is in a supporting role. the ‘he’? Best we can tell, some Ethiopian.

But the point is useful. Sometimes it helps to have someone to explain it to us.

Except, this is the Wakefield Doctrine. Guidelines? sure. Examples of limitations and specific interpretations? Why the heck not! We’re all interested in the same thing, right? Employing the perspective afforded those willing to imagine the Wakefield Doctrine is an actual theory of personality and using it to better understand how the other person is experiencing the world.

Back to the gender thing.

The Wakefield Doctrine is about Being A and the world around them and the people (or all sorts) that make it up.

This viewpoint is reinforced or, vice-versa, by the fact that each of the three predominant worldviews are simply, three distinct relationships. Not a list of traits, not a schedule of drives and tropisms, not even a preference-bias for: blue, Bach and getting caught out in the rain. Nope! None of these things. Simplest put:

1. the Outsider (clarks)
2. the Predator (scotts)
3. the Herd Member (rogers)

all ya gotta do is imagine how a lifeform experiences the world from the perspective of these three relationships and you are working the Doctrine.

Never forget: the Doctrine is for you and not them.

just to see how determined you are to assimilate this tool, we offer the following vid (without comment or advice) your reaction will tell an experienced practitioner of the Wakefield Doctrine everything about not only your predominant worldview but your secondary and tertiary aspects.

As we used enjoy writing and/or saying, “Understanding the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will put you in the position of knowing more about the other person than you have any right to know.”

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