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

Last week we were looking at the Wakefield Doctrine (or, more properly, the perspective afforded by it) as a foreign language. Well, more to the point, as if it were the language of a non-native country that you found yourself waking up into without any knowledge of getting there or the means by which this transport was achieved.

Damn! Horror and Ecstasy Singularity!

New Readers? Today’s post has become one directed, pretty much solely at the clarks out there. Not to worry. There’s something you should know about the Wakefield Doctrine. The primary value of our little personality theory lies in both the reason it exists and the reason it is such an efficacious-frickin tool for self-improvement, to wit: ‘You can’t get it wrong, you can’t break it and you don’t have to learn it, you need only allow yourselfs to recognize it.’

wait?!! what? Which of you in the amorphous cloud of clarks, (conforming to the shape of the rooms that we move through, assuring both maximum proximity to the center while never getting more than an invisible step out the door) just said: “Doesn’t that sound like the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine? And, since I/we have been granted quotation marks, why is there never an UnReliable Narrator in these little speachlettes?”

Allow us to retort*

That would be a reasonable insight. About the statement in the first sentence directed to New Readers. That quote is a (Hey! New word for your Faithful Curator!) ‘pleonasm’.

Back to the business of how anyone with the desire can ‘get’ and apply the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to their advantage today.

(Just was thinking: ‘More instructions? On the best method or simply provide examples of observations?)

Here’s an simple statement:

scotts and rogers have zero percieved need for the Wakefield Doctrine (or anything like it). clarks do. In fact, the thing about our little personality theory is that the people who ‘get it’ are not all, omg! what a new take, seminal statement, sheer genius!… no. we (clarks or scotts/rogers with a way significant secondary clarklike aspect) on encoutering this thing of ours are: ‘Yeah. That makes sense. Reminds me of the stuff I thought about when I was a kid alone/growing up where something critical was missing/at work yesterday. Cool’

We recognize the Doctrine like a lost twin/half a duprass/punchline to our favorite joke. We don’t really need to learn it. We now have a new vocabulary to help us navigate the strange world we woke up to, one morning when we were too young to know why, but old enough to know not to insist that the people around us explain it.

Anyway, getting off-track. Yes there is a commonality in the statement that correlates to the three predominant worldviews. We’ll leave it as extra credit for anyone wishing to explore it as independent study.

* courtsey of the writer of the screenplay of ‘Pulp Fiction’ and the Department of Redundancy Department…and the Natural Guard**.

** you’ll need to be old or a clark to uncover the source of this quote (hint: Firesign Theatre)