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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a(n) additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. Comprised of three personality types: clarks (Outsiders), scotts (Predators) and rogers (Herd Members) it affords us of the opportunity to know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

(OK, we promise we have that (the photo above) out of our system.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is both tool and toy. Amusement and insight. An approach to self-improvement second to none.

(For our non-western-Oceania Readers, we are, of course, in the beginning of the week of one of the Big Three Holidays (as celebrated by everyone’s favorite personality theory)

The core tenet of the Doctrine being: we all are born with the potential to relate to the world from three perspectives, the aforementioned clark, scott and roger. For reasons not fully understood, we lock into one, (and only one), of these. Being very young at the time, we grow up, mature and develop our strategies/styles of social interaction against the context of these three personal realities.

The Wakefield Doctrine is gender, age, culture (and pretty much all other bio-psycho-social overlays) free. It’s all about the relationship we establish with life and such.

(But serially, of all the calendared occasions, nothing illustrates the predominant worldview, (aka personality type), of our Herd Member brethren better than Thanksgiving.

(Hell! What doesn’t it have? Prescribed menus, specific social diversions, decorations, hypocrisy, and… (surely there is one thing that manifests our crowdphilic friends most stark-(albeit music)-ly and that’s (…on one two three…) parades!)

With the perspective of an understanding of the nature and character of these three relationships, we are in a position to better be able to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.

New Readers: no, you  don’t get to say. “Hate to tell you this, but I’m, somehow all three.” We all have one predominant worldview. That said, some have a significant secondary and/or tertiary aspect. (Like those neon colored socks that you save for special occasions, or the big push at the end of an otherwise lackluster First Date.)

The Wakefield Doctrine is inherently selective for a certain level and quality of… the word ‘intelligence’ is almost what we mean. But not quite. Here, try this: we all have a friend (or plural) who appears successful. Smart, competent, knowledgeable. Until, that is the issue of perspective arises. For Doctrine purposes ‘perspective’ comes down to ‘imagine if the world is different from how you know it to be.’)

…they are simply unable to get past the “Yeah, sure. But reality is real. Those other people are either lying to themselves or they’re fucking with you. There’s only one real world.”

oh well. Not everyone’s footwear is made of a gemstone. ain’t no guarantee of a clicking sound and swirly vision.

Don’t feel bad about these people. They do, after all, constitute the bulk of the population. More than likely they are quite happy.

Whatever.

Like the Ancients would have said, “The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them,”

…alright!! who’s gonna dissect the sacrificial domestic fowl?