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

Pop Quiz:

You’re visiting a new friend’s house. As part of the tour, you walk into a workshop. Attached to the wall above the workbench is a pegboard. On the pegboard hang tools. Where a tool is missing, there is a silhouette neatly drawn in a high contrast ink.

Question: What is the predominant worldview of the owner/operator/occupant of this home feature? Reasons for your answer required.

• clark (Outsider) come on! enough with the softball questions already
• scott (Predator) hey! I wanna question of my own… this is fun
• roger (Herd Member) Not fair. It’s obvious what you’re going for and, we hate to be one to tell you this, but your underlying assumptions are off

Essai! Question for extra credit: Same scenario as above except:

the outlines are not a single lines, it’s more a relief kinda thing, like, say, one spray painted over the tool, leaving a negative image of non-painted surface.

Your tour guide (the spouse, presumedly) is silent. You have one question to ask them that they must answer honestly.

Essai Question: What is the predominant worldview of the spouse?

• Outsider (clark) smiling frantically
• Predator (scott) laughing
• Herd Member (roger) cringing slightly

there ya go!

Extra points²: what did you ask the putative spouse?

No looking at each other’s answer sheet.

Who said, Hey! How about a knee-jerk level demographically mandated music choice?

yeah, could get clever and go to MoTown or, even early ’60s but tonight is write a Six Night (Six Sentence Story bloghop) so lets go the easier ‘softer’ route.