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

What the hell?!!

Holy smoke!

Stop the presses.

Calling all clarks!

New Readers: You should know that the goal of these daily posts is to present the Wakefield Doctrine to the world at large. The principles and practices, set forth for all who stumble upon our little corner of the blogosphere, ideally in an engaging, if not entertaining manner. The three personality types (clarks/Outsider, scotts/Predator and rogers/Herd Members) described both on the basis of theory and in a context of the daily life we live. This last accomplished two tasks: 1) make familiar the overt characteristics of each of the three and b) show how the predominant worldview (of each) will serve as a predictor of behavior in, well, pretty much any situation.

But there are time when we encounter a manifestation of the value of the Doctrine and it’s kinda on the far edge of insight. After all, your take-home assignment at the end of your first college physics class is not: Find an atom, split it and note effects.

(Despite what a clark in said class might hope for)

Just thought, if this is your first exposure to the Wakefield Doctrine, you might want to search the old posts for something like: Three Personalities Accounting for Every Person, Say What Now? (or any other search criteria) Have fun.

So, in our car radio is a saved station… no, serially, it’s a Saved! station. 91.1fm For lack of a better word, a Preacher Station. Each hour a different preacher/pastor/minister, from whatever channel/website/utube/part of the country, we get to hear an episode. Primarily old-school, semi-fundamental stuff. Heavy on the Old Testament but not averse to the New Testament.

OK. Fine. The answer to your question? We enjoy listening to skilled (and not-so-skilled) salesmen makin’ their pitch. Especially the scottian guys. They make you sit up and pay attention. Short declarative sentences. (Listen now…). Fun. Naturally there are (well, actually the majority) are rogers. Like their writing, they tend to be smooth, employing rounded words and easy transitions. And, being rogers, they rely on referential authority. (So if a body really wanted to follow along, a roger be all about Acts 9-40 or Paul 69-2.) There are occaisonal clarks on the daily schedule but you have to listen for them. Laid back is what we’re saying. Not so much on the: Listen up now’ or the ‘You will suffer the torments of the damned if you don’t simply declare your…’

Anyway… this AP Doctrine post isn’t about our radio station playlists.

It’s about total-fricken-make-you*-laugh-in-delighted-shock cognitive dissonance.

In the gap between half-hour shows they sometimes run little showlettes.

First and essential to this experience, a little setup. Everyone remembers Miss Bonnie (or whatever name used by the female host) on your local version of Romper Room School. Or… who’s that chick with the sock puppet, Lambchop. Shari Lewis! That’s her. Or the one on Mister Roger’s Neighborhood, Princess Somebody. Or…if you watched ‘Lucifer’, towards the end of the series they did a Eve character as part of a season. Her voice. Lower-pitched (but not Brenda Vacarro  sultry). A caring, slow paced voice. Not a scottian female or rogerian woman. Pretty much a clarklike female talking seriously and lovingly as to a child.

Got it?

So, driving in  our car early this morning. We hear a woman say,

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

Two words: Aii-fricken-yeee

Can you say Patriarchy exposed in an uncomplimentary manner? We knew you could.

lol

Will follow-up

*provided you a clark, a course

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