Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Thanks out to Misky for today’s Wakefield Doctrine AP Level Question!
Anyway, do animals sign on to the doctrine?
fer sure!
So. Animals and the Wakefield Doctrine.
Two useful elements: behavior and characteristic relationship
But first, lets get all ‘Old-School-Basic-Doctrine’:
“The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.”
The original context for this admonition came about early in this blog. A question, purely in the spirit of charity and giving, arose: “How can I use this Wakefield Doctrine to get my (fill-in blank: spouse/gf/bf/bff/teacher/local bully/perennial-victim-of aforementioned-bully or young Husky) to change?”
yep, the consensus response was… “You can’t. They can. However…..'”
lol
always a ‘However’ (which is so much more sophisticated, we-gave-this-response-a-lot-of-thought a hook than the more prosaic: ‘But…)
This brings us to the question manifesting as our topic today.
The answer? ‘You’ll have to ask them.’
But serially, everything in this Post is true, accurate (dogma-istically speaking) and useful.
But the secret answer is: any opportunity to practice seeing behavior manifesting in conformance with the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine (clarks/Outsiders, scotts/Predators and rogers/Herd Members) increases the efficacy of this personality theory in our efforts to know ‘how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up’.
Bonus Insight!!
Our oft-cited statement (above) of the value to learning and understanding ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’ is always accompanied by the reminder that we said ‘(to learn) how we relate ourselves’ and did not say ‘(to learn) how we relate to the world’ because the former makes it incumbent on us to assume our interpersonal behavior is not the sum of our own damn-selfs. And so, to know ourselves, we are better served to look within, rather than merely without.
ya know?
*un-asked question answer: well, sure, as a species, dogs do seem pretty darn scottian… but, (say it with us) ‘the Everything Rule insists that everyone does everything, at one time or another.
About clarkscottroger
Aww, so sweet!
I had a dachshund who was without doubt a Scott. She and I were buddies; she bullied my husband, and he’d have none of it, so they were at odds constantly. She adored both boys; she’d dart out the door into the fields, and the boys would chase after her. For such a small dog, she was amazing fast.
Then I had springer spaniel who was a Roger. She wanted her herd together, and was gloomy when one of us went missing. She always wanted to be near us. I think she was convinced that when I went to the shops, that I was lost and it was by some miracle that found my way back home eventually.
(as in post)…way to do your time in the language lab*
*Wakefield Doctrine language lab**
** is there still such a thing? language labs
Cats — I’ve seen clark-like cats, they overthink. Then there’s Link Linker the Stinker, who is 12 and still thinks he’s a kitten, he’s a scott. Dansig the Round was our roger.
yeah scott don’t get old, they just lose teeth and get a little slower…instincts totally there (but there! that’s the core concept of the Wakefield Doctrine! damn! with your approval will use your comment as Monday Post theme?
My last pair of pets were terrapins. I don’t know if they were scotts or rogers. One was definitely anti-social.
lol