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

Quick little follow-up on yesterday’s fun* Post.

Warning: You must be ‘This Old’ to appreciate the sublime and sophisticated humor.

There was a time when cameras were as delayed a gratification as a junior high school clark at his/her first sock hop. Hey! Not-old(ish) Readers! Seriously, we’re talking about ‘Mr Van Gogh, I would commission a portrait of my wife. I’m willing to pay extra if you can deliver it before her fourteenth birthday. There’s a good fellow.”

Where were we?

Ah yes. Camera and tape recorders, circa 1960s.

Back to our three predominant worldviews:

• clarks (Outsiders) portable tape recorders? like holy water-soaked, garlic crucifixes! They (clarks) simply leave the room.
• scotts (Predators) “gimme that mic! thank, thank you very much for coming! And you, what’s your name darlin’?”
• rogers (the Herd Members) “…and, with batteries, you can put these anywhere? hmmm”

New Readers: this topic lends itself quite readily to a discussion of secondary (and tertiary) aspects. We all are of one (and only one) predominant worldview, i.e. the character of the personal reality we experience. We retain the capacity to see the world through the eyes of the ‘other two’, non-predominant worldviews. This is not, however, an A B switch situation, It does not allow one to “I invoke my scottian aspect. I am a scott!” No. It doesn’t work that way. Try it (and most clarks have) and, at best, you’re a roger pretending to be a scott or a clark trying to be… you get the idea. You are a clark, scott or roger because you have spent your life practicing a certain style of interacting with the world predicated on the world as you experience it.

But that’s a topic for a whole other post. The thing about secondary aspects is that they are, (most often), manifested when a person is dealing with something very important (to them) or they are emotionally invested in. So, as Curator, we will use ourselfs¹ as illustration. Besides the writing in public (funny story about our first post… another time perhaps) there are the videos.

clark :: videos:  total adolescent boy and adolescent girl

that’s it for today!

1. clark. strong** secondary scottian aspect. weak tertiary rogerian aspect

* no less an authority on ‘fun’ than Misky

** secondary (and tertiary aspects are not equal for all individuals. our tertiary rogerian aspect is barely there, secondary scottian… another matter