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

Show of ‘hands’.

New Content?

RePrint post (…from the Golden Age of Doctrine posts)?

New…Golden Age… new…

OK! The Hands have it!

We’ll start with a couple of Doctrine ProTips and then find some post that takes us out to three-four hunnert words.

Doctrine ProTip
Primus

New Readers: ‘Warning! Warning. If you persist in ‘learning’ the fundamentals of the Wakefield Doctrine to a sufficient degree, you will be in a position to ‘see’ the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday life. No! Wait… that’s not the Warning! part. The Warning! part is that once you’ve gotten to this point of establishing the Wakefield Doctrine as an alternative perspective on the world around you (and the people who make it up)… you  will not be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world.

ed. we feel better now. that’s the responsible thing to do with New Readers.

How about a really fun and practical insight into the world of a Doctrine neophyte?

Doctrine ProTip
Secundus

Ask someone, anyone* the following Question:

How Much is Two plus Two?

Spoiler Alert: In the case of one of the three** you’ll recognize their predominant worldview as soon as they answer.

…Out of time y’all. Sorry, we’ll keep that RePrint on hold.

Remember! Tell a clarklike friend to come and visit us here at the Wakefield Doctrine blog.

* as you learn this here Doctine here, your first extrapolation of the principles will likely be the insight that, of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, aka the personality types, the person you try this on will define themselves by the initial response to your efforts. As in, ‘Jeez! Come on! This isn’t a trick question…roger

** the three predominant worldviews:

1. the Outside (clarks) arm’s length (in a subtle, polite but remarkably strong way) people you already know (or are)… they won’t get mad. Unless they do (Hint: only because you’re being kind of a jerk about it) and then…well, you’ll never see them leaving
2. the Predator (scotts) not so much ‘in your face’… well, ok, in your face, but mostly in a fun and amusing way… kinda like walking down a city sidewalk or in a crowded social gathering and getting your pocket picked by an extraordinarily attractive man/woman.
3. the Herd Member (rogers) they’re all around you! no, wait, if you’re new here that is not helpful. they’re all around you, which, as a clark you immediately think of the map of Canada***… if you’re a scott you’ll lick your metaphorical (or non-metaphorical) lips… smorgasbord heaven is all this is… or a roger yourself ‘What crowd, this is the Real World.’

*** the country, per Wikipedia with the most shoreline… ha ha