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

back to ‘work’

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. It, (the Doctrine, not the people, hell, not the world, for that matter), proposes that, in service to the ambition to categorize personality, the relationship a person has with the world (around them) is the key to an insight that none of the others can offer.

In the Wakefield Doctrine we have three predominant worldviews, aka personality types. They are:

1. clarks (the Outsider)
2. scotts (the Predator)
3. rogers (the Herd Member)

In more mainstream schema, there is a list of characteristic...characteristics (lol), or, if one is in a more formal frame of mind: drives to, tropisms towards or a bunch of letters from the alphabet.

Whatever.

Here’s the thing: imagine you find your young, (very young) self to be what you can only describe to yourself as being an Outsider. Those around you, (most likely immediate family, but maybe institutional personal, social workers, nuns or wolves), seem to know what’s going on. Wait. Hold on to that assumption.

It’s not that they know whats going on in a realtime, literal sense. No, it’s more that they appear to know each other. At very least, (to keep this Monday post under 1202 words), they (these others) share a common belonging. Worse, they give all indications of sharing a collective knowledge of procedure, in the sense of social order. They know they belong. (Major Hint right there).

What do you do?

That is the underlying rationale of the Wakefield Doctrine. What you do in the above scenario is, of course, learn, (as quickly as possible), what they’ve been taught that you’ve somehow missed (or… advanced concept here ‘you weren’t taught’) i.e. how to get along, fit in and/or simply survive long enough to figure out how the game is played.

New Readers! This has been an example using one of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. Comparable scenaria can be constructed for the other two.

Fine. Monday assignment completo

oh… oh (yeah, old Readers? you can do an Arnold Horshack in your head if you choose)

The Doctrine says a couple of other things.

You form one predominant worldview as your ‘personality type’. The other two remain as potential potentials (lol) But you do not get to be a ‘a combination of…’

Also? The following: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them’  the Doctrine is gender, age and culture neutral’ and finally (ish) ‘there is no good or bad predominant worldview’ (but there is something called ‘the Everything Rule’ so do your Reading!)

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