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

So, sure, let’s address the matter of self-improving oneself with the aid the Wakefield Doctrine.

On third thought, what say we read words that were, at the time, perfectly good words to convey the notion that since we have the potential to experience the world in one of three ways, i.e. as an Outsider (clark), Predator (scott) or Herd Member (roger), we already know the answer.

(Extra credit to the clark who just said, “Well, duh.”)

(Extra, extra credit to the clarks who turned to the other Readers and, laughing said, “You’re not fooled, right? This is an outdated answer to the question of self-improving ourselfs. It’s not a ‘potential to experience the world (a certain way)’, it’s the willingness to change our fricken’ relationship to the world around us.’)

(Being a wise, and, we might add, very definitely not unreliable Narrator, we hasten to add… “Sure! Go get in ever one’s face and be all aggressive and such, like any good scott would. But don’t forget the simple fact: they have practiced all they lives to be a Predator. After all, anyone one with the money and the space in their homes can buy a Marshall stack and a Strat and try and play some Hendrix….” We will not insult the putative intelligence of our Readers by going into an explicit description of the outcome of this endeavor.)

Are we saying, ‘Don’t bother, you can never be an effective (fill in the blank for one of the other two relationships with the world around you)?

Kinda

But…but!! The whole thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is, first and foremost, to encourage and nurture acceptance of the notion that all reality is personal. And if there is any lesson every pre-adolescent child learns and almost always forgets: two of (this pre-adolescent child’s friends) see and live in the world different from the one they were bequeathed by the parents and family unit.

Sorry, had to get a little ’round about in that last section. It’s ok, Readers, you can look on the answer sheets of your neighbor. The one not trying to hide their answers and the one not holding them up… the clarks.

awright! dodged another guilt round in the live action, role-play call Real Life.