Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
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…on three
Thanks out to Misky. She called heads and we flipped our specially-minted Schrödinger twenty-five cent piece and…
So, yesterday (and the day before, in spirit if not in fact) a discussion sprang into life as a result of Misky’s Comment:
…which leads me to wonder about metaphorical ‘appetite’ like an appetite for learning, or adventure, risk, life, speed, etc. and whether those appetites fall under a scottian umbrella. I’m mostly thinking to myself here because I’m leaning toward ‘yes, yes they do.’
To which we replied:
the fun of using behavioral metaphors (as in the Wakefield Doctrine) is that it is predicated on a person having ‘an ear’ (not musical sound but for rhetoric and rhetorical deviceseses) of course the scottian predominant worldview (relating to the world as would a Predator) includes the unrestrained appetite… especially when in contrast with the price humankind pays in terms of the conveniences of modern culture… (rhymes with rogerian)
does that mean that scotts have to have the unsubtle appetite of a lion on the savannah with a pack to provide for?
yes. yes it does!
lolthe fun and value of metaphors is (imo): life and reality being but a serial story… metaphor is developed to allow insight beyond a culture’s current vocabulary (or would that be glossary? whatevs) so metaphor is both language, writing pad, pencil and big-assed eraser (the good kind, the blond, squarish slightly crumbly type that all grade school kids wanted and rarely had)…
ya know?
So, now that we’ve had a Reader step up and break the ice on Self-Conscious Pond, would anyone else care to offer an insight/opinion/guess/conjecture or ‘what-it-this’?
If this helps: the Wakefield Doctrine insists on two things:
- there are three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) they (all three) are a function of the character of the relationship a person maintains with the world around them starting at the youngest of ages. We all grow up and develop our style/strategy for interacting with the world as we experience it. As a result, those of us who learn and enjoy this little theory can rest assured we have the perfect personality.
- the Everything Rule maintains that everyone does everything, at one time or another. which is to say, the three personality types (of the Wakefield Doctrine) are in fact in the same reality. anything one might think applies to one, applies to the other two. it is simply manifested differently, according to the relationship the person we are talking about maintains with the world
- only one predominant worldviews to a person (secondary and tertiary aspects having an passing effect is valid)
so to our Friend of the Doctrine’s Comment, consider how ‘appetite’ manifests in the three
- clarks (the Outsider) discreet sips/prodigious needs
- scotts (the Predator) more fun when it gets on everyone
- rogers (the Herd Member) I beg your pardon, one simply must consider not only the arrangement and setting but the very Menu, there is, after all, a Right Way
Weigh in as you would
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thank you… we will now continue with our regularly-scheduled Monday post
I’d like to test a theory, please. Is there a rogerian genre of music? I could listen to Einar Selvik all day, and I often do, but I think this might be a scottian thing.
Time to cook dinner…
interesting idea.
(Allow me to be the strict Doctrinairien first: there are genre of music that will appeal to one predominant worldview more than the other two in a noticeable way. And, since I’ve never taken being strict to much to heart, there is the question of ‘is music created/composed by a clark/scott/roger distinguishable by virtue of composer’s personality type?’)
damn! (and thanks) your suggestion is totally deserving of a full AP level Wakefield Doctrine post.
in the meantime, an exercise: what do you think/what’s it make you want to do/how does it make you feel? its being this Einar Selvik’s music
ProTip: if one is inclined to explore oneself for the purposes of better self-appreciation, using the Doctrine is a fun way… this exercise, which can be found in most instances of taking up the alternate perspective of everyone’s favorite personality theory and use it illuminate parts of ourselfs that we usually don’t take the time to consider
It makes me feel elemental, rooted and earthy, bone-deep. I love it; it makes me feel alive. My husband can’t tolerate it. When I’m alone in my car, which has brilliant speakers, it’s blasting. His car is the land of Gaga and Madonna and Abba.
It’s been such a long day I’m not so sure I’m following everything well. Maybe tomorrow.
lol
I don’t blame you… sometimes I lose track (“damn you Stream of Consciousness! Bring back that theme, right this instant!”)
Cliff Notes: Started with a coin toss. Misky was kind enough to allow her recent Comment as a jumping off point. Essentially: are there musical genres/forms that appeal to one predominant worldview over the other two. In this case could it be established that there was a rogerian genre of music.
I didn’t help by digressing early in the post on the subject of ‘having an ear (like in music) for the behavioral metaphor of the three personality types.
But then we got back on track (sorta) with my restating the principles of ‘the Everything Rule’ and ‘we all have the perfect personality type for the world as we experience it‘ and closed out with bullet points to the question (that started it all) ‘how does appetite manifest in the three predominant worldviews
hey, maybe I should keep the post in my head and write (and copy/paste) a Cliff Notes version into the post!
lol
Apologies, Mimi. My fingers were sort of thinking out loud…
you bear none of the responsibility for my indulgence in hypo-clarity, au contraire, your questions/thought experiments are, as are Mimi’s, the come hither we are fortunate to be the beneficiary of*
lol
*yes, I will try and find something of the ‘come hither’ imagery that certain-among-us-as-thirteen-year-olds-found irresistible and funnier than anything and post it here
this has been the way of this blog since we opened the doors… on-target, wildly random, back on target etc
we appreciate your imaginative queries as we are grateful for Mimi’s gentle reminder to… write for the First-Time Reader (at least some of the times)
…typically, I’ve already moved on (grinning), and I’m thinking about what to cook for dinner.
(the Readers* ‘well, duh!’)
the more advanced Readers… (as the Friends of the Doctrine look on, nodding feeling happy at the product of their efforts)