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

Seeing how we’ve acquired a number of New Readers since last we faced Winter’s Dawn, it is incumbent upon us to explain this view. While radical in terms of the conventional view of time, the year and its Season, we say, ‘Better get used to it.’

Having passed the Summer Solstice, each day grows shorter, at least here in the northern hemisphere. And it doesn’t take more than a sugar-rushed sixth grade debating class to see the weakness in the opposing team’s position: “But the calendar says ‘It’s the Start of Summer, not the End.’ Sure, and hard work and serious demeanor is always rewarded. (ed. ‘holy shit’. take a moment to peruse the search results to ‘Sayings about Puritan work ethic‘. … if you’re not back here by….now! you have our condolensces. We’ll leave a music vid for you at the bottom of the post. If you remember to return. It’s not your fault or failing. It’s the lack of a secondary clarklike aspect of a sufficient intensity.) “au revoir, binyons“.

You’re still reading?

Good.

The Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. Predicated on the notion that there are three distinct, (yet subtly interrelated), ways to relate to the world at large. We, all of us, develop at a very early age a personality type that is best suited to the world, (and reality), as we’re experiencing it. We, all of us, become:

• clarks the Outsider bound to the original sin of believing that everyone they see knows something that a clark does not; this knowledge is exhibited by their apparent comfort and affiliation with other people, despite the depth of association. the effect on the Outsider is to engender an eternal curiosity, an endless drive to learn what others clearly know that makes them collectively ‘a part of’
• scotts the Predator bound, as apprentice to the original Tempter; scotts live in the paradise of the here and now, the simple, and arguably, more natural life of predator-prey. an eternal happiness measured by the next heartbeat, the day to be seized, the past un-begrudged and a future unlimited. a perfect lifeform of a god less insecure
• rogers the Herd Member bound, unknowingly but to their credit, to the role of insufficient Creator, recoiling from the responsibility of the true craftsman who follows the edict: ‘A true craftsman stands by their work and accepts any flaws are their responsibility’.

We, all of us, learn the best strategies for surviing and thriving in the world as we experience it. Our individual personality types are, by this view perfect. While all live in a world dictated by one (and only one) predominant worldview, we have the potential, if’n we’re lucky, to have a secondary or even tertiary aspect significant enough to allow us, from time to time, to see the world as ‘the other two’ are experiencing it. These momentary glances into the world-we-did-not-grow-up-in can be dramatic and often a transcendent moment; more often than not under conditions of extreme duress. but still…

The ambition of the alternative perspective offered by the Wakefield Doctrine is, at it’s heart, an opportunity to identify with ‘the other two’ personal realities. Doing so, with practice, avails us of better appreciating the world as the other person is experiencing it.

*