Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
sure, why not?
RePrint:
damn1 can’t find us any RePrintacious posts.
gonna have to go old school.
New and/or hypo-aged Readers? Back in the Before Time there once was a meme persistent in nearly every family-oriented sitcom that was meant to make the old person/Viewer feel valued. It was in all sitcoms, be them: family-with-two-kids-breadwinner-unspecified-employment, doctors-with-famblies, farmers-with-dogs, Lisa(s)-with-Mr Haney, even medical doctors during wartime*. Which is what prompted this subplot.
So what does this, today’s post do for New Readers?
Not a lot, less’n you’re a clark.
The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that there are three personality types that account for us all. There’s way, way more to the Doctrine than this, but hey, it’s Monday. Give a Curator a break, why don’cha. These three are:
- clarks (the Outsider) ‘by their silence ye shall know them’ (Note: clarks abhor the spotlight but will not tolerate being ignored)
- scotts (the Predator) ‘the Roar of the Beast shall be the Sign’ (Note: a scott alone in a room isn’t)
- rogers (the Herd Member) ‘(the) rising tide lifts all boats’ (Note: rogers have never met an aphorism they did’t think to appropriate.)
Each type (predominant worldview) is a reflection of the character of the relationship one maintains with the world around them and the people who make it up.
By learning these relationships one can identify everyone’s personality type and have a sense of how they are experiencing the situation.
ya know?
before the (obvious) music selection
*In one episode of MASH, the head doctor (Harry Morgan) was feeling like he couldn’t keep up with the young (rogerian) doctors in his charge. Until that is until the time they came to him with a case they couldn’t diagnose. (yeah, right. how did the show’s writers see their audience? all thirteen year old children. oh, right, we were). Anyway, old doctor notices a smell that makes him think of WWI (his war…like it’s fuckin’ good thing to have one’s life and profession grounded in a world war). Fixed the patient, continued on, feeling valued amongst his youthful chargers. (Note: ‘early onset’ wasn’t a thing back then).
About clarkscottroger
That does seem to characterize clarks: ‘by their silence ye shall know them’
I wonder if there are subgroups to the three top groups of clark, scott and roger?
No.
Of course, if we’re doing our reading, there are variations of manifest predominant worldviews, i.e. secondary and tertiary aspects but these do not create a new or even and addition to the Doctrine’s taxonomy.*
* your secondary rogerian aspect** is showing lol
** or whatever your secondary is…. damn this innate projectile consideration of my clarklike nature (the rule that no one has authority to classify another person’s personality…at least no with an expectation of being designated as ‘correct’
No sub-groups, just an “Everything Rule.”
tru dat