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

Say you’re out and about today.

It’s summer, (here in Oceania), despite the store displays being torn down and replaced by Pumpkin-infused Halloween merchandise.

You’re out on errands or whatever GenMe calls: getting gas at the Seven-Eleven, stopping at work to pick up your check or driving by the beach to see if your ennui can be banished by the sight of non-old bodies in minimal clothing exhibiting hypo-organized behavior.

You’ve studied your Wakefield Doctrine.

You have a solid grasp of the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews*, at least on the level comparable to going on a trip to Spain during your last year in Spanish Club.

What is the purpose of the Wakefield Doctrine?

It is not:

• finding something to do that on your trip that will, somehow, make it special… wait, it is kinda that
• discovering a part of your life, (promise not to stop reading? … gain a new appreciation to a part of your life) damn! busted
• laugh at the foibles of your fellow lifeforms and, at the peak ha-ha-moment, realize many of things you dislike about yourself aren’t so awful…shit! (maybe we shouldn’t’ve committed to this bullet point thing so hard**)
• allowing the weight of ‘doing things correctly’ to lighten to a few-ounces-less-than-glum.  boy-oh-boy better hope the word count is enough to quit this ‘What the Wakefield Doctrine is not’ schtick
• the Answer…. finally!!  a valid point. the study, use and embrace of the perspective afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine is not ‘the Answer’
• the way to change the things in others close to you… shit, near the end and now we’re on a roll!! The famous saying/advisory to New Readers is: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them. (figure it out). It does, however, offer a chance to avoid one’s own triggers when interacting with others… these triggers being very much a part of maintaining the “I really like them except for when they…”

out

*aka personality types:

• clarks (Outsiders)
• scotts (Predators)
• rogers (Herd Members)

** thanks to the writers of ‘The Good Place’ for the rhetorical device, you need to watch to the very end, though