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

Now’s the tricky part.

In yesterday’s post you read about three people contemplating having lunch (together) in a crowded restaurant.

The easy part: by virtue of being familiar with the character (and characteristics) of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine, one is able to extrapolate their individual responses to the prospect of lunch:

• the clark is an Outsider. not a part of, not even a necessary, if not always pleasant, aspect of the cycle of life (hint: rhymes with scott), ‘Outsider’ as in apart from. if you do not appreciate how that translates on a social interaction matrix… off to Remedial Doctrine class with you!
• the scott is a Predator. what characterizes Predators in the most economical use of words? chase/be chased action-equals-life. Fun Doctrine insight: the menu may be pasted to the window of the restaurant, but it’s also standing on full, live-action display (and, yes, there will be other Predators pretending to be du jour), all the better to start the game of life
• the roger as an individual is the promise of the Herd, as a Member, (of the Herd), the justification of all they collectively stand for: ‘take, eat, this is my worldview’. there is no sadness in sacrifice if it is part of the greater whole

…now, the hard part!

lol

no, wait! lets save that for Friday. We gots to work on our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

we suspect you, the Reader, might appreciate a little time to assimilate and ruminate on the overt implications of our little illustration of the real in personal reality, vis á vis the Wakefield Doctrine. To this end, allow us to pose some potentially enlightening questions. (New Readers who are clarks? You can skip this following section. Unless, of course, you want to indulge in the vicarious sense of belonging as you answer the questions for yourself.)

• if you ‘wake up’* to the fact that you are an Outsider, how do you feel?
• well, yeah, you’re kinda busy trying to figure out what they, (everyone but you), seems to know that you do not
• ok… it’s clearly a secret that the others have forgotten they know… don’t assume otherwise. Even an Outsider has instincts for self-preservation and bugging everyone around you about this matter is surely not a good idea.
• decide to ‘pass’ and get to work finding the thing they know, the information in whatever class in ‘Being a Part Off’ you unwisely played hooky from, thanks goodness intelligence is so not huge on peer comparison at an early age (at least among peers) (ish)

*no, roger. stop. no point or need to seize on the wake up. we all become the personality types we are because we deal with the world as we experience it as little baby children. our attempts to cope and our strategies to survive and thrive is in direct relationship to the personal reality we find ourselfs in.