Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
So you think you’ve gotten yourself learned (you know, ‘learn ed’) sufficiently as to the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews of our little ‘personality theory’. Let’s not start writing recruiting pitches, expositions, graphic novels or sermons quite yet.
If you’re comfortable imagining the world through the eyes of the three, you’ve also encountered a nagging sense of confluence (in the world as each experience it).
It should not come as a surprise (nor an opportunity… roger). After all, we’re not talking science fiction here. With the Everything Rule as a backdrop (or for that matter a drop cloth) consider the proposition:
Of the qualities of each of the three, which is most antithetical (producing feelings of extreme, existential antipathy) in which of the others?
ok! let’s throw the threasus on the floor, and here is the worst thing ever for each:
- a clark? scrutiny (from the rogerian personal reality, this is love transformed in torture)
- to a scott? a world in which nothing is consistently reliable (from the nothing is really, totally real/everything-is-possible existence of clarks)
- for a roger being alone and un-connected in the company of others (from the lone wolf world of scotts and, for good measure, the life of the Outsider)
…to be cont’d
About clarkscottroger
I am beginning to wonder if I’m a scott. I don’t mind being alone, so I’m not a roger. I don’t mind scrutiny, since I love to nit-pick back, but it is a waste of time. So, I might not be a clark, but I probably am.
probably not*
*the thing about scrutiny (the unsolicited and thoroughly un-approved inspection/analysis/mind-your-own-fuckin’-business is that that is the second-most characteristic/intrinsic quality to a clark (after curiosity, of course)
keep working on it, though
The above is the reason I will probably never have anything published, the scrutiny of an editor/etc. would wear me out.
ikr?
(worse and more costly (in the general process of getting published), you lack the capacity for self-promotion. at least on the scale that one of the other two is far more capable of… oh, well. at least we enjoy the gift of true creativity.)
(non-official Grat: this blog has brought me into contact with more of my kind than I would ever have on my own… this is, to me, priceless)