the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Thanks out to Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi for her Comment on yesterday’s Post:

It’s certainly helpful to keep in mind, we don’t all think alike.

A good reminder of an aspect of this thing of ours that all too ofter gets a lesser treatment: personal reality.

While we often say, ‘The tough thing about learning to use the Doctrine is having the willingness to accept an alternate perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.’

Most people, when push comes to shove, are good with one ‘real’ reality. This view is so fundamental as to never really constitute a choice. ‘Look around you! That’s real! Not because my participation is necessary (“Fuck you and the crepes you think you ate, Descartes!”   “Oh yeah!?! Percipi this mon green ami!!”¹)

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Sorry, our little divertimento of a footnote has used up our time. We will return to address the very serious matter of ‘How Real is a Personal Reality?’ tomorrow.

Promise!

1) err imagine the scene, in a bar, down the street from the Holiday Inn on Existential Weekend Convention:

Bishop George Berkeley and René Descartes are entering the heated phase of an on-going argument. Tempers begin to flare, not entirely because both philosophers have been totally shut down by Starry Nights who is currently on stage, the lights are simply not in her eyes for either men. Aware that they are about to enter the punching phase of Reason, call out for impartial judgement. Turning to the hostess who appears as if by magic, she smiles in a kindly but brook-no-argument tone of voice, “Lou says you’re both a couple of Ba-Doinks and neither of you have a shot. He says to give you one free round to go with your obviously abused Free Will and to keep it down. That or he’ll come over here personally and provide a final summation.”

“Tá brón orm!!”

“Je vous prie de bien vouloir m’excuser, Mademoiselle Diane!”

Diane Tierney nods amusement pulling at one side of her mouth,  “Apologies accepted. One last round and back to your hotel you go.”

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

On this week’s Saturday night (Denise and the Progenitor roger) were discussing a mutual aquaintance who happens to be a first order scott.

The statement was made, ‘Yeah he looks around (in a given situation, not critical to this discussion) and, seeing the prey, is consumed by hate.’ This from the roger.

As often happens, our reaction was… ‘Wait! Say that again!’

He said that again.

We were all, “That’s exactly what a roger would say.”

If we were in a film there would be an onscreen subtitle: Translation between the personal reality of one and an objective observer.

The fun thing, we didn’t even need to think, ‘Wait! What would you have said?’ It was clear to us that, from a roger, the depiction of the engagement of a scott with the world would be from the emotional palette.

(New Readers) Each of the ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine exist in what can be best described as distinctly different personal realities.

• The clark (Outsider) is a part of a world of thought, logic and the analytical. This person is best described as manifesting their lifes in the medium of rational thought (hold up on your ‘Rational?!!? Then what the fuck is all this?!!?!) lol
• The scott (Predator) lives the day-to-day life of the Predator, all motion and action and reaction-without-hesitation. While clarks are thinking, scotts are running down the Prey (of the moment). scotts act (first and think about shit afterwords, subjective reflection as a postprandial snack only)
• The roger (the Herd Member) lives in the light of a cloudless sky over an endless savannah. Emotion is woven into everything, but especially in the fabric of others of like-kind. They know there is a Right Way and feel the solemn responsiblity to let others know how defined and quantifiable life is… irony is left at the door.

The take-away?

What we see/think/feel is not (necessarily) what the other person is experiencing.

So, maybe we should begin to say, ‘the Wakefield Doctrine’ is a a group of languages native to three characteristic personal realities. Become fluent in each and you will know more about the other person than you ordinarily would.’

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