the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Lets RePrint.

(but.. try to remind us to remember not to forget to discuss the concept of ‘lashing out’ as manifested in the rogerian worldview. It, the understanding of its nature, mechanism and effect is a singular value among the insights afforded us for all the effort that has gone into this here blog here.)

Wait… we’ll just go ahead and save a draft write now. Not that we doubt you’ll remember, but we might forget our-own-damn-selfs.

…ok. back. had to paste the RePrint. That way we can link this post into a draft for tomorrow’s. Now, we need something…nemonic, yet clever and, ideally, irresistible…  What? Yeah subtitle would be a good place for the primary hook. How about “the single most useful thing about the Wakefield Doctrine’…single most useful insight? takeway? damn… our phone has been an endless cornucopia of (redumbdent? (ha ha… man, someone has to have coined that one already…)) click-bait titles.

damn! oh well, guess we’ll just copy the first parenthetical and leave it go at that.

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‘…of sharing and belonging’ the Wakefield Doctrine ‘so how’s that little campaign to bring the Doctrine to the world, coming along?’

January 25, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)the purpose of this Post is to….

It has been said of the Wakefield Doctrine (specifically) and of creativity (generally) that:

• clarks: despite being the only one of the three capable of genuine creativity, are totally  ‘un’-‘non’-‘ill’-‘dys’  -equipped to present a new idea to the world in an effective manner
• scotts: despite being the most charismatic of the three personality types, has neither the need, nor the desire, to associate themselves with an ‘idea’ any further than is necessary to have people pay attention to them in the moment
• rogers: because of their innate (and prodigious) talent for self-promotion are, in fact, most commonly found as the figurehead for most ideas that create followings among people, have no interest whatsoever in the idea itself, convinced that the attention that is being focused is simply the natural order

Dealing with, accommodating and adapting to the above personality type qualities,  has been the Challenge facing this blog since the first Post in June 2009. In fairness to the author, we should state that the original goal of the Wakefield Doctrine blog was to create a following (of) the idea of ‘personality types as functions of personal realities’ and to develop a public forum, a platform upon which the uses of this perspective on human behavior could be presented, exhibited and displayed. The thinking, (behind this approach), was simply that the more people who learned about the Doctrine, the more people would contribute to the knowledge base that would grow around the blog itself.

Or so the thinking went…

From the very first year, the scotts (those associated with the blog that were of a scottian personality type) were all,  “what the hell are you talking about!!!  Nobodys gonna read that boring crap!!  you gotta get in their face and make ’em pay attention!!  say ‘fuck’ a lot!!! that’s what will keep them focused… pictures music  no body is gonna read a droning on and on and on about how the psychological implications!!!  you want Readers then you got to be exiting!!! …. oh, yeah  fuck!!”

 And, to a certain extent, we do not disagree. In fact, we have never disagreed with their insistence on presenting the Wakefield Doctrine with an element of excitement and life, something that would draw the attention of the causal blog-browser.  Our objection to the scottian obsession with movement and noise and energy, has simply been that, for a scott, the attention (of others) is the end in and of itself. A scott does not attract attention in order to….  a scott attracts attention because that is where the energy is,  life is about living, (for the scott) and energy and motion and activity is what you do to know you are alive.
…so, no help there.

From the very first year , the rogers (those associated with the blog that were of the rogerian personality type) were all, “sure…tell the tale and they will follow”
As a matter of fact, it was a long-held belief that it would take either a roger or my developing my rogerian aspect in order to create the voice in these Posts that would attract Readers. The thinking was that, rogers being the masses in the first place, were the only ones who  could shape the words, impart the style that would resonate with the Readership.
That was almost true.

For a roger to present a new idea to the world, requires that the roger first tell the world about how successful they are and only then, when the Readers come closer, drawn by the light of fame ( a light being held by the rogeron themselves),  will they be willing to learn of this new and interesting personality theory.

…so, no help there.

So where does that leave us?

…well, even though this Wakefield Doctrine blog has not become a:

• yelling, screaming flashing lights and breasts and omg-I-can’t-believe-you-said-that funny place with lots of wicked funny Comments and all and other scottian whoopee cushions ( literarily speaking) and
• we are not holding forth on “...why, yes, as I was saying just the other day to another person who thinks I am wonderful, well I was starting to say something really inciteful but we were both interrupted by a famous blog writer who said that this was so wonderful they couldn’t believe why this blog was not more famous and I said, ‘why darling, of course it is, but you’re kind of narrow gauge yourself aren’t you’”

…all and all, not bad so far, not bad.

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