the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Another reprint. A rather early reprint at that. Purported to having written most posts, I find it interesting when I see the occasional little differences in the description and/explanation of one aspect or another of our little personality theory. Now that I think about, lol¹ these differences are the parts, (of the Doctrine), that with time, we’ve come to understand in a manner both more nuanced and, if we might, more sophisticated.

Probably the most significant of these ‘differences’ can be seen in our description of the individual’s experience of the three predominant worldviews. The three ‘personal realities’ are consistent. Though I’ll say, back in the early posts, the fun in describing the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) or the life of the Herd Member(rogers) is quite evident. And, it’s not that it’s any less fun now to describe …. the kitchen of a scottian mother versus that of a clarklike or rogerian mom. It’s just that when I re-read these older posts, I can remember the sense of ‘...and this is‘ ‘oh yeah! and…!!‘ etc lol

Back to talking about the development, at least in these writings; a very useful development was the realization that the ‘fact’ of growing up in the personal of (one and only one) of the three is best described as a relationship. The now famous and oft-stated, ‘…all about better appreciating how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’.

Look at the time!

… oh yeah, one more: the Everything Rule.

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3 personality types add up to one darn good theory

April 20, 2011

3 personality types, you already know all about them.
The theory, the Wakefield Doctrine, well you surely know about that… so why make such a fuss about it?

The internet is nothing if it is not over-loaded with personality theories and secrets of the psyche and how-to-understand he/she/them schema!
So why should you spend any time here, reading about this theory? I could say something meant to be amusing  like,  ‘we have music videos’ or ‘ look at the clever photos and intriguing Post Titles’! or even ‘but we have hats (for your damn head)’. But to be serious, these are not sufficient reasons to stay and browse through a blogsite; well, maybe the hat (for your damn head), that might be intriguing enough. But, no, really…

The reason is this thing just makes sense in a way that nothing else out there does. Personality blogs that have tests and talks about traits ‘n interests are a dime a dozen. They all talk about our personalities in terms that are totally generic ( “…you will know the Ocean because it’s color is a shade of blue! …except, that is, times when it is more a blue-green…make that grayish…”).  We have all seen those sites. The thing of it is, if you are still reading this, you are one of the fortunate people in that you have intelligence and curiosity. You could be somewhere else, looking at pictures or listening to a music video but you are reading about something that seems interesting.

The reason the Wakefield Doctrine is different and better than anything else out there is that it holds together better than other personality theory (real or recreational).

…holds together..??!  I mean:

rogers are people who perceive the world as being quantifiable and with the social perspective of a member of a herd:

• they are very sociable but only in a group-setting, they would never go travelling on their own, seeing new locales, (if they have a choice)
• in the work environment, they will be part of ‘the network’ the ‘water cooler’ crowd
• rules and regulations, which are inherently meant to apply to the group( as opposed to the individual) are bread and butter to the roger
• aggression towards another is based on getting the group to disapprove of the (target) individual, “everyone knows that jimmy is such an asshole…”
• a victimized  roger will react to adversity by portraying themselves as a victim and will immediately look to the group for support
• since rogers see the world from the perspective of the herd, they will also be driven to preserve anything that is held in common by the group, traditions, customs, habits

scotts are people who view the world as a place of predator/prey (they be the predator) think about dogs for this one:

• sociable, but from a perspective of themselves to the group, not part of the group
• the world is a simple place for scotts therefore their emotional life is simple; anger, lust, joy quick to start, quick to stop
• they are aggressive without being mean, they are friendly without being personable
• scotts act without excessive introspection, so are thought to be certain which in turn makes them leaders (for rogers)

clarks are, in a sense,  the opposite of  scotts

• where  scotts live through action, clarks (try) to live in reflection
• the geek that appears clueless is often a clark and they are not stupid, they are simply distracted
• being creative, clarks often are seen as the outcasts, this is as much the herd rejecting them as it is not being able to blend in

Well, I hope that cleared things up! Clearly you have before you a tool of value and as is the case with most tools, practice is required before it can be used effectively.

So read, Comment and drop us a live (0r a line, hey I’m a fricken clark details are not always us)…or hey, here’s an idea! Next Saturday Evening pick up your phone and call us (the number is in the upper right hand corner). You clarks, you think we believe that you will be busy?  hey roger! yeah we know how important your schedule is but consider this: if you believe any of this Doctrine stuff, then we have the herd-member Prime, the Progenitor roger and you know you want a shot at him…scotts?? sorry, Saturday is a time in the future and we know how you people hate the I-can’t-see-it-touch-it-eat-it  things…so maybe not

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1) you know, clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel, right?

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

While my electro-letter-hurler warms up and my fingers look up at the blank display like a 10 yo at their first sock hop, allow us to paste a Reprint.

…there.

Man! Look at the time! (lol)

It’s our ambition to spend more of the week’s Doctrine posts in discussion, illustration, demonstration and presentation of the principles of the Doctrine. This to include practical applications (of said principles) and the fun to be had by using it at school, work and home. As an additional perspective on the world around us, and the people how make it up, the Wakefield Doctrine is both fun and useful.

Recently, in the course of conversation about the past, present and future demographic of people benefitting from this here personality theory here, I was prompted to recall one of the first observations that came to us as people happened upon this blog and returned and stayed. (Serially, how cool was that? My grat-friends see it every week here, but the idea that the Wakefield Doctrine offers something good to people we would never otherwise met in person? muy coolitó)

Annyway what we realized then was that Readers who come here more than once are: clarks or scotts with a significant secondary clarklike aspect or rogers with a significant secondary clarklike aspect.

New Readers? The preceding sentence has some unavoidably advanced Doctrine concepts, but if you read enough posts, at a certain point, you’ll find yourself putting things together, even without the benefit of the ‘educational’ posts.

5 out of 234 people reading this Post won’t say, ‘wtf?!? the Wakefield Doctrine “because different things are fun at different times, ya know?”

February 20, 2014

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

Today’s Post is one of those Posts that are written for a couple of semi-different, not un-mutually reinforcing reasons. The two reasons are:

1. to continue our discussion that started in the Comments to yesterday’s Post, about whether the Seven Dwarfs, (in Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs), represented a scottian or rogerian or clarklike worldview. In addition, there were differing interpretations of the worldview represented by some of the other characters in this story (and in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’)
2. to demonstrate the fact that disagreement and discussion with interpretation of  the worldview of  people (including fictional characters) is not only allowable, it is totally desirable… (this is prompted by Stephanie’sComment expressing concern how her disagreement with my conclusions might be met, in this, she is to applauded. I suspect many people have disagreed but few have had the temerity to say so…at least that was the case before last year, before the Doctrine acquired a more… astute, talented, headstrong bunch of Readers
3. …notice the ‘and’ in Item 2?  notice it’s underlined and everthing? totally serious there… we all learn by hearing from each other what we see as expressions of clark or scott or rogerian behavior, attitude, posture (physical and rhetorical), characteristics, but  the emphasis in on the sharing of impressions, understandings, interpretation and other things we see in people in the world, Doctrineistically-speaking, i.e. “I gotta go with scott, do you see how the appetite combines with a clear impersonal view of the humanity of the other characters” sense.

the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective, it’s a way we can choose to look at the world around us, the people and the things that they do. As a perspective, the Wakefield Doctrine does not have ‘An Answer’, it does not presume to say, ‘this is the nature of Man and Woman and Life and Such’.  No. It does not. What the Doctrine does say is, ‘hey you know what? If you can imagine that reality is not just the everyday, ordinary common sense thing, but that reality, at a certain level of experience, is…personal, then what if there were three kinds or styles of personal realities? And these personal realities are real, ya know? The three personal realities (lets call them worldviews, ok?) are:

1. the reality of the Outsider (in which you are different, and there is a gap between you and the world around you and there is an un-stated imperative that you not allow yourself to be identified as the different one and there is, an equally un-reconciled drive to distinguish yourself, to not be ”un-noticed’)
2. the world of the Predator  ( where each day is all that is real, that your appetite is your only certainty and while you strive to keep the civilized company of those you encounter at work or at school or even your own family, you are willing to surrender all in service of this need you have to dominate or take or bring into a personal relationship…a pack, if you will)
3. the life of the Herd Member (you don’t question any of this Doctrine, it makes sense to you, not by virtue of it’s accuracy in reflecting the inner world that you experience, rather you are coming to see the Doctrine as another form of ‘referential authority’, which is the foundation of your decision-making as you live your life to the best of your ability, to share in the knowledge of correct action is your highest goal, confident in the rightness and order behind the world as you see it)

And these are…real realities, not just a choice I might make one day, only to decide to do something different a week later. I grew up in the worldview, (personal reality), of the Outsider, for example. I did not decide in my 4 year old mind, ‘I think I will feel and act like I did not belong anywhere and everyone around me is different and I better not admit to any of this’…I so did not! The fact of the matter is, I found myself in a world in which I was, by the natural order of things, an Outsider. So I did my best. To deal with it and, more…way more importantly, I figured out how to best cope with the world I found myself in… as we say at the Doctrine, ‘I came to relate myself to the world around me as would an Outsider.’

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Now, about those frickin dwarfs!

I’m likin scott for the character of the 7 Dwarfs because, as I relate to the story, they existed independently of the other characters, including Ms. White.  They were self-sufficiently and content to be Happy and (sometimes) Grumpy and (after a hard day’s work) Sleepy, (without a self-distorting drive to improve or educate themselves), Dopey and (with a unself-conscious acceptance of their own natural, animal natures allowing them to be free to give expression to urges and drives like se…) Sneezy and even if, made self-conscious by these urges, free to be Bashful  or …er  or  give in to a secret ambition to secure a higher level of formal education up to an including  earning a Doc(torate)

you know, as a group, the Seven Dwarfs represent the simple, here and now, eat, sleepy, ..etc life that is the foundation for the scottian worldview.

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

This is our contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Hypograt: current cold. Because …still typing (and walking and doing things)

5) Grateful for the ‘What the heck” aspect of our Doctrine persona. What the writing books refer to as ‘voice’. I remember thinking back when we started this blog, ‘Oh man! Cynthia and Kristi and all my (new) friends are so good at expressing themselves online. I gots to get me one of those!’ Fortunately, for reasons I still write about, the Wakefield Doctrine (the additional perspective on the world around me and the people who make it up) totally took over. A case of a demonstration of efficacy in realtime. Whenever I sat down at my electrical word-former, I lost my need to: impress, sound-like-everyone, read-like-someone-who-knows-what-they’re-doing, you know, writing good. (I suspect I could write for hours and years about how my clarklike predominant worldview, released of fear, if only for a minute, would sound like… wait a minute! I think I may have already have.  Laugh Out Loud (lol)

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) technology!  allows me to pad out my only-semi-rantistic post with a vid

https://youtu.be/fRbYahplvwA

8) all the Friends of the Doctrine past and future

9) something something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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* actually, feeling better today, no ‘fever of a hundred an three’

* (courtesy of a Sunday morning view of Pulp Fiction)

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