the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Why, ‘Advanced-followers post’ as the subtitle?

Because we want to reduce the incidence of cerebrospinal injury among causal viewers as we explain the photo at the top of this post.

It, (the photo), is of our tv* this morning.

It is an up-to-date viewer, so we have access, (through it), to the internet, in general, and YouTube, in particular. Cool, right?

So we’re into live web cam shows. There’s one we discovered that watches for the Woods Hole-Vinyard Haven ferry. The camera affords a view of Vinyard Haven harbor you can see it, (the ferry), come through the breakwater and dock. Another ‘local’ cam that we watch, with morning coffee, is in a boatyard and it scans the Westerly shoreline, mid-way up the Pawcatuck River, at a point where one can see the cemetery where Phyllis’s mother is buried.

I repeat, cool.

But that’s not what this post is about. Well, kinda, but not really.

It’s about practicing the Doctrine, or, since we’re talking to advanced students, its about developing our language skills. This is first and foremost about our ability to recognize how other people are relating themselves to the world around them. This is, of course, the first step to knowing the other person’s predominant worldview** because, otherwise, how can we know the nature of their personal reality?

There are a number of approaches to determining a person’s predominant worldview, ranging from the choice of words (in spoken communications), to the grace and power of their physical expression to their non-verbal communicationing.

So we found this live cam in Romania, outside the Pilvax Restaurant and Wine Bar. (Thats the screen shot above). And, with the time difference, we’re watching the cobblestone street at, like 1:20 pm or so. Live.

And, what makes this so amenable to our language lesson, we can see people walking up and down the cobblestone lane. There are shops and there is a restaurant. The view is close enough in, as you can see, to, not necessarily see their faces, but to definitely see their bodies and posture and… individual carriage***.

damn! This is fun.

Note: remember, the Wakefield Doctrine’s three types, the Outsider(clarks), the Predators(scotts) and the Herd Members(rogers) are predicated on how they relate themselves to the world around them. You cannot, for the moment, count on the other person introducing themselves as ‘err, hello, I’m a clark with a medium secondary scottian and minor tertiary rogerian aspect’. Someday, maybe if you’d tell people in your world about this thing and they tell… lol

We observe and we identify with the other person. We throw out the ‘no way type’ and then look for the distinctions between the remaining two. Are they slouching as they walk? Are they purposeful and alert to their surroundings. Are they wearing fun headgear(Doctrine Tip: male rogers and clarklike females)

So go find yourself some live webcams and practice you Wakefield Doctrine language skills.

Let us know.

* I know, no one calls it a tv anymore, other than those who remember the signal-enhancing qualities of aluminum foil

** New Readers? What people would, inaccurately, call personality types.

*** yeah, sometimes the odd words are the fun words