the Wakefield Doctrine

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

think of this post as part: Doctrine Fermi Paradox (and part): a tree (or twenty trees) can fall in the forest, the villagers will sleep like baby muskrats…Post

New Readers: a little Insider Insigh -formation. When we started writing this blog we had a certain degree of finger-paint mentality. We knew that what we wrote was good. But, well, finger-painting.

So thirty-six hundred posts later… here we are doing the first thing we learned about writing a less-than ehh-not-what-we-meant post, i.e. writing another post.

To resist the clarklike drive to explain stuff, lets review what the most recent exchange of posts/Comments/Reply(s) has offered:

• the pertinent idea/avenue of insight in the original Comment/Reply exchange: as organized and logical this personality theory might appear, at first blush, understanding and making use of the Wakefield Doctrine is as much art as science
• despite this, while there is something of the ‘vamp until ready’* in many of our posts (intended to instigate discussions of the appreciation, use and meaning of the principles of the Doctrine), there is order/stability/structure to the actual theory (of clarks, scotts and rogers)
• fortunately for us, there is an innate integrity to this ‘additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up’ that allows every insight/interaction/inference inspired by employing the perspective to be useable and useful
• students and masters alike enjoy a benefit uniquely tailored to their level of appreciation and (individual) predominant worldview

So, our thanks to Mimi and Denise and Misky. These conversations (ha ha, pick your own level of ‘I beg your pardon! I thought this was all quite polite and proper a blog post, I’ve never…!’ use of the word.

So for any New Readers (still reading): there are three characteristic relationships with the world around us; we each adopt one at an early age; this forms the context for our personal and social development (i.e. personality type). They, (all three), are complimentary but not interchangeable or otherwise swapped out at will. (That’s called mental illness). These three are called:

1. clarks (the Outsider) not an introvert, that’d be intellectual laziness. a clark is the eternal Outsider and their defining characteristic is a need to learn (often mis-understood as ‘understanding’) about the world around them. good-hearted to a fault, un-naturally afraid of scrutiny and, of the three, the only truly creative personalty (as in bringing into existence that which did not exist before)
2. scotts (the Predator) manifests the drive to survive and continue. the scott is the life (of the party, the effort, the push forward)… natural leaders (scotts are often wrong, but never uncertain). the Future is forced to concede to the Present because of scotts. they are creative by virtue of the force of their personality: “Hey! This is new. You like it/are impressed by it…right!!!?
3. rogers (the Herd Member) that there is a culture that endures, a civilization that advances the human race and provides indoor plumbing is courtesy of the Members of the Herd. They maintain continuity because, for the Herd Member, the world/the universe is a quantifiable place. The creativity of their reality is a  talent for novel re-assembly of elements that exist in the everyday world, which, unsurprisingly results in their popularity in the arts.

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