Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Tonight we’ll post our Six Sentence Story (or two) and Friday we might try an catch ‘an out-of-town’ bloghop. If for no other reason than to to broaden our horizons, try to penetrate yet another blogosphere segment… you know, just to keep our ‘stalk ‘n hunt’ secondary scottian aspect from becoming bored, (or worse, lethargic and believing that his/her claws are permanently the pieces of chalk they are coming to resemble).
We will, continue to offer, at minimum, three days of ‘This is (the) Wakefield Doctrine’ posts. For New (and Experienced) Readers alike.
From Misky in her Comment on Monday’s post.
This: “Find a zen monk who’s a roger and hold up a picture of sub-adults all enraptured by a social app on their (collective) phones. Ask: is this a part of the monk’s Herd?
The answer: It is now.” …
I find this image somewhat unsettling, and I would avoid those particular sub-adults like plague in a petri dish. What if some part of the ‘herd’ goes against the rules of the collective? Will a rogerian sever that (renegade) portion from the herd, or try to persuade their thinking into uniformity?
ok. leave your reasonable expectations, extrapolations of behavior based on ‘do unto others…’ and remember we’re talking about fun with behavioral metaphors.
Picture a workplace. One focused on technical/scientific/rules-based activity. The business is thriving. To simplify this example for any New Readers, lets say it’s a analytical laboratory, an engineering and design company or…an old-school seminary.
The defining demographic of employees and management? rogers!*
*New Readers: the Everything Rule, if you please. Sure, there are such things as scottian aeronautical engineers and you can find clarklike CPAs in ‘the Big Four’. But remember! This is for fun with with our imaginations
Bonus!!!! (from an old post)… we totally promise(ish) to get back on topic right after:
if we didn’t have rogers you would not want to have to fly from Newark to Biloxi in a plane designed and built by a scott!
- jet airliners designed by scotts: very fast with at least 5 or 6 engines (not necessarily required to get off the ground, but make them louder than frickin anything)
- a part of the cabin has a basketball net/hockey/or batters box
- the stewards would have to wear bathing suits… male or female and they would carry those little air horn things (can of compressed air) to warn the unruly passengers or just in case they get bored
- the flight deck would have windows that open, so the pilot could yell at passing jets
0r a clark:
- instead of normal seats, there would be couches with pillows and quilts (that would have a disturbing tendency to slide around when the plane has to bank for final approach)
- the stewardesses would be scotts and stewards would be rogers
- there would be a bathroom-to-passenger ratio of nothing less than 1:2
ok….oh kay! a promise is a promis. To Misky’s question.
If you have ever been in such an environment (or have heard reliable tales of life in a rogerian dominated workplace) you will say…”I accept that there will be a significant level of intrigue and political maneuvering for advancement but…. but!! why do they (the rogers) seem to be able to overlook such behavior? Say, getting bad-mouthed before a performance review. Because (remember!! you’re a roger in the world of the Herd!) you let it go, because there will be a time when you are the one on the delivering end.
This is the most difficult aspect of the personal reality of the Herd Members for clarks to accept. The mutual agreement not to ‘do unto others’ when it’s not (yet) your turn.
Direct answer to Misky’s question: a roger seeks to become the center of the Herd, not the leader. Force/control is exerted by influence radiating out from one’s position in the Herd. There is no direct force.
Thanks! Misky
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