Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(hold on, gotta this thing down ‘on paper’ before we lose the thread. ...it takes creativity to recognize a manifestation of creativity. there! …sorta)
Let’s see how we did.
A Comment on our contribution to jenne and ceayr‘s bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge from last week is the set up for today’s post. It blew-up in our head when reading a comment from Violet on our contribution to last Friday’s prompt. Actually, now that we reflect on the sequence, it was our Reply to V’s comment that ignited this, “ooh!! ooh!!…” response.*
Violet wrote:
Is this what they call lascivious dreaming? Because if that’s not the case, I am going with you drugged my drink.
We replied:
…What a nice thing to say!**
*You intuitively know that not only do different people hear the same thing differently, but the reality of the thing (said) is not ever exactly the same
** and an implied compliment to everyone’s favorite personality theory… of the three types, not only is one the source of genuine creativity…. wait a minute! you just provided an err won’t use the more giant word ‘inspiration’ (we’re just the curator and All)… lets say, topic!
cool
New Readers: A couple of things you might want to jot down. (Not doing a full ‘old lecturer warning of exam questions’ schtick) but… that first asteroid refers to the fundamental belief required in order to enjoy the Wakefield Doctrine, to wit, ‘reality is, to a small but discernible degree, personal.’ ok? the second ** follows and is the insight inspired by our correspondence.
With the ‘Everything Rule’ firmly in mind, we will state that the quality/characteristic/ability…and, what-the-hell, capability to manifest creativity is different for each of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine:
- the Outsider (clarks) exhibit genuine creativity. we mean that what clarks do is to bring into the world/existence that which had not existed prior
- the Predator (scotts) make us believe we are seeing something that we’re amazed by and are (pretty sure) is incredible but that’s because we don’t yet know to look behind the curtain
- the Herd Member (rogers) are remarkable in their ability to re-assemble known and everyday parts of the world in pleasing (and sometimes, quite satisfying) forms.
Well… that is mostly what we had in our head when the idea began to coalesce.
One take away: clarks always understand. they may be as wrong as the thing they understand, but they always understand.
*think you old? reference is from ‘Welcome back Cotter” yeah, that old.