Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
a manifestation of the creativeness of Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia. See 1) note-of-pedia at bottom of post.
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A word to New Readers:
The beauty part of the Wakefield Doctrine is how true and accurate it is when describing the personal characteristics and behavior of it’s three personality types, aka predominant worldviews*. That said, a little fun-with-our-imaginations is required here. One word: personal reality.
And in practical terms, only one of three. The reason for this aside yo, is a thing called ‘the Everything Rule’. Simply put, (and we’re telling you now so as not interrupt the lyric flow of this narrative lol) the Rule is: Everyone does everything, at one time or another. Obvious right? (if you answered ‘of course’… you’re in the right place.) The thing about the Doctrine is that while it describes how one (of the three types) might react/respond to a situation in a characteristic (and therefore consistently reliable manner), that doesn’t mean that… running out of time. Damn. What it means is that there are not three separate and distinct categories of life and such. There is no, “oh! That is something only a clark would do.” or “Only a scott would experience that situation.”
Remember how we said each of the three predominant worldviews reflected a different personal reality? It’s true. But in the interest of preventing the rogers from embarrassing theyselves by saying: “I must be a new, fourth, personality type. A special ‘all three at once’ type. To this we say, “No. Stop that. That is simply not how this thing of ours works.
We use the term ‘manifest’ to account for the fact that clarks, scotts and rogers do not inhabit three different realities. Try this:
Occupation: police person (aka ‘cop’). All three can be a cop. What the reality of the occupation is? Very different for each. We’ll leave this as a homework assignment. (Hint: ‘Predators love to ___ prey’, ‘With a lot of ____ and other special effects’, When successful they totally enjoy ___(ing) their kills/captures.
there ya go. let us know if you have any questions. While it is true that ‘You can’t get the Doctrine wrong’ It is very true that a person can’t willfully mix shit up. Thing of it is, we (and this means all those of us who think this is a useful, productive and fun additional/supplemental perspective on reality?) we’ll know. And, in answer to the thought-balloon question out there, ‘No. No one is going to correct you. At least not ex cathedra. The only cost of getting it wrong is that you miss out of the utility and fun. Kind of the whole idea, ya know. (Usually when a person ‘gets it wrong’ they figure it out or just don’t bother. After all it’s just a blog. And a little tiny group of people who get a kick out of the strange and unusual.)
the Wakefield Doctrine (…break time!)
November 10, 2009Apropos of nothing, one of my favorite sayings is ‘you can’t step in the same river twice’. If this internet, and by extension the blogosphere is not the perfect proof of the truth of this statement, then I am going to sit here and wait for roger to get it into his head to write some more Comments. Because even though the Wakefield Doctrine itself has not changed, if anything the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers has become even more ‘real’, the writing and therefore the writers have been changing.So what? I’ll tell you so what!
I am writing this prima facie that there is a reader. You, in fact, are that person. (You read therefore I have written). Without this assumption there would be no reason to write. Independent of the practical value of the Wakefield Doctrine in terms of understanding those around us, the drive here is to be heard [read:read ha, ha]So if we are writing this on the assumption there is a reader, then whats the river shit all about? Huh?(I said ‘apropos of nothing’ didn’t I?) But since you asked, the point I guess is to get a sense of the fundamental impermanence of reality. The fact that there is nothing of the past that immutably connects to the present. Only our willingness to assume that we all keep to our scripts.I think that noise you hear is the baleful mewling of a herd of rogers. Rogers, as we should all know by now are the guardians of continuity. By maintaining the past through rules and science, laws and traditions rogers let us learn! More so rogers are the reason we are self aware. Scotts are pure energy, here and now, no past no future, not much to build a civilization on. By keeping the belief that the world is by nature a quantifiable place, rogers allow us to stop and reflect on what was. Myths and legends are as important a contribution from the rogerian faction as is the science and engineering that they also have given us.(Quick break.) (Hey clark, easy up on the metaphysics there, pal! The rogers are getting glassy eyed and the scotts are starting to gnaw on the furniture)(OK, I get. Anyone for Bullet Points? (Everyone loves Bullet Points!)
- rogers are your engineers, accountants, doctors (but not surgeons)
- rogers are your carpenters and craftsmen, (but not your General Contractors)
- rogers are your teachers (at least the ones that end up becoming school adminstrators)
- scotts are your performers, your front men/women
- there are three occupations in the world: salesmen, scientist and machine operator
- scotts are your salesmen, not necessarily literally, just the person who is driven to make others conform to their Will
- clarks are your scientists, the creative one of the three, looking for what isn’t, not at all concerned with practical application
- rogers are your machine operators, not just engineers, but musicians, any one who needs to follow the rules
OK.
Time to get back to the show!
When we last left her, roger was sidling up to the scottian executive. Thinking that the wind was to her back she would be safe. But in walks a clark, making a fearsome racket of ‘why is this?’ and ‘what is that?’. Drat! the scott has caught a scent.
Run away! Run away!
*ProTip: get used to using the term predominant worldview. It will make learning (and more, way more importantly, enjoying our little personality theories. Hundreds of posts have been written on this subject, but real quick: the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the relationship we maintain with the world around us. As in, like, right from before we could even talk. We’re born with the potential to have three, settle on one and, here’s the key: develop our social strategies, styles of interpreting the immediate world (babies at this point, remember?) and practice. In other words our personality type. We’re fond of saying, ‘In terms of the Wakefield Doctrine’s view, we all have the perfect personality type on the basis of the world as we experience it.
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