Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
From the year: 2015
From the Month (of) April
(Since you ask) the date was the 18th!
Actually, this is a bit of a twofer… well, maybe more a threelet (a Reprint and Alphabet Rodeo*) and…. and! A Ten Sinks of Smartass!
provocative (prəˈvɒkətɪv)
adj
1. acting as a stimulus or incitement, esp to anger or sexual desire; provoking: a provocative look; a provocative remark.*“…finally a word we can sink our teeth into!!!” (said nearly every scott, at one time or another). Find me another word that does more to generate images of lipstick and slinky dresses**, not that that’s what today’s Post is going to be about …much.
In the words of a clark, ‘yeah, no! but….‘ in the early days of this blog, we saw any number of occasions when, searching in earnest for an illustrative metaphor for one of the worldviews, or a fictional encounter between members of the three worldviews, meant to demonstrate how our worlds are experienced differently, we’ve been met with the response. ‘what?!! did you just say that scotts are predators??’ (yes)…. “I’m not sure that a photo of a cow is really such a nice way to begin a discussion of rogers, don’t your think you’re being a little offensive?” (no).
I’ll say this for certain, the behavioral metaphors that are associated with the three worldviews, are exaggerated and yet ring true, they are over-the-top examples of ways that people perceive the world and yet, when used as a predictor of future behavior, are uncannily accurate. And it’s fun. That’s the other thing that I can say for certain, all that is written in the Posts*** that collectively are the Wakefield Doctrine blog, is written with a sense of affection for each of the three personality types. And this should be anything but surprising, seeing how we all have the potential, the capacity, to experience the world as any of the three personality types do.
Of course, the way ‘provocative’ is manifested in each of the three worldviews is as different as…well, as the three worldviews. scotts come to mind first, as the definition that we used above, anger or sexual desire. rogers, not so much. clarks, oddly (lol, well, duh!) enough, clarks can be very provocative people, in a secret, roundabout way, of course.
Since I have a TToT Post to add to this, lets run out some favorite statements that help us appreciate today’s Word.
rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless
scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb and clarks are crazy
scotts get angry, clarks get mad and rogers get resentful
(stop me anytime, remember: ‘acting as a stimulus or incitement’!)
* courtesy of free dictionary.com
** at least for those of us blessed to live in the happy and peaceful land of Y Chromia! I assume the womenfolk, (to use the proper technical psycho-socio-cultural term for members of Gender X….), will find their mental drive-in movie playing a similar but different film (you ‘not-old people’, you have heard of drive-in theaters? please say ‘yes’)
*** those Posts that I wrote, which are not all the Posts in this blog.
TTOT
1 through 4: I am truly grateful for being a part of this TToT bloghop. (Increasingly as I experience the…er experience of participating in the A-t0-A Blog Challenge! Not that there are not very nice people and interesting bloggers and skilled writers among the 1893, 1723….1669 entrants. There are. But I appreciate more than ever the TTOT (not that I’m gonna take up needlepoint or watching the Lifetime Network or anything too girlistic)… I guess what I’m responding to is the sense of community that was our Ms Roger’s original goal for this here bloghop here.
5) I will have to invoke the SBoRs rule governing two part grat lists… work demands and sleep insists, leaving me with little time to do a proper List.
6) (not sure if I should classify this as ‘grateful for technology’ or ‘grateful for roadside cows’!)
7) I am beyond grateful for ‘the youtube’ as the endless source of referential material! I mean, it’s like a frickin combination ‘time machine’, ‘term paper writing service’ and high school reunion all rolled into one! (For example: I was researching tomorrow’s post and wanted to say something about the effect of the behavior of a scott (when the scott and a clark are hanging out) when a more dominant scott enters the social context… and so I went looking for an old Warner Brother’s cartoon… and, as Lizzi used to say, ‘Boom’! New Readers? in this clip both characters are scotts...
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10) you know it’s gonna be 1.3 of the Secret Book of Rules, right?
* Not it’s real name but everyone was into it doing the aplphabet letter a day thing… when you look at the comments you see how busy the Doctrine was back on a TToT weekend. Click this (Hey! That’s Dyanne back then… and now, twenty-three years later, she’s still cranking out the Artichoke-to-Zenobia posts, even back then)
(cue up Miss Bonnie and her ‘magic’ mirror)
Hey! In those comments and among those Hostinae, did I not see zoe and val and… holy shit! That’s Christine! our first second-generation scottian FOD!! damn! (a course, our first, first generation scottian FOD was our Miz AKH.
