Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • AM GENERATION JONES, between the Boomers and GenX. The Yuppy generation. I was a

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_JonesI AM GENERATION JONES, between the Boomers and GenX. The Yuppy generation. I was a yuppie in the 80’s. I was a small child in the 60’s, and no part of it. I remember the oil crisis of the 70’s. Star Wars came out my senior year of high school. And I got out of college in 83. No affinity for boomers, and high identification with GenX’ers. First Tech Generation: Same as Gates, Ellison, and Jobs.

    FROM ELSEWHERE

    Reclassification

    When one considers that psychologists and sociologists agree any generation is defined by shared experiences of historical events and cultural influences during the developmental and formative years, and that generations generally span 10 to 12 years, the classification of Baby Boomers as a “generation” based solely on annual birth rates, from 1946 to 1964, was actually a misclassification. The emergence of so-called “late Boomers” as a subgroup of Baby Boomers was a start in correcting the error, and then Pontell’s research further revealed that the second half of the Boomers were different enough from the first half to break away from the classification altogether.

    How Jonesers Compare to Baby Boomers

    Though Boomers and Jonesers share some traits, such as idealism, they behave differently. Members of Gen Jones tend to be more practical and rational in their approach to change. Their childhood years were inspired by positive social change brought on by the Baby Boomers, but then sobering events of the 1970s—including Watergate, the oil embargo, rising inflation, and unemployment—forced them to be pragmatic as they entered adulthood. Jonesers still desire a world of equality, peace, love, and happiness, but their approach to achieving that goal runs down the middle of the road more than on the path of radical action.

    How Jonesers Behave

    Jonesers remember what life was like before the rise of technology, and they long for that simplicity. They are willing to unplug occasionally and also to use technology as a tool for social betterment and for personal gain and convenience.

    Regarding advertising, Generation Jones is turned off by hard-sell tactics and hype. They would rather have the facts and then decide for themselves if a product or service is right for them. But that doesn’t mean emotion is out of the equation altogether. If advertisers use nostalgic icons from the Jonesers’ childhood and teen years, such as the Snickers TV commercial blending Danny Trejo and Marcia Brady, or place their ads during reruns of The Monkees, they will get attention. And go ahead and include the URL in the ad because, according to Pontell, Jonesers spend more money online than Boomers do.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-13 12:48:00 UTC

  • “Hey Curt, when did you realize your “aspieness”? And when did your family?”—

    —“Hey Curt, when did you realize your “aspieness”? And when did your family?”— a friend

    I was always conscious of some significant difference, but I don’t remember when I understood it was the autism spectrum. I understood over a long period of time rather than in a moment.

    It’s more …. that because I was constantly suffering, I kept track of research in cognitive science, and then when the autism research became meaningful I realized that was the cause. ( I still subscribe to the dopaminergenic theory of cognitive evolution by the way – which is why I understand western ‘innovation’ or ‘restlessness’ as Hegel would say ).

    What I remember is the ‘peace’ it gave me, and that I lost all my frustration or guilt with other people and myself – and I learned to ‘love’ my gift of aspieness.

    This ‘trait’ is very common in my family and almost everyone has some aspect of it to some degree or other. My grandfather, My grandmother, me, my sister, my children all have some aspect of it.

    I have found that it makes my entire family happier to understand the cause of the difference.

    Another example of how psychology rather than biology was harmful: it made us think something was wrong, rather than ‘god intended us to be this way for a purpose’. Well it turns out that in fact, the spectrum of feminine psychosis/solipsism masculine analytic/autism is in fact how nature ‘intended’ so to speak.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 10:24:00 UTC

  • Natural Law Was Hard Work

    People have no idea how hard it was to solve this series of philosophical problems. Today I can look back, especially back to 2009-2010, and in retrospect see the progress as remarkable. And my confidence in my ability to communicate these ideas, and debate them, at least with other philosophers (not teachers of philosophy, but practicing philosophers). I worked my ….. off. Most people cannot even imagine working on the same problem with interest from the age of perhaps twelve; with dedication from the age of 30, with every free moment from the age of 40, and full time at the exclusion of all else from the age of 50, with willingness to give up everything material in order to solve it. Yet, while solving the original series of problems was something I felt was challenging – it was the art of developing the language with which to communicate such ideas in terms accessible at least to the very bright, and well read that was the most difficult. Articulating, communicating, and defending these ideas has been more work than solving them. Why? Because there is so much antique assumption, language and technique in the inventory of man’s minds, and it is an inventory that people do not want to “write off” – loss aversion reigns. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Natural Law Was Hard Work

    People have no idea how hard it was to solve this series of philosophical problems. Today I can look back, especially back to 2009-2010, and in retrospect see the progress as remarkable. And my confidence in my ability to communicate these ideas, and debate them, at least with other philosophers (not teachers of philosophy, but practicing philosophers). I worked my ….. off. Most people cannot even imagine working on the same problem with interest from the age of perhaps twelve; with dedication from the age of 30, with every free moment from the age of 40, and full time at the exclusion of all else from the age of 50, with willingness to give up everything material in order to solve it. Yet, while solving the original series of problems was something I felt was challenging – it was the art of developing the language with which to communicate such ideas in terms accessible at least to the very bright, and well read that was the most difficult. Articulating, communicating, and defending these ideas has been more work than solving them. Why? Because there is so much antique assumption, language and technique in the inventory of man’s minds, and it is an inventory that people do not want to “write off” – loss aversion reigns. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • ( My health both mental and physical seems to have recovered and I’m prolific ag

    ( My health both mental and physical seems to have recovered and I’m prolific again. lol )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 13:28:00 UTC

  • People have no idea how hard it was to solve this series of philosophical proble

    People have no idea how hard it was to solve this series of philosophical problems.

    Today I can look back, especially back to 2009-2010, and in retrospect see the progress as remarkable. And my confidence in my ability to communicate these ideas, and debate them, at least with other philosophers (not teachers of philosophy, but practicing philosophers). I worked my ….. off.

    Most people cannot even imagine working on the same problem with interest from the age of perhaps twelve; with dedication from the age of 30, with every free moment from the age of 40, and full time at the exclusion of all else from the age of 50, with willingness to give up everything material in order to solve it.

    Yet, while solving the original series of problems was something I felt was challenging – it was the art of developing the language with which to communicate such ideas in terms accessible at least to the very bright, and well read that was the most difficult.

    Articulating, communicating, and defending these ideas has been more work than solving them.

    Why? Because there is so much antique assumption, language and technique in the inventory of man’s minds, and it is an inventory that people do not want to “write off” – loss aversion reigns.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 10:10:00 UTC

  • ( Conversations with Mom. My bedroom. Small. Corner room with two windows. Wood

    ( Conversations with Mom. My bedroom. Small. Corner room with two windows. Wood paneling. White ceiling, antique hanging lamp over Bed, braided rug on oak floor. Two book shelves over headboard, Nightstand, Dresser, Desk, bookcase, small bookcase for just the encyclopedias, large map of the world, US declaration, constitution, and bill of rights. B&W TV sitting on the dresser. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-09 14:11:00 UTC

  • My 80 year old mother, reading my work on Agency, understanding it (wow), and ex

    My 80 year old mother, reading my work on Agency, understanding it (wow), and explaining it to her other 80 year old friends, who don’t, in ordinary language.

    (color me awed. damn.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-09 10:39:00 UTC

  • (OMG. too much stupid the past few days. Break time. I love people… but. You k

    (OMG. too much stupid the past few days. Break time. I love people… but. You know? sigh.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 11:21:00 UTC

  • Until 2015 I wouldn’t comment on politics. Got animated by the election. Possibi

    Until 2015 I wouldn’t comment on politics. Got animated by the election. Possibility that we could revolt under trump at lower costs to the revolutoinaries.

    Wish I hadn’t gone there tho.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 11:10:00 UTC