Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • I am not sure that I understand what has happened but Fashion just changed in re

    I am not sure that I understand what has happened but Fashion just changed in response to status signals worldwide.

    I can see it in the economy – which drives fashion. I can see it in fashion this fall. I can feel my own taste shift. I can feel what my intuition is rejecting. I can see designers are confused as well.

    It feels like a search for a less flamboyant conservatism. And thats harder than the experimentalism thats been universal for so long.

    I sensed german influence was ascendant, and that new york had lost touch, but not that Californian influence was in decline. It is partly generational as well as economic as the boomers and their hedonistic proletarianism wane in influence.

    I wish I had contacts at the fashion editorial level.

    This will drive me nuts until I figure it out.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 10:31:00 UTC

  • PERSPECTIVE –“Federal anti-climate change spending is now running at $11 billio

    PERSPECTIVE

    –“Federal anti-climate change spending is now running at $11 billion a year, plus tax breaks of $20 billion a year. That adds up to more than double the $14.4 billion worth of wheat produced in the United States in 2013.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-15 15:03:00 UTC

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    http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2013/03/14/if-alan-greenspan-wants-to-end-the-fed-times-must-be-changing/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-15 14:46:00 UTC

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    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304418184900344

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-15 14:45:00 UTC

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    http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119433/if-isis-not-islamic-then-inquisition-was-not-catholic

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-15 14:44:00 UTC

  • American in-group dating bias is up about 25% or more this year, (or conversely,

    American in-group dating bias is up about 25% or more this year, (or conversely, out-group dating is down) and the spread continues to expand. The exception being Asian women for both white and asian men, and white men in general. The numbers are distorted believe it or not by lower dislike of blacks by whites than dislike of blacks by asians and latinos. I’m getting most of this second and so I haven’t seen the data. And what I suspect, is that the numbers are being driven largely by increases in Latino and Asian populations on the west coast, both of which demonstrate more stratification in mating preferences than whites. But net of the data trend is that we overwhelmingly mate in-group.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-15 07:34:00 UTC

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/books/review/francis-fukuyamas-political-order-and-political-decay.html?_r=0

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-14 17:03:00 UTC

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    Paul Krugman’s Philosophy of Economics, and What It Should Be

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-14 16:54:00 UTC

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    http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-geography-of-genius

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-14 16:53:00 UTC

  • (Interesting email exchanges with Jan Lester thanks to Lee C Waaks. I don’t thin

    (Interesting email exchanges with Jan Lester thanks to Lee C Waaks. I don’t think it’s going to be fruitful, because really, it’s too much to ask of him to absorb that much content. But I think I understand his frame of reference well enough now. I just need to understand his definition of property that can be transgressed against. And then I can restate his central argument in propertarian language – and agree with him or not. Just confirms that what I’m doing is pretty awesome when you start to work with it, but for the paradigmatically obligated into the enlightenment fallacies and institutional academic philosophy, for other than a few it’s just too much. People just don’t study the full suite of philosophies of, politics, ethics, economics, law and computation and math. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-13 11:47:00 UTC