Jens Oliver Meiert
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The German answer to Winston Wolfe
The German answer to Winston Wolfe
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#Sexuality, #love, #governance.
“Western society has attempted to force all expression of love and devotion into sexual activity, or otherwise ban it entirely. Sexual performance is considered the one safe way of using the great potential of human emotions. When it seems to you that society is becoming licentious, in many ways it is most restrained and inhibited. It means that all options except sexual freedom have been denied. The great force of love and devotion is withdrawn from personal areas of individual creativity through purposeful work. It is being withdrawn from expression through government or law. It is being denied expression through meaningful personal relationships, and forced into a narrow expression through a sexuality that then will indeed become meaningless.
It has been said by some women working toward ‘equal #rights’ that the species has only used half of its potential by suppressing the abilities of women. In larger terms, however, each individual suffers whenever identity is defined primarily as a matter of sexual orientation.”
—Jane Roberts: The Nature of the Psyche, https://goo.gl/1WqYg5.
What I find most interesting here is the expressing of love “through government or law.” This is exemplary for the thinking we need, thinking that throws off some of the restrictions we’re not even aware of anymore. Loving government, loving law, also loving #tech (http://goo.gl/ImJgqo )—these are all ideas that would move us forward.
“Western society has attempted to force all expression of love and devotion into sexual activity, or otherwise ban it entirely. Sexual performance is considered the one safe way of using the great potential of human emotions. When it seems to you that society is becoming licentious, in many ways it is most restrained and inhibited. It means that all options except sexual freedom have been denied. The great force of love and devotion is withdrawn from personal areas of individual creativity through purposeful work. It is being withdrawn from expression through government or law. It is being denied expression through meaningful personal relationships, and forced into a narrow expression through a sexuality that then will indeed become meaningless.
It has been said by some women working toward ‘equal #rights’ that the species has only used half of its potential by suppressing the abilities of women. In larger terms, however, each individual suffers whenever identity is defined primarily as a matter of sexual orientation.”
—Jane Roberts: The Nature of the Psyche, https://goo.gl/1WqYg5.
What I find most interesting here is the expressing of love “through government or law.” This is exemplary for the thinking we need, thinking that throws off some of the restrictions we’re not even aware of anymore. Loving government, loving law, also loving #tech (http://goo.gl/ImJgqo )—these are all ideas that would move us forward.
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#Design.
I don’t deem this design-related amicus brief seminal, as +Fast Company pitched it [1], but it’s an insightful read. Here are the noteworthy bits as I perceive them (following the same process [2] as for the books I read).
“Congress determined in 1887 that ‘it is the design that sells the article, and so that makes it possible to realize any profit at all.’—H.R. Rep. No. 1966 (1886), reprinted in 18 Cong. Rec. 834 (1887). History and science have proven that judgment correct.”
“By stealing designs, manufacturers steal not only the visual design of the product, but the underlying functional attributes attached to the design of the product, the mental model that the consumer has constructed to understand the product, and the brand itself and all associated attributes developed at great expense in the marketplace.”
“History shows that a product’s visual design drives sales and becomes the
product itself in the minds of consumers.”
“Design is particularly important for consumer products with complex technology.”
“Successful technology companies use design to differentiate themselves from competitors.”
“Immediately upon seeing a product, the mind forms ‘beliefs about product attributes and performance.’—Peter H. Bloch […].”
“[…] ‘attractive things make people feel good.’—Donald A. Norman […].”
“[…] ‘a beautiful product… can completely overpower negative functionality information.’—Gratiana Pol et al. […].”
“[…] when consumers are cognitively overloaded with multiple functions and choices, and particularly where those functions are perceived as undifferentiated across products, ‘aesthetics (is) weighted more heavily in the choice decision,’ and consumers are ‘more likely to select the better looking option, even when there (is) a price premium.’”
“Section 289 requires disgorgement of ‘total profits’ because it is the infringing design that sells the product and makes it possible to realize profits.”
“A design patent is infringed ‘(i)f, in the eye of an ordinary observer, giving such attention as a purchaser usually gives, two designs are substantially the same, if the resemblance is such as to deceive such an observer, inducing him to purchase one supposing it to be the other.’”
“[…] Jobs’ belief that ‘(d)esign is… not just what (the product) looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.’”
“In today’s world, there is ‘just one chief differentiator’ when it comes to cars: design. […] Therefore, one who copies a car’s design should disgorge all profits.”
[1] https://goo.gl/6qwmgi
[2] http://meiert.com/en/blog/20131016/10-books-a-month/
I don’t deem this design-related amicus brief seminal, as +Fast Company pitched it [1], but it’s an insightful read. Here are the noteworthy bits as I perceive them (following the same process [2] as for the books I read).
“Congress determined in 1887 that ‘it is the design that sells the article, and so that makes it possible to realize any profit at all.’—H.R. Rep. No. 1966 (1886), reprinted in 18 Cong. Rec. 834 (1887). History and science have proven that judgment correct.”
“By stealing designs, manufacturers steal not only the visual design of the product, but the underlying functional attributes attached to the design of the product, the mental model that the consumer has constructed to understand the product, and the brand itself and all associated attributes developed at great expense in the marketplace.”
“History shows that a product’s visual design drives sales and becomes the
product itself in the minds of consumers.”
“Design is particularly important for consumer products with complex technology.”
“Successful technology companies use design to differentiate themselves from competitors.”
“Immediately upon seeing a product, the mind forms ‘beliefs about product attributes and performance.’—Peter H. Bloch […].”
“[…] ‘attractive things make people feel good.’—Donald A. Norman […].”
“[…] ‘a beautiful product… can completely overpower negative functionality information.’—Gratiana Pol et al. […].”
“[…] when consumers are cognitively overloaded with multiple functions and choices, and particularly where those functions are perceived as undifferentiated across products, ‘aesthetics (is) weighted more heavily in the choice decision,’ and consumers are ‘more likely to select the better looking option, even when there (is) a price premium.’”
“Section 289 requires disgorgement of ‘total profits’ because it is the infringing design that sells the product and makes it possible to realize profits.”
“A design patent is infringed ‘(i)f, in the eye of an ordinary observer, giving such attention as a purchaser usually gives, two designs are substantially the same, if the resemblance is such as to deceive such an observer, inducing him to purchase one supposing it to be the other.’”
“[…] Jobs’ belief that ‘(d)esign is… not just what (the product) looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.’”
“In today’s world, there is ‘just one chief differentiator’ when it comes to cars: design. […] Therefore, one who copies a car’s design should disgorge all profits.”
[1] https://goo.gl/6qwmgi
[2] http://meiert.com/en/blog/20131016/10-books-a-month/
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10 #Photos III:
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160808/10-photos-3/.
Favorite photographs, two more handfuls.
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160808/10-photos-3/.
Favorite photographs, two more handfuls.
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Life’s Golden #Rules:
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160804/lifes-golden-rules/.
First time I quoted from the Bible.
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160804/lifes-golden-rules/.
First time I quoted from the Bible.
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“As even the finest landscape, seen daily, becomes monotonous, so does the most beautiful face, unless a beautiful nature shines through it. The #beauty of to-day becomes commonplace to-morrow; whereas #goodness, displayed through the most ordinary features, is perennially lovely. Moreover, this kind of beauty improves with age, and time ripens rather than destroys it.”
—Samuel Smiles: Character, https://goo.gl/JjAhks (1871).
—Samuel Smiles: Character, https://goo.gl/JjAhks (1871).
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“There are more #good people than bad in the world, and the bad get the upper hand merely because they are bolder.”
—Samuel Smiles: Character, https://goo.gl/JjAhks (1871).
And fantastic people there are; I don’t like this distinction between “good” and “bad.” (Yet the book is one of my favorites, I’m sure I’ve mentioned.)
—Samuel Smiles: Character, https://goo.gl/JjAhks (1871).
And fantastic people there are; I don’t like this distinction between “good” and “bad.” (Yet the book is one of my favorites, I’m sure I’ve mentioned.)
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“The male in particular has been taught to separate love and sex, so that a schizophrenic condition results that tears apart his psyche—in operational terms—as he lives his life. The expression of #sexuality is considered male, while the expression of love is not considered manly. To some extent or another, then, the male feels forced to divide the expression of his love from the expression of his sexuality. It would be disastrous for women to follow the same course.”
—Jane Roberts: The Nature of the Psyche, https://goo.gl/1WqYg5.
Just as food for thought. I like sharing such quotes to either underscore something or to nudge thinking about the questions covered in them.
—Jane Roberts: The Nature of the Psyche, https://goo.gl/1WqYg5.
Just as food for thought. I like sharing such quotes to either underscore something or to nudge thinking about the questions covered in them.
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The Bio Enhancement Paradox?
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160802/the-bio-enhancement-paradox/.
Or, what if Donald Trump was Iron Man.
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160802/the-bio-enhancement-paradox/.
Or, what if Donald Trump was Iron Man.
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+WordPress Themes and Web #Development:
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160731/wordpress-web-development/.
Thoughts on WordPress standard themes, and why their #quality matters.
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20160731/wordpress-web-development/.
Thoughts on WordPress standard themes, and why their #quality matters.
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