That video explains Dougie as well as anyone. Too bad the guy turns it into a motivational life system--it isn't a bad one as those things go, but there are other interesting ways to explain how to live.  ? 

His reading of the 3 Coopers also points up a big difference between the Dougie/Janie sex scene and the one with Cooper and Diane with "sex magick"--the reason for sex is tied into the focus on present pleasures (for Dougie, sex is like really amazing cake!) versus the focus on recreating something from a past with Diane (the theory is that they were recreating a past ritual). And Doppelcoop rapes. I guess the "future" focus is not on enjoying the present or tying the act to the past, but on getting to a goal. 

Through the lens of future v past v present does a lot for me.  DoppelCoop has all these futuristic gadgets and plans and sacrifices everything along the way towards his perceived goal.  Good Coop is awash in the dark recesses and prisons of missteps and trying to fix mistakes to make right this terrible wrong that's literally sapped the last 25 years of his life...  DougieCoop drifts from experience to experience; wealth, happiness, joys and love. 

I know that's just a summary of the point we're talking about here, but it kinda strikes a major chord with me that it could very well be the theme of the whole damn thing.  I have no trouble thinking Lynch would be exactly this emphatic on that point.  Live in the now.  full stop.  I mean, they even say it to us, twice.  Audrey held captive in the past.  Even the zombies of youth coming out of nowhere for Bobby as he sits with his regrets and troubled offspring.  word.       

(I only watched the first half of that video - sounds like I shouldn't worry about the rest). 

I would think Lynch would hug the dude who made this video and cheer him on for turning it into a motivational life system--despite my slight annoyance with it. I agree with you--I think he'd probably say if you can turn TP into a better way to live in the now and appreciate the now, that's golden.

And don't forget that Coop was always Mr. Jackpots