Engineered for Energy
The engineered world should be built around human health. You should not be feeling poor, afraid, tired, or lonely most of the time.
Tension
Engineering amplifies human characteristics. The world is more engineered than it ever has been, and sometimes it’s making us not healthy.
Starting a few hundred years ago, we saw a change in the human experience. We made machines that could do things faster than we could do them ourselves. Then, we put them in groups, called factories, to do things in quantities. We did ocean shipping lanes, a railroad, highways, and airports to transport the things we did in the factories to our towns and our homes.
We focused on doing more. The so-called “Industrial Revolution” engineered a world that focuses on doing, and we did a lot.
And we’re still doing a lot today, we’re doing more than we’ve ever done! Less than 100 years ago, we learned that we could build computers with microchips that could not only “do,” but also start to “think:” not unlike how a human body does, and a human mind thinks. We then saw “smart” appliances, those that could do bits of thinking for us, in addition to their doing. And again, we put them in groups, this time called “networks” and made a big group of them called the “internet.”
Sometimes though, we notice that our doing doesn’t feel very good, that our doing doesn’t appear to be making us very healthy.
Let’s look at some of the engineered systems, and think about some of the ways they make people feel.
Energy engineering sprinkles oils, gasses, and metals that make the air harder to breathe, puts mercury into the environment (for example into the trees and tuna fish), and hurts the water.
Education engineering is expensive, and sprinkles ideas in people that don’t make them very smart in the real world
Media engineering sprinkles ideas that make people more afraid
Banking engineering sprinkles ideas that make people more in debt, unable to change course
Food engineering makes animals sick, and sprinkles foods that makes people sick
Transportation engineering sprinkles toxic gasses that make the weather sick and creates congested places that make us feel grumpy
Home engineering sprinkles lots of wooden boxes make people poor, tired, fat, immobile
Work engineering makes it hard for people to think clearly
Health care engineering sprinkles removals that make it easy to destroy your body’s ability to heal itself
The engineering inside of the banking system, healthcare system, education system, food system, broadcast media system, transportation system, home system are making you feel bad. The tuna has mercury in it. The weather has craziness in it. The people have a mixture of fear, tiredness, and loneliness in them.
Release
Engineering spreads good energy.
People have friends, and are accepted
Food is ripened on the vine
Animals are loved and cared for
Sunlight is a super clean source of energy
Homes are built for activity and socialization
Travel is fresh and clean, easy and delightful
Health care prevents sickness
Banking engineering makes people rich
Media engineering makes people encouraged
Food engineering makes animals healthy, and sends foods that make people healthy
Home engineering makes people rich, energized, and healthy
Your body moves and heals itself
Here's a technique, learned from Apple (the world's first trillion dollar company) that we can apply to change the story, and help our engineering make us health.
Listen to the narrative
Imagine and write a new narrative
Sketch the new narrative's components
Create a high fidelity version of the new narrative