Human Needs and Manufacturing
Humans have primary needs and secondary wants and desires.
The human primary needs in order of time dependency are.
Air to breathe. A human can last 4 to 10 minutes without breathing.
A temperature range that allows 1 day with high or low body temperature.
Security to sleep or rest. A human can last 1 day without being vulnerable due to the shift from day to night.
Water to drink. A human can last 1 week without water.
Sleep. A human can last 11 days without sleeping.
Food. A human can last 4 - 6 weeks without eating.
Procreation. A human has a basic need to procreate and produce offspring annually.
In an ecosystem where the humans survived by foraging these needs could be maintained without manufacturing input.
When humans settled near a seasonal resource they became reliant on constantly enhancing the processing of turning resources into solutions to needs to survive.
This enhancement of solutions to needs is manufacturing.
Manufacturing then enhanced the solution to the primary needs to values beyond the basic need. These are called wants and desires.
This process could not be stopped since removal of manufacturing immediately reduced the populations ability to obtain their wants and desires and then removed there ability to obtain there basic needs.
As population density increased the manufacturing became such a necessary part of the society that it was used as a social control mechanism.
These were initially state imposed to allow for seasonal shortages. This was then adapted to by the administrations of societies by incentivising the population to adopt the mechanism as part of their social responsibilities.
Manufacturing through an incentivised population continued until all of the primary needs were commonly available.
Manufacturing then tried to fulfil all of the secondary wants and desires of the population.
This process became so powerful a pattern that societies used it as a stabilizing force to control population’s incentives and engineer there responses to political ideologies.
The mechanism pattern in our own time that the population follows is manufacture, produce, leisure, purchase, manufacture.
The incentive principle is the ability to purchase what the society produces and so benefit from all available abilities.
Manufacturing changed the incentive systems through involvement with the arts, media, money, working hours and leisure hours placed upon the population to ensure that they continued to use and manufacture the basic needs and also become dependant on wants and desires to ensure manufacturing growth, predictable values, qualities, appreciation of beauty, ideas of society and a belief in a conglomerate and yet all encompassing, culture.
Manufacturing developed the media of communication and benefitted from it through advertising.
Manufacturing changed money from goods to services and then to portable trade tokens with the emblem of the society on them.
Money became a portable manufacturing system that followed payment, purchase, payment.
Money has now become abstract. There is less actual metal and paper money in our economy than value or credit money.
Manufacturing has become funded on the belief in these false values.
Time was initially a fixed predictable manufacturing system that followed seasons.
Manufacturing changed this to be unlimited time.
Humans have become a manufacturing component in their own societies.
They were conditioned to need the incentive to contribute to survive.
The incentivization of need has evolved manufacturing for two billion years.
It now allows the whole planet to provide basic needs, wants and desires anywhere for any individual human.
Everything has become available to everyone all of the time.
All they had to do was ask and through communications it would be provided for.
All society requires is that you are available to manufacture it and that you shared your incentives to produce it with your culture.
This manufacturing ability has however been paid for by using up the existing natural energy, resources and environment of the planet.
This was a good strategy so long as the environment could replenish the population’s basic needs.
This is no longer the case however.
The environments ability to supporting mass manufacturing is over.
There are not enough resources to be made into energy to allow for it.
The depletion is; with increasing populations; moving humanity back to a survival level. To the level of basic need provision.
Manufacturing will end due to energy depletion.
Individuals will have to regain there independence from culture, dependence on society and belief in shared beauty, qualities and values.
Each individual in must begin to manufacture only for themselves and only when they need products.
They must recycle everything they produce.
It is a change that will end global mass manufacturing.
It will alter arts to a personal level of discovery.
It will alter media into a personal communication system.
It will alter money into an historic artefact.
It will alter working hours into a daily routine controlled by the individual not the state.
It will remove the social control mechanisms of the state previously used to keep the population motivated to work.
It is the greatest change in human developmental history for 2 million years.
It is a total change to our Architecture.
Ian K Whittaker
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09/08/2013
14/10/2020
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