journal/Archive/Blog Drafts/MED - Control of Power.md

Levels

• Men
• Horses
• Saddles

The more important [invention] was the saddle, which arrived in the West as a barbarian innovation in the first century after Christ, and which gradually replaced the older horse-blanket and riding cushions. The saddle, with its rigid frame, although it did not add to a rider's lateral stability (a presupposition of mounted shock combat), nevertheless helped to prevent him from falling over his horse's tail. Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn Townsend White

• External Combustion
• Internal Combustion
• Automatic Transmissions
• Electric Vehicles`
• Self-driving vehicles

The trend is away from 'relational' and towards 'transactional'. If you reject the good you were given, a void is created and you seek to fill the void