For the first time in human history, our modern environment is now selecting for numbness in our six senses. Those who have the dullest senses thrive best in our overstimulated environment, and can blissfully block out the unaesthetic world that humanity has created. Those who pay attention to their senses are at a disadvantage as they find themselves overwhelmed by an ugly, ill-designed dystopia. Nothing could be in greater contrast to the tuning of our DNA. Every second of the past three and a half billion years has inexorably pressed our trillions of ancestors towards the opposite goal: A maximal sensitivity to their environment. Natural man is both a prey animal and a predator, adapted to live or die according to the sensitivity of his hearing, acuity of his eyes, nuance of his touch, and discrimination of his smell. But industrial society is designed with machines in mind, not men. It’s full of blaring sounds and glaring lights, thrown around without though...