Lucid experience is tactile. It begins that way.

It becomes emotional lucidity. A general feeling of well being.

Resource manipulation enables us to engage in activities which are countervailing to entropy.

Lucid being is countervailing to entropy. Enabling perpetual energy as one wave tranduces another.

Our success at resource manipulation and exploitation is how we measure ourselves. How much money did we net?

How much money we make is supposed to be in accordance with how much value we create. Its often not. It is in sync with how successful we are at exploiting resources.