Extraction, from the earth, from the surroundings,
from people, from whatever is the next opportunity is how enterprise is being
defined. This predatory mindset is what frames entrepreneurship in most part of
the world while possibilities of education is reduced as conduit. There is no
care or concern as long as extraction is multiplied into money, and showcased
as blessing. In primitive exploitation driven societies these are revered channel
for personal aggrandizements and social mobility. As humans shifted from hunter
gatherer -which ofcourse had its benefits, the extraction mindset took over. The
extraction of land was how agricultural societies took root; humans were
graded, animals were reared for extraction while exploitative systems took hold. When the immediate becomes abstract
commodity relations are transactional. There is an inability to connect to
individual or reality since extraction works through dehumanizing, abstraction
as voters/followers/consumers. There is inability to connect through emotions
of vulnerabilities but grander conceptions of reality. So, you see trees to cut
not forest to sustain. There is an incapacity to be part of nature or thriving
moment in ecosystem. Extraction is always exclusionary. It assumes a special
place in universe while carrying predatory beggar’s mindset.
