Create Value Versus Extraction

Be addition not Subtraction

11/4/24

This is a old column I wrote and somehow got lost in the shuffle. It is still very relevant and stood the test of time.

Mans last protected stranglehold….his own mind. Isaac Asimov The Second Foundation

Art is analog…. Digital is content. AKcidentalwriter

We are in a time when silence becomes a decision. AKcidentalwriter

In the Digital/A.I economy the winners will be the individuals/organizations that focus on adding value versus extracting it. We have been in an extraction type economy for much of humanity recorded history. The question now for the ‘forward visionary individuals’ is how can I ‘add not subtract’. Our tendency to extract (subtract) will not be as prominent going forward. Subtraction has brought us here now. We are in an allege climate change time because of this mindset.

Instead of stating when you are in a new situation what can I get out of this situation…. State what can I add! Isn’t this is a totally different mindset which has the propensity to make the world a better place. Isn’t that the goal?

Here is the insular Digerati’s mindset that needs to be understood by us so we grasp what is said here. In 2017 apparently Sean Parker, Facebook’s founding president, Here was the mindset:

• How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible? We need to give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while. It’s a social validation feedback loop. You are exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.

For me this is how the Digerati saw us. We are there for exploitation! They have taken advantage of the various human conditions which I have discussed consistently throughout with my books and here on ‘The Stack’! Greater society have been trained to always be working on producing content to feed the Digerati’s children (algorithm) and now A.I. Instead living we are producing content. Many are always looking through a phone recording instead of living in the moment. Many are always just seeking to generate content for these platforms to justify our lifestyle. If it is not reported then it is not real syndrome is all through society! Now with what is called an influencer all through society this will be more expansive and expensive. Real is starting to not exist in this era of being a content producer. We are always getting extracted while being told we are influencing or being in pursuit of being what is called influencer.

Adding value vs. extracting value from our moments carries a totally different energy. It is a positive fueled perspective. You are giving not taking! In our daily existence just altering this mindset will impact your life. Good luck and go forth. I thank you in advance to shake yourself out of some established habits of thought, beliefs and prejudices that come down to us from our past. Confront them! Question them. Then release with this new association I propose. Point to yourself to what is ahead of you not behind you.

________Addendum 4/12/26

I go through so much information and sometimes you hit the jackpot. I came across something which in theory I had noticed yet didn't put all together. The Controlling interests which dictate in many ways the things we see and do have this defining word which they have come up with and it is called ‘THE GESTELL’. I said wow… I have written about this but now I had the definition! The Gestell:

• Everything including humans is a resource on call! A river is no longer seen as a natural entity, but as a hydro electric resource, or a forest as timber. It restricts human perception to be this narrow thing. Agriculture is viewed as a chemical and industrial process rather than nurturing of life. It is all about yield. The environment is acreage to be developed… mountains to be mined. Humans as productive units in system rather than beings. The act of organizing the world!

I said holy Rice a Roni Batman! Please ponder what is said here! Please go back to the my premise the human is the product and things truly do add up. You then will have a understanding of this A.I data center moment taking place and understand the mindset of the people behind it.

Until next time……

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Disclaimer:

a. Absolutely no A.I utilized here in this periodical. Only H.I aka Human Intuitiveness

b. This column by the AKcidentalwriter for periodical Cultural Philosophical Fireworks and may not be used to train A.I

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