Extractors exempt themselves from local exchange cultures and show incuriosity toward inhabitants

Evidence

What is perplexing about the Americans is the way they exempt themselves from the cultures of exchange that animate the oasis. They arrive with equipment, but no goods to trade and no stories. Possessed of a bewildering incuriosity, they reserve their most intense investigations for the earth below, not the surface people; bewitched by the unseen geology, the Americans remain indifferent to the eco-cultural history. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 241

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay angle: extractive institutions as defined by incuriosity and exempting themselves from reciprocity — the ‘no stories to trade’ institution as distinct from hospitality/care economies.
• ADDENDUM: Pairs conceptually with the ‘Corporations manufacture doubt’ and distancing-strategy material from ch8/ch11 on how extractors avoid accountability and local regard.
• XREF: connects to: Becoming ethically naturalized to a place requires abandoning the immigrant mindset of extraction. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 777; Resource rebellions stem from a clash between short-term extractors and long-term residents — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 51; Oasis culture was a cosmopolitan exchange economy before extractive rationality dismantled it — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 241 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The self-sufficiency of a dominant civilization produces indifference to foreign learning #corroborates (0.82)
• Ethnocentrism can coexist with indifference, not hostility, toward out-groups #corroborates (0.78) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1399