People tend to either infringe on others or keep to themselves. We are all on this behavioural spectrum, somewhere between letting it all out to keeping it all in.

When a political leader wants to annex a neighbouring country, it is only what the politically unconstrained have been doing forever. Fair or unfair, human or inhuman was never an issue where might is right.

Capturing and exploiting external resources on one’s terms only was never sustainable. No amount of blaming can hide that one’s development is lopsided.

It does not matter whether you are a nationalist socialist or a ditto capitalist. The nationalist dogma in any shape or form embodies unsustainable limitations. Modern existential reciprocity requires a more expansive sentiment than the nationalist “where I was born and grown”.

Expanding perpetually and being continuously annexed is the new global context. Goods, services and ideas travel at lightning speed from one corner of the world to another. New technology changes any environment and presents all with promises and challenges.

Prout is an emerging socio-economic thought that emphasises the growth of one’s all-round, balanced strength before interfering with others. When a society is self-reliant in basic goods and services, it would be ready to merge with similarly positioned societies for further expansion and higher development.

Sound development starts with the local—from home. Efforts for self-reliance naturally produce policies for continuous all-round growth. Together, such-minded societies would make a balanced and mutually productive world.