Our world still has its 'exiles'. In the old days exiles were people who got deported or worse, for speaking out against the tribe. And in those distant and insecure times, that was probably right. It was a kind of capital punishment back then and for very good reason.
But today in a world of untold abundance, these exiles should be treated like heroes because due to an enormous increase in productive power and human security, there's been a fundamental change. Yet these exiles are still being 'committed' for pointing at this change. Allow me to suggest how and why as follows. And more importantly, why the idea of protection and when its used in political economy - protectionism, are signals that humanity has still yet to evolve since those ancient times.
In primordial times, a tribe forms primarily for its own protection, when there is plenty of danger from nature surrounding and threatening the tribe.
This protection goes on to protect that tribe from other tribes as nature is still so powerful, competing tribes need to exterminate each other so there's enough for that tribe - both are fighting each other for limited resources still. So protection of the tribe from inevitable conflict is still mandatory.
Anyone seen as bringing the tribe under scrutiny, for anything at all, is seen as treacherous and is thus exiled for good reason. So an effect of this protection is to make exiles of anyone who appears to be undermining that protection. Even if it might be beneficial, the risks of nature are still overwhelming. And exile can still be justified when a threshold level of danger from nature has not yet been reached.
What is the effect in primordial times of being exiled? It is to all intents a death sentence. Life outside of the tribe, without its protection, becomes very hard indeed. The entire waking day is spent looking for food, water and shelter while defending against the weather and predators. Not to mention being a foreigner makes you an even greater threat to other tribes. So the tribe justifies itself when an insider starts working against the tribe in any way whatsoever - even if to point out potential new benefits, and makes an exile of them.
Today though, civilisation reached that threshold about a few centuries ago. Where so much stuff could now be produced that there's no longer a threat from nature requiring such protection. This threshold of productivity and security also overwhelms the significant losses caused by systemic corruption of social organisation wasting so much of it on grifters. And likewise in spite of the grotesque unjust distribution of wealth the world insisted on proceeding with there was so much wealth and security available all of it was moot.
These exiles were always way ahead of everyone else, earnestly pointing out how stupid the institution of protectionism actually was. And still is. These exiles still shine their light today and they are now hero's because there is no longer any existential threat from nature worth worrying about. The only threat is the inability of society to adapt to these spectacular new conditions. People wonder why we still go to war to fight foreign tribes when there's no good reason to do so any more - all the reasons have been defeated by economic progress. Everyone is a human. Alas, psychological and spiritual progress has yet to happen and it this which our heroes are urgently pointing at and being exiled for. So heroes
We have yet to evolve out of primordial times at a level of understanding the world which is not just about getting more stuff and staying protected - notwithstanding staggering levels of productivity which make it very hard even for a totally incompetent government to destroy an economy. We have not evolved, but can produce fantastic amounts of economic wealth.
This is the riddle of the sphinx world leaders and their high IQ advisors are presently struggling with - all they can so far promise is even greater levels of productivity, or much lower levels of waste. They cannot see this is how it's always been, there is no innovation taking place at higher levels, just stuff and protection. None of them are even considering how to help humanity evolve onto a higher plane now it's rendered itself free from the dangers of nature. They still play on the old lower level of sensual tribal materialist understanding - that insists we are still in great danger and the world is running short of everything.
We can see this happening live in action. For example the censorship which was rife during the pandemic. Woke politics. Systemic anti semitism. Pointless wars. So many heroes being sent to their exile.
Anyone who steps outside the cult of the tribe for a moment and says "look at it, there's no longer any need for protection and we're not running out of anything anymore" is immediately censored. Not by the wealth and power of globalists. But by The People. The People! And the people did not need to be taught how to do this by experts or teachers. They did it entirely autonomously as a collective - to protect the tribe. It is built in as if genetically. We have yet to evolve, fundamentally.
So we still have our 'exiles'. But today in a world of untold abundance and security, these exiles should be treated like heroes.