For all of Kim Il Sung's rhetoric, it is a basic fact that the average height of North Koreans is a full one inch shorter than South Koreans.
Iran could be much, much more than it is today. A 30-year comparison to any other country confirms it.
In free societies with free expression there is free enterprise. Ideas live or die on their own merits. Those ideas that gain support and that eventually flourish; end up creating economic, social and political value. This process is vital to prosperity. The ability to continuously market and exploit good ideas is at the very heart of success. One of the key measures of future success is the rate of investment and incorporation of new ideas.
Think about it, elections are in themselves, a public investment in the selection of alternate ideas for governance. Continuous elections, force political parties and politicians to generate new ideas to gain votes. Vibrant alternatives are necessary. Diversity in politics...in anything is an asset not a liability. If everybody agreed with everyone then no body brings any added value. A challenge, a difference, a change is in itself value added – whether in politics or economics.
In an economic sphere, many leading companies measure the percentage of their revenues generated by products introduced in the past 5 years or less. Iran has had nothing new to show anyone in 30 years.
Controlled societies, controlled markets, controlled enterprise ... all suffer from the same predicament ... a lack of innovation, and a lack of enterprise ...followed by economic demise and ultimate death. It does not matter if its Communist Party control, or Religious Theocratic control ...control is control.
Creativity is a key to survival. Human beings have survived because of our innate ability to be flexible and integrate solutions to changing environments. Ask Brazil's Red Indians in the Amazon and their genetically identical Alaskan Eskimo cousins if they had to be creative in finding ways to survive as they progressed from the North Pole to the Amazon. Freedom to create or freedom of enterprise is fundamental requirement of survival. Controlled societies regress. Controlled societies lose out. Continuous integration of improvements wins out...always. Freedom of enterprise is the best way to guarantee high integration of change – and its resulting prosperity.
Iran has missed huge opportunities. This loss of entrepreneurial activity and Iran's economic demise is an "Intellectual Holocaust" perpetrated on the nation of Iran.
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