Freitag, 26. Dezember 2008

The free world has convincing arguments


If you believed, it is freedom of speech, the right to travel within your means or access to decent information that makes the western capitalist world superior - you are wrong.
It is the innovation that stems from a free society that provides the edge over those systems where thinking out of the box is heavily discouraged.
Today's Washington Post exemplifies that brilliantly. Extracting information from the rural and not so well educated Afghan population on what and where the Taliban are plotting their next attacks have not been to successful until ... they tried Viagra.
Originally it was developed for hypertension and angina pectoris, but the scientist of Pfizer in the British city Sandwich thought one step beyond and provided the international intellegence agencies with a compelling tool to work towards a free and western world.
Sex sells.