Promote Peace . . . Embrace Capitalism
Today, the current leader of the free world was selected by a five-member committee from the Norwegian Parliament as the latest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace. We, at EngineWorks, recognize this as a tremendous advancement for the advocacy of individual rights, individual liberty, and individual responsibility. Each citizen of our great country can feel genuine pride in this worthy recognition from our Scandinavian ally.
‘Peace’, according to the 2009 American Heritage Dictionary, is defined as “a state of mutual harmony between people or groups, especially in personal relations” and as “the normal non-warring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world”. The wonderfully moral and basic tenet of laissez-faire capitalism is that it is a social-economic structure based upon the free exchange of value, between willing parties, in the absence of force.
In a democratic, capitalism-based system, individuals choose to put-forth effort, time, or assets in order to receive other desired assets (with the operative word in this sentence being ‘choose’). No other social structure exists – or has ever existed – that fosters a greater state of mutual harmony between individuals within a society.
As the late American philosopher and author, Ayn Rand, astutely identified, there are two irreducible causes of evil in the world, faith and force. The introduction of force into any social economic system, whether originating from a governing body or individual, poisons that system with the pursuit to annihilate the values of individual rights and individual freedom. This, in turn, becomes the primary impetus for non-peaceful conditions.
In recognition of the continuous peaceful pursuit of our nation, the Nobel committee praised our President’s creation of “a new climate in international politics”, and stated that Barack Obama had returned multilateral diplomacy to the center of the world stage. In fact, Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland justified the awarding of this prestigious award to the President of the United States of America by exclaiming, “You have to remember that the world has been in a pretty dangerous phase, and anybody who can contribute to getting the world out of this situation deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.”
Not since the fall of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has the peaceful tenets of capitalism been placed on such a global stage. Given that fact, we extend are sincere congratulations and appreciation to our current President!
Capitalism. Truly, the purest form of peace.