The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation : the constitutional foundations of the aspirational society

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The first freedoms and America's culture of innovation : the constitutional foundations of the aspirational society

Narain D. Batra

Rowman & Littlefield, c2013

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This is a book about the dynamics of the aspirational society. It explores the boundaries of permissible thought--deviations and transgressions that create constant innovations. When confronted with a problem, an innovative mind struggles and brings forth something distinctive--new ideas, new inventions, and new programs based on unconventional approaches to solve the problem. But this can be done only if the culture creates large breathing spaces by leaving people alone, not as a matter of state generosity but as something fundamental in being an American. Consequently, the Constitutional mandate of "Congress shall make no law..." has encouraged fearless speech, unrestrained thought, and endless experimentation leading to newer developments in science, technology, the arts, and not least socio-political relations. Most of all, the First Freedoms liberate the mind from irrational fears and encourage an environment of divergent thinking, non-conformity, and resistance to a collective mindset. The First Freedoms encourage Americans to be iconoclastic, to be creatively crazy, to be impure, thus, enabling them to mix and re-mix ideas to design new technologies and cultural forms and platforms, anything from experimental social relations and big data explorations to electing our first black president.

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PREFACE HOW THE BOOK WAS BORN Prometheus and Confucius Human Rights and Julian Assange ACKNOWLEDGMENT INTRODUCTION THE MAKING OF THE ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY Promethean Possibilities CHAPTER ONE TURBULENCE AND HARMONY The Cauldron Of Creativity Pragmatism Pursuing The Freedom Trail Wherever It Leads Court Ruling But Thank God: For Every Jerry Falwell There's Larry Flynt Crude And Outrageous Speech As Corrective The First Amendment Is More Than Free Speech Historians Need Lesson Doubtfully Trusting How Unscripted Life Enables Innovative Behavior State of Paranoia How The First Amendment Creates Mongrelized Offspring Creative Disequilibrium Warning When US Supreme Court Woke Up Freedom From Irrational Fear Tyranny Of Self-Censorship CHAPTER TWO HOW FREE SPEECH STIMULATES INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR The Re-Making Of Motherhood And Other Wonders Right Of Procreation Mitigating Reproductive Constraints Seeking Answers Freedom From Revealed Truth Eternal Optimism For Making The World A Better Place Sustainable Innovation Civic Participation Openness makes Americans inventive Global Brain-Grid Emerging CHAPTER THREE TELLING STORIES TO A HYPER-CONNECTED WORLD A Vigorous and Wide Open Newsosphere Unfiltered and Unbridled Harassment A Hazardous Vocation Balancing Competing Interests Trust, But Verify Outrageously Transparent Continuum of the Fake and the Real Unreliable Sources News: Simulation and dissimulation Dark Journalism Social Media and Online Civic journalism Empowering Citizen Journalists Exaggerated Fears News Media and Innovation Exceptional The Power of Weak Ties Building Trust in Social Networks Can Social Networking Create Social Capital Despite Weak Ties? WikiLeaks' Challenge Making Sense New Challenges CHAPTER FOUR COMMERCIAL SPEECH AND INNOVATION The Soft Power of Aspirational Brands Status Change Challenging Authority Commercial Speech and the Public Interest Language and Innovation Fired Up and Get Going Beautiful Deceptions Turning Ideas Into Assets Culture of Aspiration and the Arab Street Mashing Up Business Methods Patenting Corporate Speech CHAPTER FIVE FREE PRESS AND MARKETPLACE FUNDAMENTALISM The Dark Side of the Aspirational Society Sources of Corruption Insatiable at the Top Hit the Numbers or You are Out The Moral Neutrality of Numbers When Drug Companies Sell Snake Oil Free Press and Corporate Behavior Who Do You Call When Nothing Works? CHAPTER SIX CHINA'S AUTHORITARIANISM CHALLENGES AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM The Roar of the Dragon Vicious Capitalist Energy Extreme Nationalism No Gratitude Pacific Ocean Issue Can China Challenge America Without Embracing the First Freedoms? Pragmatism Dissidents in the Digital Age Human Rights Virtual Struggle Cyber Resistance The Persistence of China's Dissenters Will Information Be Free in China? Abundance Without Freedom Half-hearted Freedom The Future Is Dragon. Do You Hear It Coming? Points of Light Innovation in a Closed Society CHAPTER SEVEN POLITICAL INNOVATIONS OF THE ASPIRATIONAL SOCIETY To Live And Die In Freedom That's America But What About The Rest Of The World? The Decider-Warrior President War Games and Diplomacy Awesome Temptations of Neo-Imperialism Beware the Power of the Unexpected Building Pillars of Freedom on Soft Power How Does Soft Power Arise? The First Amendment and the Aspirational Society Just and Meritorious Society The Flight Of The Black Swan To The White House The Aspirational Society Must Not Shrug Empathy and Imperialism Propaganda CONCLUSION FREE SPEECH AS ENERGY Pushing the Boundaries of Permissible Thought Dilemma Dependent Origination of the Aspirational Society NOTES INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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