Bubbles, Boxes and Individual Freedom

About the Book

This book is about the thinking and courage to do what needs doing to innovate and build prosperity.  It is a book about the benefits of individual freedom.  Schools teach children to color, write and print between the lines, observe the rules, wrap their minds in a bubble of disciplines to discourage living out of a community box.  Children learn to behave as members of a managed herd, avoiding challenging that which is accepted and established by tradition.  In art, however, unusual, deviant, almost outlaw behavior is admired. Artists existing outside the limits of the herd can even improve the herd. American innovators are artists causing prosperity from their thinking, acting, creating and inventive minds changing things for the better.  Americans left the Old World limitations behind, where thinking and acting out of the box was discouraged, creating a New World almost 400 years ago.  They proved individual freedom and creative elbowroom was the only source of prosperity, which explains American exceptionalism and what this book is all about.

About the Author

Clay Barham: Active in politics, a candidate for the California legislature, stand-in talk show host for ABC, and educated in physical and behavioral sciences, with a Ph.D. in sociology. Spent many years in business start-ups, turnarounds, as an organizational psychologist, outplacement and career counselor, and wrote How to Live with Yourself and Like You (Kensington 1976), an allegorical presentation for the cure of mindlessness, The Foundations of Modern American Conservatism and Liberalism; The Roots of Freedom and Tyranny, American Book Publishers, 2007, The Changing Face of Democrats, Eloquent Books 2009, and many others on the topic of individual freedom.  See also www.claysamerica.com for more information.

Diana Barham received her Masters Degree in Fine Art at Pratt Institute in New York and exhibited works in California, Washington and New York, cofounder, writer for Acid to Zinc periodical.