8 Values

All 8 values are important to me, but the one I felt really resonated with my beliefs was Promote Innovation. Promote Innovation is crucial in the world we live in because free expression can encourage people to challenge beliefs, create new things, and share new ideas. When people express themselves by showing us their ideas and what they create we get to learn what someone else thinks. Another thing we get out of this is we can start to understand and see how other people around us view the world we all live in. From that we are able to come up with multiple different ideas that might not have been possible in a society where people were afraid to speak up and share how they really feel. 

One place in my life I see Promote Innovation being used all the time is on social media. TikTok, Youtube, and Instagram are platforms that are used everyday and that were created for the prime reason of allowing you to create new things and share your opinions. They allow you to share other things like projects, trending dances, music, and new ideas with larger audiences. A person can post an idea that inspires another person to improve it or create something that can be totally different from the original idea. One example of someone creating a totally different idea with someone else's original idea is when a musician posts a song on one of these social media apps and someone else that has nothing to do with the song hears is and then comes in and does a "remix" on the original song and posts it to an app. TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube all expose people to perspectives and cultures that they might not see in their everyday lifestyles. When people see these different perspectives and cultures it sparks their minds to all sorts of things and ideas. Social media has its own set of problems like spreading misinformation, trying to scare people, and not having accurate facts which I believe everyone agrees on for the most part but it still shows how freedom of expression can lead to creativity. 

Jack Balkin (the American legal scholar and the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School) connected the idea of Promote Innovation because everyone becomes more artistic and creative when they express themselves and exchange ideas. Jack Balkin uses his book "Living Organism"  to argue about how originalism and living constitutionalism are not in conflict but are compatible.  The book is just another example on how Jack Balkin used Promote Innovation to voice his opinion on not only originalism and living constitutionalism but also voicing his opinions on political parties and social movements that plays important roles in an ongoing project of constitutional construction. In my perspective free expression is not only about having the right to speak freely, it's about having the freedom to try new things, create different things, and introduce new ideas to the world we live in.