The Giant Plates of Culture xi Introduction: A Simple Question 1 // Flaws and Strengths The Threat of the Great Reversal 16 The Self-Fulfillment Contradiction 23 The Promise Beneath the Guises 30 // Experiments in Self-Fulfillment The Strong Form of the Self-Fulfillment Predicament 46 // A Nonrebel in Rebel’s Clothing 60 I Am My Own Work of Art 69 New Norms: Being Obliged to Do What You Want to Do 83 The Old Epochal Experience 104 “Otherwise the World Is One Big Factory” 113 Feliciano’s Bicycle 122 “With a Little Bit of Luck” 132 What’s Wrong with Getting Ahead?—The People’s Critique 144 // The New Realities: The Economics of the Reversal // The Growth Machine 160 The Best of Both Worlds 169 Jumpy and Off Balance 176 Working Through to Reality 185 Goodbye to the Inner Journey 190 The Three Claims 197 // The New Realities: The Peculiar Connection 204 // An Ethic of Commitment America’s First Cultural Revolution 216 Rewriting the Giving/Getting Compact 222 Stepping Off Maslow’s Escalator 231 Toward an Ethic of Commitment 241 // Index 263