Citizens - Jon Alexander

Citizens by Jon Alexander is a bold, uplifting wake‑up call for anyone who feels that democracy, community, and everyday life have been reduced to clicking, buying, complaining - and waiting for "them" to fix it. If you're tired of politics-as-performance, brands-as-saviours, and institutions that treat people like customers or problems to manage, this book hands you a different lens: the Citizen inside every one of us.Alexander's core idea is brilliantly simple and deeply practical: to change the future, we must change the story. He reveals the hidden narratives shaping modern society - and why so many well‑meaning reforms fail because they keep the same assumptions in place.The three stories:• The Consumer Story: we're users, consumers, taxpayers, and voters-as-buyers. We demand, choose, and rate while organisations compete to "serve" us.• The Subject Story: in fear and uncertainty, we trade agency for protection - hierarchy, obedience, surveillance, and strongman certainty.• The Citizen Story: we are interdependent, creative, empathic people who can participate, collaborate, and co‑create solutions. Citizenship becomes a verb: engagement, responsibility, belonging, contribution.With a foreword by Brian Eno and praise from leading voices in democracy, business, and social change, Citizens makes a persuasive case that the Citizen Story is already rising - often beneath the media radar. From citizens self‑organising in crisis to neighbourhood renewal, Alexand
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