Five weeks ago, when Johnson changed the message from "Stay Home" to "Stay Alert", I wrote that he was trying to shift the story from Subject to Consumer
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Today's headlines show how right I was
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Yesterday my @TEDxCardiff went live
I describe how after 9/11 Bush, Blair, Giuliani told us to "Go shopping" - and how that held us back in a story that was dying even then
I set out the shift from Subject to Consumer to Citizen as the work of our time
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I and my @NewCitProj team then put this into the context of Covid-19
The broad historical shift has become a crucible in which all 3 stories are in play - and one will come out dominant
It must NOT be the Consumer
We ALL have a role to play in that
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It starts by asking yourself a simple question
What would you do in this time if you TRULY believed in yourself, and in those around you?
In your local community
Where you work
With your friends
You are not a Subject, and you are not a Consumer
Now is the time to show it
A more direct response now live...
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