Thread by @jonjalex

📢MY BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER📢

🤓😀

I've been working on this for ages, and I'm very excited to share

It's full of the stories that have inspired and amazed me, and tools to help you do what they did

Oh and a foreword by ACTUAL BRIAN ENO

canburypress.com/collections/bo…

The core idea at the heart of the book is this:

We're living in a moment in time when the dominant story of society - the Consumer Story - is collapsing, and threatens to take us with it

But there is another truth: the Citizen Story is rising

This is what we @NewCitProj have been calling the #CitizenShift since 2015

We are not Subjects to be done to

Nor are we Consumers to be done for

We are Citizens, who get things done together

I knew I had to write when this piece went crazy last May

The shift from "Stay at Home" to "Stay Alert" was the Consumer Story roaring back

650000 people read it - and I knew I had to go deeper, and tell the full story

jonjalex.medium.com/johnsons-messa…

This Citizen story is rising in every aspect of society, across the world

It's not about the passport we hold and it goes far beyond the duty to vote in elections

It’s a state of engagement, more verb than noun

It's about claiming agency - and encouraging others to do the same

In CITIZENS my co-writer @arianesconrad and I travel the world: Taiwan to Kenya, Birmingham to Barking

We travel through time: from Akkad to classical Athens (obvs) to the Golden Age Pirates (less obvs unless you know @SamConniff @AlexandraBarke1)

and we have a lot of fun

CITIZENS isn’t out until 17th Feb

But you can pre-order - and I’d LOVE you to

Pre-orders basically count 10X for a 1st time author

They show the appetite - then reviews, press, speaking gigs follow

So pre-order!!! RT, QT, tell your friends!!!

canburypress.com/collections/bo…

PS signed copies if you go via @CanburyPress - and you support independent publishing too

THANK YOU