Talking with a Frontline Optimist - Jon Alexander
OPTIMIST In Progress
English - March 05, 2022 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement personal development abstainer habits non-alcoholic goals help focus optimist drinks wellness positive thinking optimist industries Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jon Alexander is co-founder of New Citizen Project, and for the past decade he has looked deeply at the impact that the dominant narrative in which we all live - the consumer story - has shaped our lives, our institutions and most troublingly, our self perception. In his new book, Citizens: Why the key to fixing everything is all of us, he hopes to show us how to reclaim the word "citizen" in its truest sense - together, people - and empower us to work towards a more community-centric future. But how to untether ourselves from the culture of high capitalist consumerism? What exactly are the steps to do that? Tom and Drea talk to Jon about collective power and hackers in Taiwan, a new breed of businesses shaking things up, and the future role of elected leaders as facilitators or space-makers.
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