Citizens & History for Tomorrow live with Jon Alexander & Roman Krznaric

A remarkable conversation between two leading lights in the movement for a better future.

Citizens and History For Tomorrow, from Jon Alexander & Roman Krznaric, featured in our Spring 25 season. They speak to each other; Jon's standpoint, looking to future possibilities in the Citizen story, is buttressed by Roman's deep understanding of history's forgotten lessons.

Despite a tech fail which prevented most folk from joining us live for the recording (apologies again!), we shared many fruitful stories and perspectives included Jon observing how the current transition from the Consumer story to the Citizen story mirrors the century-old power shift from Subject story to the Consumer story via the messy process of World War One.

And yet, he suggested, for most people, the options of the moment seem limited to Stick or Twist; stick with a broken system, or twist into fascism. Hence the need a new social story.

We discussed the importance of books in the Post-Truth age, reflecting on who we are telling stories for, the powerful or the masses and watched Roman's sage observations on how change happens soothe Jon's inner Labrador.

Plus discussions about collapse, glass half-full metaphors, radical hope, consumption as a wasting disease, what it means to be good, and so much more.

This is what happens each season when we gather with our authors to go beyond the books.

Get involved, starting with a free copy of Citizens.

At the time of writing, there were also a couple of copies of History for Tomorrow remaining in stock.