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Jon Alexander 'Citizens - Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us'

The New Abnormal

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The Century of the Self - Damned

You talk about Adam curtis and the century of the self in your new book. The idea that we are selfish and lazy by nature, but clever ones use that to get to better output despite it. And how consumer society narrative has been used as a tool for this kind of thinking. But where do you draw the line? Is there any point at which people should stop buying into such narratives?

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