Jason - Paperback

by Mark Yager (Author)

What if becoming the best version of yourself meant losing what makes you human?

Seventeen-year-old Jason lives in a near-future society organized around optimization. Within a system of schools, behavioral metrics, and predictive technologies, individuals are guided toward the most efficient versions of themselves.

As Jason grows increasingly alienated from the institutions around him, he begins wandering beyond the structured environment of the city and into the natural world. His awakening may either destabilize the system or reveal something it has lost-the ability to perceive.

Set across four layers of reality, Jason explores what it means to remain fully human in a society shaped by technology and optimization.

It is a story about perception, freedom, and recovering a way of seeing that modern systems cannot measure.