The Rules

What we have learned in that time is how much stories shape the world, and also how they can help change it. The Rules starts from two core insights: All power rests on the ability to harness and control language; and humans make sense of their world through stories. Narratives explain how power has come to rest in the hands of the few, rather than the many. They reveal how our struggles - from land to labour, biodiversity and even our very bodies - are part of the same global system, one that prioritises the production of capital - in other words, economic growth - over everything else, and at the expense of everything else. We call that system neoliberal capitalism. Aside from revealing it to be at the root of the crises of our civilisations, we tell stories about alternative systems emerging so that people see that they have the power to change the rules. Finally, we connect movements working in diverse ways to resist, and reimagine the world.