Wealth inequality has reached truly epic proportions — with 62 individuals amassing the same aggregate wealth as 3.7 billion. Most of us intuitively sense that this outcome was rigged by design by a global elite.
The human mind evolved to deal with singular threats — a lion jumping out of the bushes or a wildfire spreading through the forest. We give cognitive preference to harms that are concrete, immediate, and commonplace in our everyday lives. A consequence of this natural bias toward the individual and familiar is...
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Standing at the gates: Our generation has to convert ideas of change into action
The task of our generation is one of reconstruction. If we want to truly be gate crashers, we must move beyond the frustration of the ineptitude and psychopathy of the elites, corrupt politicians and robber barons that are lionized in our media and educational institutions. We must start by taking...
Reading the commentaries on #Greece in the last few weeks, it’s clear that there is a degree of genuine shock and consternation rippling through groups who have traditionally been the main cheerleaders of the EU. How is it, people are asking, that we got to this place where the sovereignty...
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is designed to give corporations more power over domestic laws, including environment, labour and other safeguards. This and other revelations about the TPP came forth after Wikileaks released the Investment Chapter of the deal on March 25, 2015.
In part two, of the article series 'Capitalism is Just a Story and other Dangerous thoughts', we explore the role of ordinary citizens like you and I, and what possibilities exist for truly emancipatory social change.
Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there,...
The Syriza party has said that it will ‘never ratify’ the TTIP deal. This will be their ‘gift to all European people’. Georgios Katrougkalos, the new deputy minister for administrative reforms, has confirmed that the party stands by the anti-TTIP stance it had even before it came to power.
Most of you reading this have probably received numerous emails asking you to sign petitions on various causes over the years, some of them will have even come from us at /The Rules. If you are anything like me the vast majority of them will remain unread, and the cumulative...
As 2014 draws to a close and we look forwards, we find ourselves tired but happy, daunted but excited, exasperated but full of love and hope.
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