the philosophy
NODISM
Human thought and language are built on a triad of thought: the triple structure of cleaning out previous beliefs plus coming up with new ideas (creativity), then testing and acting upon them (action). This structure evolved from how our cosmos is put together.
Over history, and especially over the last hundred years, this triadic structure has been unbalanced into a brute and unthinking preponderance of action; action which in its overall effect has proved destructive to both planet and inhabitants. The culprit? The fossilizing, sclerotic command structures of large organizations, or orgs.
These orgs (individually as well as in their collective form, the megorg) are systems so huge and complex that they not only evade human control but have in fact evolved into organisms that fulfill all the criteria of a life-form.
The current state of the planet--where exponentially swelling hordes of humans compete with growing speed and ferocity for decreasing, degraded resources--is a result of the despotic power of these living orgs, working separately and together.
The greatest and most relevant vehicle of org power is size. It follows that the best vehicle of resistance to these organisms and the destructive forms of behavior they impose would be small scale: namely, small handfuls of humans motivated by this philosophy.
This new grouping--based on the egalitarian principles of the black market group, the instant communications of cyberspace, and new technologies of self-sufficiency and resource stewardship--is called the node.
To fight the orgs, to reverse the death spiral through which orgs prevent humans (paralyzed by fear of org power) from halting the slow destruction of their individual environments, we have to create nodes that fulfill our various needs--for sustenance, health, creative fulfillment, protection of home ecologies--and slowly achieve a degree of independence from orgs.
While it is unlikely, and to some extent undesireable, that nodes might achieve total freedom from a system as huge and comprehensive as the orgs, the aim of this philosophy is to achieve enough independence to regain a degree of control over human affairs and the future of increasingly interconnected ecologies, both human and natural.
