NOFIN is a public panhumanist platform focused on providing vision, guidance, ideas, strategies, and tactics for systemic change in the 21st century. It seeks to transition from current capitalist conditions to a social-economic structure termed Fully Automated Sufficiency Communism (FASC) or a similar model emphasizing equality, sufficiency, and mutualism with nature.
FASC involves the abolishment of property and currency, the uncommodification and sharing of knowledge, and total resource efficiency through AI governance. It aims to create a socio-economic structure that ensures equality and sufficiency for all, incorporating principles of panhumanism.
NOFIN utilizes a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating fiction, theory, and agendas for active transformation in politics, society, and the economy. It seeks to merge and dissolve these aspects into a holistic anthropophilic/philanthropic model, addressing various facets of human existence.
What areas does NOFIN address for change?
NOFIN covers a wide range of aspects, including education, social interaction, administration, psychology, healthcare, science, technology, language, architecture, entertainment, culture, production, consumerism, and value systems. It aims to provide a comprehensive framework for constructive change.
YES. NOFIN invites and encourages everyone to engage and participate. Collaboration and inspiration are welcomed. Contributions aligning with the panhumanist doctrine are curated for publication. NOFIN, originating from Europe, seeks a global pool of contributors and welcomes publications in various languages.
NOFIN refrains from commenting on current political affairs, events, or tendencies in a traditional sense. Instead, it uses these as starting points to envision solution-oriented scenarios that contribute to a better future.
The name "NOFIN" suggests pushing for change until there's "NOFIN left." The platform believes that true change requires unlearning the capitalist mindset and adopting an alternative universe of thought, ushering in a new paradigm.
Panhumanism is a guiding principle for NOFIN, emphasizing total equality in rights, supplies, and dignity while maintaining individual freedom. It seeks to transcend regional, national, religious, and ethnic conflicts, focusing on common human needs and aspirations.
NOFIN suggests the abolition of property and currency, replacing them with a system called Fully Automated Sufficiency Communism (FASC). This involves an Automated Need-based Distribution (ANDRO) mechanism for resource efficiency and an Automated Library Of Things (A-LOT) for individual interests.
The CET asserts that humanity, collectively as a species, is its own worst enemy. It encourages a global perspective by transcending individual, regional, or national conflicts, recognizing the shared humanity that binds everyone together.
NOFIN argues that humanity itself is the common enemy, citing examples from fiction where external threats unite people. It emphasizes that the real threat is internal, with the need for global unity to address common challenges.
NOFIN proposes AI administration monitored by a human council to oversee systemic organization. This AI system, free from corruption, would manage resources, production, and distribution, ensuring total equality while being guided by core Panhumanist values.
NOFIN includes a human council composed of representatives from diverse backgrounds to supervise, discuss, and adapt the rules governing AI. Short terms of service and mechanisms prevent the accumulation of power, ensuring human oversight and control.
NOFIN acknowledges its proposal as one scenario and actively seeks alternative perspectives. It emphasizes the ongoing need for discussion and engagement in the pursuit of long-term goals for a transformed society.
NOFIN aims to contribute to transformation across all human sectors, particularly in education, knowledge distribution, and socio-economic-ecological approaches towards mutualism with nature.
NOFIN encourages individuals to join the journey towards a transformed society by participating in discussions, contributing ideas, and exploring different perspectives. The manifesto emphasizes the importance of unity and collective effort in this transformative process.
The Sandbox World is a concept that challenges the perception of our world as fixed and unchangeable. It encourages the idea that, like a sandbox, our world is malleable and can be shaped according to our desires and imagination.
The Deception of Ultrarigidity refers to the belief that our societal structures, economic systems, and institutions are unchangeable due to perceived natural laws and cosmological preconditions. The manifesto argues against this deception, asserting that we have the power to redefine and reshape our world.
The manifesto sees the current state of the world as complex and interconnected, making it challenging to imagine meaningful change. It suggests that changing overarching structures is key to transforming the world.
The manifesto proposes that to change the world, one must focus on changing overarching structures rather than reacting to individual processes. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the principles underlying a better world and acting consciously to reshape the world according to those principles.
The manifesto argues that crises throughout history are opportunities for change, where the energy involved in the transformation of structures results in new, complex processes based on the newly built structures that suit the new conditions.
"Versus The Whirl" advocates for proactive and conscious action rather than reactive responses to external influences, events, and crises. It encourages assessing the situation and actively reshaping the world according to human needs and the collective good.
The manifesto suggests freeing humanity from fixed images of fundamental categories like work and replacing it with creation. It encourages asking questions about how human creativity can flourish under new conditions and structures.
Instead of focusing on traditional concerns about jobs, wealth inequality, and property, the manifesto urges asking more complex questions about creating a system without money and property. It prompts consideration of how production and distribution can be re-created to meet everyone's needs in a just global society.
The manifesto argues that the questions it proposes, although complex, can be answered because they are real and not rhetorical instruments of oppression. These questions, referred to as TOELIs (Thoughtful, Objective, Enabling, Liberating Inquiries), are seen as tools to build a new reality in the sandbox.
The manifesto encourages the belief that the world can be whatever humanity wants it to be, emphasizing the power and possibilities of actively shaping and creating the world rather than accepting it as fixed and unchangeable. It calls for daring to want change and envisioning a new reality.
The Common Enemy Theory posits that, to unite as a species, humans need to recognize that their only true enemy is themselves. It emphasizes the inherent destructive potential of humanity, especially under the current capitalist paradigm, making humans their own worst enemy within an abstracted food chain.
CET argues that competition as the dominant mode of human agency, along with inequality as the underlying ontological condition, is the source of human self-annihilation and environmental destruction.
CET uses examples from pop culture, such as "Independence Day," "The Terminator" saga, and "The Expanse," to illustrate the concept that humanity often unites when faced with a powerful external threat. It suggests that a common enemy can force unity and cooperation.
The Panhumanist Paradigm is a concept introduced in conjunction with CET, emphasizing that humans must recognize themselves as both their own worst enemy and their own best ally. It suggests that unification usually lasts as long as a common danger is present, providing a hopeful perspective for positive change.
CET suggests that humans, similar to other animal species, have the ability to mobilize incredible potential through unification when faced with an overwhelming opposing power. It questions whether a species in a permanent state of resistance to an equally matched enemy could maintain a permanent state of unification.
The Common Ally Theory asserts that, like individuals being their own worst enemy, humans as a species are their own worst enemy but also their own best ally. It highlights the permanent status of being both our own worst enemy and best ally, particularly since industrialization and the beginning of the anthropocene.
Panhumanism suggests that unification will typically last as long as the common danger is present. The concept encourages a constant awareness of humanity's powerful negative leverage on Earth and ourselves, providing a hopeful perspective for positive change.
The force to fear, according to CET, is the existential threat posed by various crises, including global warming, waste, pollution, energy crises, and other environmental catastrophes. It also includes social and cultural harm generated by political mandates and ingrained behavior.
CET argues that acknowledging the realness of the threat and understanding the existential negative potential should propel humans to unfold their utmost positive potential. It discourages accepting a fatalistic view of human nature and encourages using negative potential as a motivation for positive change.
CET criticizes accelerationist discourse for its often linear projection of the future based solely on the analysis of human history and the present system. It encourages a nuanced understanding of the complex and multifaceted nature of the world, rejecting both accelerationism and conservative decelerationism in favor of abolishing and replacing capitalism with something better and more reasonable.
Fully Automated Sufficiency Communism (FASC) is a theoretical socio-economic and ideological paradigm envisioning global equality in rights and supply. Automated Need-Based Distribution (ANDRO) is the distribution mechanism within the FASC framework, aiming to provide resources based on individual needs.
FASC envisions a world without property, currency, or work. Automation handles all aspects of production, distribution, and administration, eliminating wealth and privilege. Total equality is achieved by focusing on sufficiency rather than luxury.
FASC promotes the total freedom of the human spirit. While global structures ensure equality, local administrations accommodate cultural and environmental differences. Individuals coexist in diverse cultures and subcultures, fostering personal development and expression.
FASC is not a tyranny. Though global in scope, it rejects autocracy. The artificial intelligence (AI) that oversees the system is not sentient or oppressive. Human regulatory bodies reflect panhumanist principles, emphasizing democracy, transparency, and prevention of power accumulation.
ANDRO ensures need-based distribution, evaluating requests for additional resources through a smart mechanism. Global collaboration is encouraged by connecting individuals with similar projects. The emphasis is on total inclusion, meeting the requirements of all citizens, including non-neurotypical or disabled individuals.
Automation is central to FASC, handling tasks such as recycling, agriculture, infrastructure maintenance, education, and healthcare. Humans are liberated from survival-based work, allowing them to engage in activities for the common good, research, development, and personal growth.
FASC aims for total resource efficiency, minimizing waste and excess production. Automation in distribution prioritizes regional contexts to reduce transportation emissions. Environmental care, reforestation, and sustainable practices are integral to the system.
An AI governance framework monitors and administers the system, preventing corruption. The framework is carefully defined within panhumanist principles, subjecting the AI to limits set by human legislation. Human oversight, a global council, ensures balance and prevents abuse of power.
NOFIN, the organization proposing FASC, does not anticipate sentient machines. The AI is designed to operate within defined parameters, and human oversight ensures ethical use. The risk is acknowledged, and precautions are taken to prevent harmful effects.
FASC acknowledges the potential risks of extreme automation and strives to balance the benefits with ethical considerations. The emphasis is on achieving true equality and preventing extinction by addressing the inhumane consequences of capitalist dynamics.
OUTSIDE IN explores the idea that meaningful, permanent change in a system cannot come from within that system. It delves into the limitations of trying to induce change using instruments and institutions developed within the system, proposing that true change must originate from an external, contrasting perspective.
The text argues that systems evolved to resist internal change. Powerful ideas or protocols emerging within such systems risk being co-opted, redirected, or neutralized to align with the system's existing structures. Attempts to resist or obstruct the system's processes are deemed futile.
Transformative Hyperimmunity refers to the system's robust resistance to internal change. The more powerful an idea or change, the more likely the system is to embrace and guide it in a direction compatible with its existing principles, avoiding conflicts or losses.
If change is impossible from within, the text suggests it can only come from the Outside. The Outside is described as a construct entirely negating the system's principles, operating with different structures and tools, and having immense destructive potential towards the Inside.
Defining the Outside involves considering mechanisms that work differently from the Inside. By gradually materializing the borders and boundaries of the Inside, a map emerges. This process signifies a loss of power for the Inside, as anything with borders can be attacked.
The Outside, once established, invalidates the laws and existence of the Inside. The Inside becomes nonexistent in the eyes of the Outside, leading to doubt, transformation, and decay within the system. The Outside is described as having subversive, corrosive power.
The text suggests initiating an automatic Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the system by introducing the existence and nature of the Outside to Insiders. Outsideism is proposed as a hostile acquisition, questioning the trajectory of history and ushering in a new reality of needs, efficiency, mutualism, sufficiency, and equality.
Value Converter is described as a mechanism in Outsideism that transforms everything real in the Inside Cosmos into a new reality of the Outside. It inverts the matter into anti-matter, imploding static conditions, and making a new world possible.
Outsideism envisions a world without property and currency, ruled by logic of needs, efficiency, mutualism, sufficiency, and equality. It proposes a new beginning with well-established principles and structures, capable of handling the complexity of tomorrow while being simple to comprehend.
Yes, the text asserts that a different world is imaginable through Outsideism. It encourages a shift in thinking and action to bring about a new understanding of life and ecology.
Rational Luddism criticizes the belief that cultural progress, especially in the context of capitalism, correlates directly with scientific or technological advancements. It argues that real human progress should be measured by the accumulation of health, including freedom, liberty, independence, and mutualism.
Technologies are assessed based on their contribution to global health rather than projected market value. The key question is whether a technology is a Tool of Oppression (TOOP) or a Tool of Enablement and Liberation (TOELI). The assessment focuses on promoting equality in rights and supply for all of humanity.
TOOPs are technologies that oppress or contribute to oppression, while TOELIs are technologies that enable and liberate. The goal is to identify, single out, destroy, and permanently ban TOOPs, fostering the use of technologies that contribute to the well-being and equality of humanity.
Rational Luddism broadens the definition of technology to include not only material and physical aspects but also immaterial and cultural elements like language, symbolism, and narratives. The re-definition aims to evaluate every form of technology based on its potential to contribute to total equality in rights and supply.
In cases where a technology has positive and negative aspects or involves complex networks of subsidiary technologies, Rhizomatic Decision Trees are proposed. This acknowledges the multifaceted impacts of technologies, especially those interconnected in smart systems, and suggests a nuanced evaluation.
Rational Luddism anticipates that, as society moves away from capitalism toward panhumanism, some tools may automatically transition from TOOP to TOELI status. However, it emphasizes the need for a thorough and steady evaluation process, guided by a rational and emotionally acknowledged social belief system.
Rational Luddism questions the unquestioning acceptance of advanced electronic devices as the most valuable. It argues that terms like "high tech" for consumer electronics may be misconceptions, and simpler tools like a tin pot and a wooden spoon could be more advanced, flexible, and sustainable.
Rational Luddism criticizes the attempt to replace nature with technology, highlighting that nature is already perfected technology. It urges a shift in perspective, focusing on social and ecological responsibility alongside technological advancements.
Rational Luddism seeks increased awareness and a different approach towards technology, encouraging the construction of panhumanist TOELIs while inhibiting the development of capitalist TOOPs. It recognizes the importance of human curiosity and creativity but emphasizes the need for responsible technological progress.
The Education Revolution is a proposal for a radical transformation of the current education system, particularly focusing on elementary and secondary schooling. It suggests replacing compulsory schooling with alternative forms such as homeschooling or online schools, aiming to dissolve the conflict between schooling and genuine learning.
The proposal criticizes the current education system for being overloaded, bureaucratically bloated, and serving as a factory for normalization and standardization. It sees schools as tools of an oppressive ideology disguised as freedom, limiting choices and possibilities for life outside the narrow confines of economic growth, competition, and social status.
It argues that the current system relies heavily on extrinsic motivation, pushing children into obedience through reward and punishment systems. The proposal advocates for a shift towards intrinsic motivation, where learning is voluntary, based on commitment and interest, and tailored to individual needs, strengths, and circadian rhythms.
The first key action is the abolition of compulsory schooling, opening legislation to alternative forms such as homeschooling or online schools, especially in advanced and wealthy areas. Learning should become voluntary and based on commitment and interest, with a focus on individual needs and strengths.
While schools and classrooms may still exist, their role would change. They would primarily provide social and learning infrastructure, materials, and guidance. Students would have the freedom to come to school on their own will, and classes would function as loose peer groups and learning communities, guided by teachers functioning more as mentors and friends.
This concept introduces gamified learning experiences, starting with simple games for fundamental skills in pre-school and elementary school. It suggests incorporating elements of virtual reality and creating MMORPG-style games for secondary schooling, where students unlock quests, achievements, and gain skills through challenging tasks, combining education with a panhumanist philosophy.
Students, driven by intrinsic motivation, participate in MMORPG-style games where they complete quests and challenges related to various subjects. The game is designed to be top-tier in terms of gameplay, graphics, and story development. The panhumanist principles and philosophy are embedded in the game's storyline and reward system, encouraging positive values.
What is "Raid-In-Class / Raid-At-Home" in The Education Revolution?
This concept involves physical and virtual infrastructure provided in schools for inclusive gaming experiences. It encourages socializing and participation in cooperative events. The aim is to blend gaming with social interaction and learning, promoting a sense of community.
It emphasizes that Gamified Education is not a holistic concept for schooling but a complementary measure within a reformed holistic education system. As society undergoes transformation, the game design would need gradual adjustments to align with panhumanist values and the shifting dynamics of society.
This suggests a form of open campus where experts from various fields lead workshops and mentor students on a voluntary basis. Students are free to attend talks, lectures, seminars, and workshops based on their interests, without exams or grades. It envisions a dynamic, self-regulating environment where learning is driven by passion and curiosity.
"Forced Education" proposes replacing advertising, a powerful tool of capitalism, with educational content. Product packaging, smartphone apps, and entertainment platforms could include mandatory educational content, encouraging continuous learning and raising awareness on various topics. The goal is to subvert the core of capitalism by turning consumption into an educational experience.
Forced Education is seen as a crucial tool for systemic change, directly addressing consumers and subverting the core of capitalism. By transforming consumption into an educational process, it aims to broaden the horizon of individuals, making them more aware of global challenges and fostering a united effort for transformation.
"The Orchards: A Day in Life Under FASC" is a narrative that provides a glimpse into a futuristic society marked by advanced technology, sustainable living, and communal harmony. The story is narrated by an unnamed protagonist who wakes up to the sounds of construction drones in a peaceful, environmentally conscious district. The community engages in activities such as farming, supported by an Automated Library of Things (ALOT) and advanced distribution pipelines.
The protagonist reflects on a conversation about damascene orchards from the previous day and the communal commitment to assist with farming. The narrative delves into the protagonist's morning routine, emphasizing the significance of simple pleasures and shared experiences. The story explores themes of ownership, personal connections, and the post-capitalist era where individuals can pursue various activities without the constraints of labor and property.
As the protagonist prepares for the day, they observe the changes in their living space and reflect on the transient nature of possessions. The story highlights the interconnectedness of individuals and the importance of communal efforts in the new era. The protagonist then heads to the orchards, describing the layout of the district and encounters with diverse neighbors along the way.
The narrative also touches on a memorial service for a deceased community member, showcasing the community's collective response to loss and the role of individuals dedicated to the care of the deceased. The protagonist's journey continues on the community transport vehicle (CRAVE), providing insights into the diverse activities and interests of the citizens.
Upon reaching the orchards, the protagonist joins a work group, emphasizing the voluntary nature of agricultural activities, the use of advanced agricultural drones (SUEZEANES), and the balance between technology and manual labor. The story emphasizes the positive effects of the community's engagement with nature and the mutual care between humans and plants.
In the damascene orchards, the protagonist reunites with Yuki, and the narrative captures the essence of their shared experience in the bountiful and aromatic surroundings. Overall, the story paints a vivid picture of a harmonious and sustainable future society where individuals coexist with nature, fostering meaningful connections and a sense of purpose in their daily lives.