# Noise Demonstration

> Noise Demonstration is mapped as the pressure: it raises the cost of inaction by making numbers, disruption, sacrifice, or refusal visible.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:protest-tactics:noise-demonstration` |
| Family | Protest & Direct-Action Tactics |
| Domain | Movements |
| Kind | tactic |
| Archetypal function | The Pressure |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Noise Demonstration belongs to the **Protest & Direct-Action Tactics** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Noise Demonstration raises the cost of inaction by making numbers, disruption, sacrifice, or refusal visible, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Noise Demonstration, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Pressure.** Noise Demonstration is mapped as the pressure: it raises the cost of inaction by making numbers, disruption, sacrifice, or refusal visible.

## Gift

creates leverage outside ordinary institutional channels; through Noise Demonstration, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

imposes costs on bystanders, invites repression, or substitutes performance for power; Noise Demonstration can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Noise Demonstration to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Pressure enters through Noise Demonstration. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Noise Demonstration becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**role.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Noise Demonstration; another player names a countermove. Initiative 5.

## Relationships

- **counteracts — Car Caravan:** Car Caravan counteracts Noise Demonstration by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **amplifies — Super PAC:** Noise Demonstration amplifies Super PAC by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **translates into — After-Action Review:** After-Action Review translates into Noise Demonstration by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Noise Demonstration from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Noise Demonstration is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Noise Demonstration: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [198 Methods of Nonviolent Action](https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/) — Albert Einstein Institution, 1973. Tactic taxonomy; inclusion does not imply effectiveness or ethical endorsement in every context.
- [Know Your Rights: Protesters' Rights](https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights) — American Civil Liberties Union, ongoing. U.S. protest-rights overview; local law and facts vary.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
