# Conspiracy Entrepreneurship

> Conspiracy Entrepreneurship is mapped as the hidden plot: it turns uncertainty and distrust into a total explanatory community.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:conspiracy-radicalization:conspiracy-entrepreneurship` |
| Family | Conspiracy & Radicalization |
| Domain | Information |
| Kind | formation |
| Archetypal function | The Hidden Plot |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Conspiracy Entrepreneurship belongs to the **Conspiracy & Radicalization** 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

Conspiracy Entrepreneurship turns uncertainty and distrust into a total explanatory community, 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 Conspiracy Entrepreneurship, 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 Hidden Plot.** Conspiracy Entrepreneurship is mapped as the hidden plot: it turns uncertainty and distrust into a total explanatory community.

## Gift

detects that real power can operate invisibly and gives adherents belonging; through Conspiracy Entrepreneurship, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

makes unfalsifiability, demonization, and escalating commitment self-sealing; Conspiracy Entrepreneurship 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 Conspiracy Entrepreneurship 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 Hidden Plot enters through Conspiracy Entrepreneurship. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Conspiracy Entrepreneurship becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Conspiracy Entrepreneurship; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **translates into — Birtherism:** Birtherism translates into Conspiracy Entrepreneurship by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **enables — Red-Pill Pipeline:** Conspiracy Entrepreneurship enables Red-Pill Pipeline by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Constructive Tension:** Constructive Tension mobilizes Conspiracy Entrepreneurship by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **amplifies — Green New Deal:** Conspiracy Entrepreneurship amplifies Green New Deal by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Conspiracy Entrepreneurship from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Conspiracy Entrepreneurship 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 Conspiracy Entrepreneurship: 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

- [Examining Extremism: QAnon](https://www.csis.org/blogs/examining-extremism/examining-extremism-qanon) — Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2021. Origins, networked conspiracy claims, mobilization, and a violent subset.
- [FBI–DHS Domestic Terrorism Strategic Report](https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fbi-dhs-domestic-terrorism-strategic-report-2022.pdf) — FBI and DHS, 2022. Threat categories and incidents; agencies state protected political activity is not terrorism.
- [Guidance for Regulation of Digital Platforms](https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000387339) — UNESCO, 2023. Platform governance, expression, information integrity, and rights.

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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`.
