# Yippies

> politics as theater designed to make authority look ridiculous

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:american-1960s:yippies` |
| Family | American Radical Politics of the 1960s |
| Domain | History |
| Kind | movement |
| Archetypal function | The New Left |
| Epistemic status | sourced_claim; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Yippies belongs to the **American Radical Politics of the 1960s** 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

The Youth International Party used satire, media events, and countercultural spectacle to contest war, convention politics, and cultural authority.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Yippies, 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 New Left.** politics as theater designed to make authority look ridiculous

## Gift

Humor punctures inevitability and expands the political imagination.

## Wound / Shadow

Spectacle can replace organization and participants can become props.

## Conditions

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

## Strategic meaning

Use Yippies 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 New Left enters through Yippies. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** Would changing the image of authority change authority itself?

## Game function

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

## Relationships

- **amplifies — Port Huron Statement:** Port Huron Statement amplifies Yippies by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **translates into — Jerry Rubin:** Yippies translates into Jerry Rubin by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **amplifies — Leader Principle:** Leader Principle amplifies Yippies by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **depends on — Organization:** Yippies depends on Organization by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Yippies from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Yippies 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: cultural_historical, 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 Yippies: 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

- [The Port Huron Statement](https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111huron.html) — Students for a Democratic Society, 1962. New Left critique and participatory-democracy program.
- [COINTELPRO Records](https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro) — Federal Bureau of Investigation Vault, 1956–1971. Government records concerning covert disruption of political organizations.
- [Church Committee Reports](https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm) — U.S. Senate, 1975–1976. Investigations of intelligence abuses and subsequent oversight reforms.

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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`.
