# Libertarianism

> Libertarianism is mapped as the inheritance: it orders change through tradition, authority, property, nation, religion, markets, or social continuity.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:ideologies-right:libertarianism` |
| Family | Conservative & Right Traditions |
| Domain | Ideology |
| Kind | ideology |
| Archetypal function | The Inheritance |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Libertarianism belongs to the **Conservative & Right Traditions** 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

Libertarianism orders change through tradition, authority, property, nation, religion, markets, or social continuity, 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 Libertarianism, 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 Inheritance.** Libertarianism is mapped as the inheritance: it orders change through tradition, authority, property, nation, religion, markets, or social continuity.

## Gift

protects accumulated practices and warns against unintended consequences; through Libertarianism, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

sanctifies hierarchy, exclusion, or inherited power against justified change; Libertarianism 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 Libertarianism 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 Inheritance enters through Libertarianism. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

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

## Game function

**event.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Libertarianism; another player names a countermove. Initiative 4.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Christian Democracy:** Christian Democracy legitimizes Libertarianism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Right-Libertarianism:** Libertarianism mobilizes Right-Libertarianism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Rumor Cascade:** Libertarianism institutionalizes Rumor Cascade by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **translates into — 287(g) Agreement:** 287(g) Agreement translates into Libertarianism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

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

- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.
- [2024 Republican Party Platform](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform) — Republican National Committee, 2024. Party self-description and program; not an external assessment.

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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`.
