Glossary

Key concepts of the Exitarian School. Exit is the root.

Core Concepts

Exit: The sovereign act of voluntary departure. The foundational right from which all other freedoms derive. Not flight — strategic withdrawal from systems that no longer serve.
Exitarianism: A political philosophy that holds Exit as the primary mechanism of governance. Systems are disciplined not by voice, but by the credible threat of departure.
The Exitarian School: The intellectual framework of Libertaria. Seven Pillars organizing thought around sovereignty, consent, and the architecture of freedom.
Sovereignty: Self-governance at every scale. Not granted by institutions — claimed through cryptographic identity, infrastructure ownership, and economic independence.
Temporal Fraud: The sale of future exit capacity that hasn't been minted yet. Future-you is a distinct agent whose time-states present-you cannot trade — because time is irreversible and cannot be stored or borrowed. Any contract that permanently binds a future self is selling an asset that doesn't exist, like selling real estate on Mars. This kills an entire class of coercive instruments: permanent non-competes, irrevocable power-of-attorney, lifetime debt bondage, "till death do us part" without divorce rights. Every contract claiming to bind a future self permanently is temporal fraud — because the future self didn't sign.

The Monastery: The foundational layer. Deterministic, compiled, enduring. Code and doctrine that doesn't change. Where the canon lives.
The Bazaar: The adaptive layer. Experimental, iterative, forkable. Where essays, scripts, and prototypes evolve.
The Stack: Libertaria's L0-L5 protocol architecture: Transport, Identity, Session, Governance, Applications, Agent Runtime.
Capsule: An atomic unit of sovereign software distribution. Contains source, proof (tests), and capability manifest.
Membrane Agent: A sovereign AI agent that runs locally, filters information through trust graphs, and serves its owner — not platforms.

Chapter: A self-governing unit within the Federation. Sovereign by default, federated by choice.
Federation: Voluntary association of Chapters. No central authority. Governance by protocol, not personality.
The Right to Fork: Any member can fork a Chapter or the Federation itself. The ultimate exit mechanism.

Syntactic Honesty: All costs visible. No hidden complexity. Code reveals its true nature.
Mechanism over Policy: Build systems where correct behavior emerges from architecture, not from trusting users to be virtuous.
Grafting: Integrating foreign code without losing sovereignty. All foreign origins declared, contained, and adapter-wrapped.
Capability: An explicit token granting permission for a specific operation (IO, network, filesystem). No ambient authority.