Cutline · Grade 8–9 · one of sixteen

P·L·N·R

The Secessionist

private · decentralized · national · rupture

Libertarian capitalism

Get out from under the government completely — on this ground, with these neighbours, and by force if it comes to collect. You defend your own property, because no distant authority has the standing to do it for you.


What the four letters mean

P Ownershipprivatenot collective (C)
L Controldecentralizednot centralized (A)
N Horizonnationalnot internationalist (I)
R Methodrupturenot gradual (G)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyArmed militia movements in the United States; “sovereign citizen” groups; movements that want to break away and become their own country.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Secessionist is a box, and a box throws almost everything away. It keeps which side of each line you landed on and forgets how far. Two people in this box can be at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. Where the lines were drawn across them is a decision a person made.

The point

Cutline tells you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other quiz leaves out. And you are fourteen. You are supposed to change.

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