# Narrative Authority **Domain:** Identity / Power / Information Control **Doc Type:** Canonical Corpus Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Narrative authority** is the practical power to determine which account of a person, event or institution becomes visible, credible and consequential. ## Extortion Context An adversary holding private information can curate, sequence and release fragments to impose an account of the target's biography. The leverage lies not only in disclosure but in control over framing, timing and audience. ## See Also [[wiki/Cyber Extortion|Cyber Extortion]], [[wiki/Provenance|Provenance]], [[wiki/Concealed Causation|Concealed Causation]] ## Relationships - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] locates narrative authority in whoever teaches the next generation what the past meant, now including the machine archive. - **Hub:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] · **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “History does not end when events are over. It begins again every time someone explains what those events meant.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* [[reminders/Memory/History Begins Again Every Time Someone Explains What It Meant by Bryant McGill|History Begins Again Every Time Someone Explains What It Meant by Bryant McGill]] > “Whoever teaches the next generation what the past meant is already helping to shape the future.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* [[reminders/Civilization/Whoever Teaches What the Past Meant Is Shaping the Future by Bryant McGill|Whoever Teaches What the Past Meant Is Shaping the Future by Bryant McGill]]