# country in decline (downward)

*Ordinarily means:* a country seen as losing its former strength, wealth or standing

A collective self reading its reach as narrowing across time against its own past, so each current act reads as resisting that drift or not.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [against](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition), [past](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-past.temporal), [current](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-current.present), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [resist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-resist.oppose), [across](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-across.spatial), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive)

**Through:** The narrative compares the current window to past ones and reads a slope, not a state; every act is then placed on that slope, as resisting the drift or adding to it.

**Novel properties:**
- a slope read instead of a state
- the self's own past as the measure
- acts read as with or against the drift

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-country-in-decline.downward*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-country-in-decline.downward.json*  
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