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A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group: a few whose reach is wide, read as outside its boundary though they are members.

Elite (noun) means: A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group: a few whose reach is wide, read as outside its boundary though they are members. It emerges from collective self, boundary, out-group, wide: The setters of the group's walls are placed outside the boundary even though they are members, so the walls read as imposed from outside and not as the group's own. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

elite.few · forms: coastal elite, coastal elites, elites, liberal elite, power elite, the elite, the elites

ordinarily means: a small group with great wealth, influence or power, often contrasted with the general public

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self boundary out-group wide reach member set power read wall outside
through: The setters of the group's walls are placed outside the boundary even though they are members, so the walls read as imposed from outside and not as the group's own.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 3 more not showneliteL17elite.few — A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group: a few whose reach is wide, read as outside its bouncollective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.out-groupL16out-group.outside — Those a collective self reads as outside its boundary, whose walls it does not keep.wideL4wide.spatial — has more space extent than usualreachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.memberL7member.social — a person that is a part of a groupsetL9set.fix — To make a wall or the value of a parameter stay in one place.powerL14power.over — The reach of one thing over the walls of another thing's window.

Relations

contrasts-withestablishment.settledthe elite is a few read by reach; the establishment is those in office read as keeping walls where they are
contrasts-withordinary-people.corethe other pole of the same split
contrasts-withone-percent.fewthe one percent is named by wealth; the elite by its reach over the group's walls

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md