{
  "id": "hunger-for-change.appetite",
  "term": "hunger for change",
  "sense": "appetite",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A collective self reading its current window as one to leave, so its members read their reach as wider after any change than if they stay.",
  "folk_gloss": "a widespread desire for new leadership or a new direction",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "reach.action",
      "read.information",
      "current.present",
      "window.range",
      "leave.movement",
      "member.social",
      "wide.spatial",
      "time.dimension",
      "change.process",
      "persist.continue"
    ],
    "interaction": "Once the current window is read as the wall, change of any kind reads as widening; the report favours leaving over any one destination.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "a want with no located object",
      "the present window read as the wall"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Labour's landslide in the 1945 UK general election, weeks after victory in Europe, is often explained as a hunger for change after the war.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "hope.emotional",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "hope reads one closed window as reachable; a hunger for change reads the current one as closing"
    },
    {
      "id": "mood-of-the-country.read",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "one mood among those the country can report"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "appetite for change",
    "desire for change",
    "hunger for change"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hunger-for-change.appetite"
}