{
  "id": "mood-of-the-country.read",
  "term": "mood of the country",
  "sense": "read",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "The reports a collective self makes at one time about its walls and its reach together, read from its members by those with power or wanting it.",
  "folk_gloss": "how the people of a country generally feel about its state and direction",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "reach.action",
      "power.over",
      "report.information",
      "make.verb",
      "time.dimension",
      "wall.range-end",
      "read.information",
      "member.social",
      "want.desire"
    ],
    "interaction": "Fear, morale, grievance and hope are read together as one state of the group; those seeking power read it to decide which walls to promise to move.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "every affective report taken as one",
      "a reading made mainly by those who would act on it"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Gallup regularly asks Americans whether they are satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States, a common measure of the national mood.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "morale.collective",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "morale is the read of reach alone; the mood takes walls and reach together"
    },
    {
      "id": "hunger-for-change.appetite",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a hunger for change is one mood, read as wanting to leave the current window"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "mood of the country",
    "national mood",
    "public mood",
    "the mood of the nation"
  ],
  "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-mood-of-the-country.read"
}