# mood of the country (read)

*Ordinarily means:* how the people of a country generally feel about its state and direction

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.

- Computed level: L16 (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), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [want](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-want.desire)

**Through:** 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
- 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. *(politics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mood-of-the-country.read.json*  
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