# ordinary people (core)

*Ordinarily means:* people without special wealth, rank or power, seen as the bulk of the public

A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group by power: the members who hold none over its walls, against the few who do.

- Computed level: L17 (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), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [hold](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hold.physical), [division](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-division.process), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [none](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-none.quantity), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [against](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition)

**Through:** The line is drawn by who sets the walls and who lives inside them; the in-group is named by lacking power, so the group's true self reads as the ones it is done to.

**Novel properties:**
- an in-group defined by lacking power
- the many read as the group itself

## Examples
- Aaron Copland's 1942 'Fanfare for the Common Man' took its title from a speech by US Vice President Henry Wallace. *(music)*

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