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A grievance a collective self keeps only until the next grievance comes, so none is kept for the time its repair would take.

Outrage of the week (noun) means: A grievance a collective self keeps only until the next grievance comes, so none is kept for the time its repair would take. It emerges from grievance, collective self, keep, time: Grievance needs holding to press for repair; a stream of new reports gives each one too short a window, so the self keeps reporting and never arrives at repair. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

outrage-of-the-week.serial · forms: outrage cycle, outrage of the day, outrage of the week

ordinarily means: a controversy that briefly dominates attention before the next one replaces it

Examples

Emergence

from: grievance collective self keep time next come none repair take
through: Grievance needs holding to press for repair; a stream of new reports gives each one too short a window, so the self keeps reporting and never arrives at repair.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

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

built from — 1 more not shownoutrage of the weekL19outrage-of-the-week.serial — A grievance a collective self keeps only until the next grievance comes, so none is kept for the time its repair would tgrievanceL18grievance.held — A self model's reading that another set its walls nearer than a rule allowed, kept as something that other must repair.collective 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 keepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statetimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.nextL10next.temporal — the thing that follows now in timecomeL3come.arrive — To move through space until being at some place.noneL9none.quantity — no amount of a thingrepairL15repair.restore — Returning a parameter to within its window after it has drifted outside the performance range but not beyond the existen

Relations

contrasts-withsense-of-grievance.collectivea sense of grievance is kept across generations; the outrage of the week is replaced in days
contrasts-withvoter-fatigue.wornboth are wear from repetition, of keeping and of acting

Provenance

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