# outrage of the week (serial)

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

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

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [grievance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-grievance.held), [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [next](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-next.temporal), [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [none](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-none.quantity), [repair](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-repair.restore), [take](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-take.acquisition)

**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.

**Novel properties:**
- grievance without memory
- attention as the wall that ends each report

## Examples
- Media critics use 'outrage of the week' for controversies that dominate coverage for a few days and are then displaced by the next. *(media)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outrage-of-the-week.serial*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outrage-of-the-week.serial.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*