# power (over)

The reach of one thing over the walls of another thing's window.

- Computed level: L14 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [window](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-window.range), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities)

**Through:** When a thing's reach includes walls that bound another thing's window, setting them changes where the other can be. The relation is power while the other cannot set the first one's walls back; read from the bounded side, the same relation is dependence.

**Novel properties:**
- an asymmetry between two windows
- a wall whose bearer is outside the window it bounds
- direction-free: widening another's window on one's own terms is still power

## Used by
- [asian century](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asian-century.claimed-future) (L19)
- [checkmate](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-checkmate.other-set) (L15)
- [chilling effect](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chilling-effect.induced-under) (L15)
- [deep state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deep-state.hidden) (L18)
- [deterrence](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deterrence.modeled-wall) (L16)
- [double bind](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-double-bind.contradictory) (L18)
- [economic nationalism](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economic-nationalism.firms) (L19)
- [elite](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-elite.few) (L17)
- [establishment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-establishment.settled) (L17)
- [federal](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-federal.government) (L18)
- [foreign interference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foreign-interference.outside) (L19)
- [gaslighting](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-gaslighting.hidden-edit) (L15)
- [helicopter parenting](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-helicopter-parenting.never-withdrawn) (L16)
- [hobson's choice](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hobsons-choice.one-option) (L18)
- [interregnum](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interregnum.no-setter) (L15)
- [lame duck](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lame-duck.ending) (L16)
- [legitimacy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-legitimacy.endorsed) (L17)
- [loophole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loophole.unmodelled) (L18)
- [mandate](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mandate.granted) (L18)
- [mood of the country](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mood-of-the-country.read) (L16)
- [national champion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-national-champion.carrier) (L18)
- [nudge](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nudge.drift-steer) (L15)
- [ordinary people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ordinary-people.core) (L17)
- [paper tiger](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-paper-tiger.untested) (L16)
- [political party](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-political-party.power) (L18)
- [political](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-political.governance) (L18)
- [power vacuum](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power-vacuum.absent-setter) (L15)
- [punching above our weight](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-punching-above-our-weight.outsized) (L19)
- [responsibility](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-responsibility.moral) (L15)
- [rising power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rising-power.upward) (L16)
- [shock doctrine](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shock-doctrine.exploit) (L20)
- [shooting the messenger](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shooting-the-messenger.channel-cut) (L16)
- [sick man of europe](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sick-man-of-europe.others-read) (L16)
- [taking off the training wheels](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-taking-off-the-training-wheels.withdrawn-support) (L16)
- [ultra vires](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ultra-vires.unauthorized) (L15)
- [we the people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-we-the-people.setter) (L18)
- [yes-men](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-yes-men.filtered) (L15)

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