# right side of history (destined)

*Ordinarily means:* being on the side that the future will judge to have been right

A story reading history as moving toward one final state already set, so current acts are read by whether they move with it.

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

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [story](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-story.narrative), [history](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-history.record), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [toward](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-toward.spatial), [final](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-final.order), [state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-state.condition), [already](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-already.temporal), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [current](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-current.present), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation)

**Through:** The narrative reads the whole drift of history as having a direction, then places the self's acts relative to it; a verdict that only a later time could give is borrowed now, and used as a wall on which acts are acceptable.

**Novel properties:**
- drift read as direction
- a later verdict borrowed for current use
- opponents placed against time itself

## Examples
- Martin Luther King Jr. said 'the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice', adapting a line from Theodore Parker's 1853 sermons. *(history)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-right-side-of-history.destined*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-right-side-of-history.destined.json*  
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