# rising power (upward)

*Ordinarily means:* a country whose strength and influence are growing

A collective self whose reach over others is read by both as wider over time, so current walls read as set for a smaller self.

- Computed level: L16 (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), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [wide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wide.spatial), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [current](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-current.present), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [small](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-small.size), [self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self.personal)

**Through:** Its reach drifts upward while the walls between it and others were set when it was smaller; both sides read the gap, so the rising self presses to reset them and the others read that pressure as a threat.

**Novel properties:**
- walls outgrown by the reach they were set for
- a trajectory read by both parties at once
- strain produced by a gap in time, not by any single act

## Examples
- Thucydides wrote that what made the Peloponnesian War inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear this caused in Sparta. *(history)*

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