self-sufficient · autarkic
Ask PrometheusA collective self that narrows its boundary until nothing it needs comes from outside it, so no out-group can set its walls.
Self-sufficient (adjective) means: A collective self that narrows its boundary until nothing it needs comes from outside it, so no out-group can set its walls. It emerges from collective self, boundary, need, nothing: By making the boundary the edge of everything the group needs, dependence on outsiders is cut, and with it every wall they could set; the price is what the group can reach. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Juche, North Korea's official state ideology, makes self-reliance a stated aim of the state. politics
Emergence
from: collective self boundary need nothing come out-group autonomy dependence narrow time outside set wall
through: By making the boundary the edge of everything the group needs, dependence on outsiders is cut, and with it every wall they could set; the price is what the group can reach.
- autonomy bought with a narrower reach
- no outside setter because no outside need
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (369 steps)
- self-sufficientL17
- collective selfL15
- self-modelL14
- memberL7
- groupsL5
- modelL9
- keepL5
- acrossL13
- readL7
- subjectL5
- boundaryL2
- needL5
- stateL2
- differenceL1
- persistL1
- conditionL3
- objectL4
- nothingL10
- comeL3
- out-groupL16
- autonomyL13
- dependenceL10
- narrowL5
- timeL0
- outsideL6
- setL9
- wallL8
- collective selfL15
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | autonomy.self-governed | autonomy is walls set from within; self sufficiency pursues it by needing nothing from outside |
| contrasts-with | strategic-industry.kept | a strategic industry keeps one need inside; self sufficiency keeps all of them |