shock doctrine · exploit
Ask PrometheusPower setting walls on a collective self while, after a sudden crossing, it has no reading of its reach, before its members resist.
Shock doctrine (noun) means: Power setting walls on a collective self while, after a sudden crossing, it has no reading of its reach, before its members resist. It emerges from power, set, collective self, reach: Resistance needs a self-read of reach; a shock erases it for a time, and a power that sets walls in that gap meets less opposition than the same walls would meet later. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 20, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Naomi Klein's 2007 book The Shock Doctrine argues that disasters and crises have been used to pass policies that would meet resistance at other times. politics
Emergence
through: Resistance needs a self-read of reach; a shock erases it for a time, and a power that sets walls in that gap meets less opposition than the same walls would meet later.
- timing used as power
- walls set in the gap between a shock and the self's next reading
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (457 steps)
- shock doctrineL20
- powerL14
- reachL13
- possibilityL12
- windowL7
- wallL8
- setL9
- enterL3
- actionL4
- setL9
- wallL8
- windowL7
- othersL2
- reachL13
- setL9
- collective selfL15
- reachL13
- wallL8
- timeL0
- suddenL19
- crossL4
- readL7
- memberL7
- resistL14
- persistL1
- interactionL2
- changeL1
- powerL14
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | shell-shocked.stunned | shell-shocked is the state; the shock doctrine is a power acting within it |
| contrasts-with | consent.given | consent lets another set walls while stopping it is within reach; here stopping it is briefly out of reach |