# shock doctrine (exploit)

Power setting walls on a collective self while, after a sudden crossing, it has no reading of its reach, before its members resist.

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [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), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [sudden](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sudden.temporal), [cross](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cross.pass), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [resist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-resist.oppose)

**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.

**Novel properties:**
- timing used as power
- walls set in the gap between a shock and the self's next reading

## 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)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shock-doctrine.exploit*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shock-doctrine.exploit.json*  
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