sick man of europe · others-read
Ask PrometheusA once large power that others read as too narrow in its reach to hold its own walls, so they plan to set them instead.
Sick man of europe (noun) means: A once large power that others read as too narrow in its reach to hold its own walls, so they plan to set them instead. It emerges from once, large, power, others: Others' model of the self has moved from its past reach to its current weakness; once they read its walls as unheld, their own plans begin to set them, and the reading itself narrows its reach further. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: a country regarded as weak and failing compared with its neighbours or its past
Examples
- In the nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire was called 'the sick man of Europe', a phrase attributed to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. history
Emergence
- a decline read and acted on from outside
- walls treated as vacant before they fall
- a reading that feeds the weakness it reports
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (412 steps)
- sick man of europeL16
- onceL5
- largeL3
- powerL14
- reachL13
- setL9
- wallL8
- windowL7
- othersL2
- othersL2
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- differenceL1
- marksL5
- patternL0
- entitiesL4
- narrowL5
- reachL13
- holdL13
- wallL8
- planL11
- setL9
- insteadL10
- reputationL15
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | country-in-decline.downward | decline is read from inside; the sick man is read from outside |
| contrasts-with | paper-tiger.untested | a paper tiger is read as stronger than it is; the sick man is read as weaker than its past |