# take back our country (regain)

*Ordinarily means:* a call to restore control of a country to people who feel it has been taken from them

A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group, and holds setting them again from within as its purpose.

- Computed level: L19 (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), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [purpose](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-purpose.goal), [autonomy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-autonomy.self-governed), [grievance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-grievance.held), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [hold](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hold.physical)

**Through:** A reading that the walls are now set by others is joined to a purpose of resetting them, so the phrase is both a grievance and a plan.

**Novel properties:**
- a grievance turned into a purpose
- autonomy read as lost and recoverable

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-take-back-our-country.regain*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-take-back-our-country.regain.json*  
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