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A period in which many members of a collective self act together on grievance against the walls those who govern set, kept later in its narrative.

Winter of discontent (noun) means: A period in which many members of a collective self act together on grievance against the walls those who govern set, kept later in its narrative. It emerges from collective self, grievance, narrative, period: Grievances held separately become action together within one season; the narrative then keeps the season as a name for the reading it made of those who governed. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

winter-of-discontent.strikes · forms: winter of discontent

ordinarily means: a period of widespread strikes and public dissatisfaction, after Britain's winter of 1978-79

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self grievance narrative period member act against wall government set keep later
through: Grievances held separately become action together within one season; the narrative then keeps the season as a name for the reading it made of those who governed.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 4 more not shownwinter of discontentL19winter-of-discontent.strikes — A period in which many members of a collective self act together on grievance against the walls those who govern set, kecollective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one grievanceL18grievance.held — A self model's reading that another set its walls nearer than a rule allowed, kept as something that other must repair.narrativeL18narrative.self-story — A story a self model tells about its own past and future, which sets which actions read as its own.periodL3period.temporal — a part of time that is between both boundariesmemberL7member.social — a person that is a part of a groupactL3act.deed — do somethingagainstL13against.opposition — a thing that is different from another and does not go toward itwallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.

Relations

contrasts-withsense-of-grievance.collectivethe sense is held; the winter is when it is acted on
contrasts-withoutrage-of-the-week.serialoutrage passes unacted; a winter of discontent is action that stays in the narrative

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md