# wounded nation (damaged)

*Ordinarily means:* a country felt to be in collective pain after an attack, loss or hardship

A collective self reporting that a sudden change or a drift moved its parameters to a wall or over it, felt as loss by members it did not touch.

- Computed level: L20 (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), [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [belonging](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-belonging.member), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information), [sudden](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sudden.temporal), [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [drift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-drift.aimless), [motion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-motion.movement), [parameter](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parameter.condition), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [feel](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-feel.sensory), [loss](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loss.economic), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [touch](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-touch.together)

**Through:** Belonging makes a crossing suffered by some members read as suffered by the whole; the self model then reports its own window as damaged, and members who lost nothing report the loss.

**Novel properties:**
- pain held by those not hit
- a wall crossing read as done to the whole

## Examples
- After the September 11, 2001 attacks, commentators across the political spectrum described the United States as a wounded nation. *(politics)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wounded-nation.damaged*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wounded-nation.damaged.json*  
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