# yes-men (filtered)

*Ordinarily means:* subordinates who always agree with their superior

Others under a power who report only what agrees with its model, so the power acts on a model its own power keeps from changing.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information), [agreement](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agreement.social), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [feedback](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-feedback.communication)

**Through:** Each report passes through the reporter's model of what the power will punish, and only agreement gets through. The power reads a world that confirms it, so the wider its power the narrower what reaches its model.

**Novel properties:**
- a filter built out of the holder's own power
- feedback that returns only the holder's model
- readings that narrow as power grows

## Examples
- Arthur Schlesinger later wrote that he stayed nearly silent in Kennedy's meetings before the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion despite his doubts; Irving Janis used the case in his study of groupthink. *(politics)*

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