# high horse (mounted)

*Ordinarily means:* an attitude of superiority you have to be talked down from

a self-model held at an elevation where others must look up to read it, and from which the dismount is demanded from below rather than chosen from the saddle.

- Computed level: L20 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: model and reality

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [above](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-above.spatial), [high](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-high.spatial), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [look](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-look.visual), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [hold](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hold.physical), [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep)

**Through:** The elevation is a placement, not an error: the model is held above the range others read from, which fixes the reading angle for everyone; and because the others hold the angle, they also hold the only demand that ends it.

**Novel properties:**
- reading angle imposed on others
- externally demanded dismount
- placement rather than error

## Examples
- The reviewer's comments are all correct, and the team's request is not that they be wrong but that they be made from a desk. *(workplace)*
- The lecture ends when the teenager says come down, not when the parent finishes. *(family)*
- The sanctioning country discovers that lifting sanctions is negotiated with the sanctioned. *(diplomacy)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-high-horse.mounted*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-high-horse.mounted.json*  
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