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wi-o-li · W238

wioli · collective will; consent; public opinion as organized volition · ✅

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Domain Social / Political
Class entity / social state
Type compound
Register standard
First use MCH-001-C (S837): la-wi-ra ka lo-wi-o-li — "The powerful manufacture consent." (Chomsky & Herman, Manufacturing Consent, title concept from Walter Lippmann)

Composition

wi (will/intention) + o-li (V-prefix scope modifier o- + person root li = collective-persons). Head-final: o-li (collective persons) is head; wi (will) specifies what is collective — the will. wi-o-li = will-of-collective-persons = consent.

Definition

wi (will/intention) + o-li (collective persons, V-prefix scope) = will-of-the-collective = the organized volition of a group as a whole = consent / public opinion. Right-branching: wi modifies [o-li] = will of [collective-persons]. Distinct from wi (bare individual will), wi-ra (W177: directed will/power = will directed outward with force), wi-no-fe (freedom = will-without-limiting-boundary). wi-o-li is the collective dimension of wi: what the group-as-a-whole wills = their agreement, their consent, their organized shared intention. ka lo-wi-o-li = deliberate production of collective will = manufacturing consent (S837, MCH-001-C). Enables the propaganda model's central argument in four morphemes: la-wi-ra ka lo-wi-o-li = power manufactures consent.

wi (primitive: will/intention), o-li (collective persons: V-prefix o- + li), wi-ra (W177: directed-will/power — individual force-directed, distinct), wi-no-fe (freedom = wi-without-fe, distinct), ka-wi-o-li (manufacturing consent = deliberate wi-o-li production, compositional)

In the corpus

1 attestation.

S# Tonesu
S860 la-ti-go-su ne ra / no ne wi-o-li
"The law of History is the authority — not collective will."
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