PeakSignal
These are the numbers that fell. Every one of them. Most of them fell by more than half. Several fell to near zero.
The baseline wasn't paradise. It was a coherent system with real fragilities, real injustices, and real entropy reserves that hadn't been processed. But it was coherent. The pieces reinforced each other. The equation was positive. dC/dt > 0.
What happened next — the hairline cracks of 1958-1967 — is the story of how a system that looked invincible from the outside was already coming apart at the joints.
That's Part 3.