Sixty-one articles tracing America's moral trajectory from 1900 to 2025. Data-driven. Mathematically modeled. Historically grounded. This is the empirical case — what happened, when it happened, and the physics underneath it.
Six generations. One family. The same equation running underneath every chapter. Start here — Samuel in 1900, follow the thread through Henry, William, Thomas, Jacob, and end in 2025. The data lives in the articles. The story lives in the family.
Watch the Story ThreadSix generations of one American family — Samuel (1900), Henry (1926), William (1950), Thomas (1974), Jacob (1998), and Jacob again in 2025. The human thread that runs through the data.
How we measure moral health. The nine domains, the coherence metric, the statistical spine. The instruments before the diagnosis.
1900 to 2024, decade by decade. The baseline, the peak, the fissure, the long decline, the unraveling, the decoupling. What the data shows.
Phase transitions, cascade dynamics, semantic collapse, cognitive decline, phantom money, the observer problem. The physics of how societies break.
The control group. If the model is right, a community that preserved coherence should show it. The Amish do. Korea confirms it independently.
Can it be reversed? Individual recovery, the open question, and the way back. The diagnosis is complete — now what?