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The Declaration: Severing from the Source (10/10) (This is the tenth and final part in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: VIOLATION OVERLAY The Structure The Declaration makes specific metaphysical claims and specific grievances.
The Constitutional Unraveling (09/10) (This is the ninth in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) 1.
The Familial Disintegration: The Divorce Revolution (07/10) (This is the seventh in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) Domain V: The Familial Disintegration The breakdown of the semantic, spiritual/educational, and institutional substrates destabilized the primary unit of social repr...
The Economic & Physical Lag: The Last Dominoes (08/10) (This is the eighth in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) Domain VI: The Economic and Somatic Lag The material conditions of society—economic health and physical health—were the last to break.
The Moral Collapse: The Explosion of Violence & Distrust (06/10) (This is the sixth in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) Domain IV: The Institutional and Moral Collapse As the internal governors (Semantic/Spiritual) failed, the external manifestations of order (Safety/Trust) beg...
The Cognitive Decline: The Great SAT Score Turnover (04/10) (This is the fourth in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) Domain II: The Cognitive and Educational Substrate Following the semantic decay, the next domains to register threshold crossings were those responsible for the trans...
The Spiritual & Psychological Collapse (05/10) (This is the fifth in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) Domain III: The Spiritual and Psychological Shift The transition from a culture of “character” to a culture of “personality” necessitated a shift in how internal distress was m...
The Semantic Precursor: How Language Fails First (03/10) (This is the third in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) Domain I: The Semantic Precursor (Language) The investigation begins with the semantic domain, testing the proposition that a culture’s structural integrity is predicted ...
The Conclusion: A Predictive Framework for Collapse (This is the first in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) The “Great De-Moralization” of 1960-1980 was not a random series of unfortunate events, but a sequential cascade.
The Anatomy of a Phase Transition (02/10) (This is the second in a 10-part series on the Moral Decline of America.) 1.