We're building a platform to expose how modern economic systems and institutions profit from, perpetuate, and normalize human decline—physically, socially, and spiritually.
Interactive App Coming SoonGreatCrisis.org is a preview portal for a larger interactive web application currently in development. This prototype introduces the conceptual foundation, early analysis, and a sample visualization of the systemic patterns that connect economic incentives to human flourishing.
We're building a bridge between traditional investigative writing and an immersive data-visual experience that will make visible the hidden patterns of exploitation and decline.
Each pillar is under siege from powerful systems of distraction, exploitation, and decay. Our full platform will map how these pillars interconnect and how they're being undermined.
Health, Fitness, and Energy are foundational to human flourishing. Yet modern systems increasingly profit from chronic illness, diminished physical capability, and dependence.
The biological and social capacity to form families and raise children is declining globally, with alarming implications for social stability and continuation.
Attention spans, focus, and emotional resilience have been degraded by systems designed to capture, monetize, and manipulate human attention.
The frameworks that give meaning, purpose and moral direction have been systematically undermined, leaving many without foundations for decision-making.
Communities, institutions, and social bonds are fraying under pressure from systems that profit from isolation, polarization, and distrust.
The capacity to contribute through meaningful work has been compromised by economic structures that disconnect labor from purpose and impact.
Our research has compiled hundreds of statistics documenting decline in human flourishing across all six pillars. This preview highlights just a few of the most striking scientifically-validated insights:
Sperm counts have declined over 50% globally since the 1970s (Levine et al., 2017), with implications for fertility, hormonal health, and generational continuity.
Suicidal ideation among teen girls has doubled in the last decade (CDC, 2023), amid rising rates of depression, anxiety, and social disconnection.
U.S. military recruitment faces critical shortfalls linked to rising obesity and psychological unfitness (Military.com, 2022), threatening national security foundations.
Over 60% of U.S. adults now report loneliness or social isolation, a rate declared a public health crisis by the U.S. Surgeon General, with impacts on mental and physical health.
Below-replacement fertility in 90+ countries, with elite urban centers bottoming near 1.0 TFR, threatening economic stability and social cohesion.
This preview highlights just 6 of the 27 industries we've mapped that directly contribute to human decline, and doesn't yet reveal our research on the 14 hidden meta-industries that profit from these decline vectors. The complete platform will expose the full network of extractive systems:
The complete GreatCrisis.org platform will reveal our comprehensive analysis of 27 direct industries and 14 meta-industries that profit from human decline, with dynamic tools for understanding and addressing these systemic challenges.
Connecting industries to patterns of societal decline through dynamic, explorable visualizations.
Showing compounding effects across health, fertility, trust, and vitality metrics.
Revealing profit vectors that exploit human vulnerability and tracking key indicators.
An interactive experience that lets users trace false solutions, regulatory capture, and coercive incentives.
The Labyrinth represents the complex network of incentives, regulations, and cultural forces that trap individuals and society in cycles of decline. Our interactive experience will let you navigate these pathways and discover the exit points.
Example pattern: How pharmaceutical interventions for metabolic issues caused by ultra-processed foods create new health complications, requiring additional interventions, while food industry lobbying prevents upstream solutions.
If this preview resonates with you—or if you see through the Labyrinth and want to help build the future—consider joining the team shaping the full version.
Email join@tnt.institute to get involved.
We are actively seeking collaborators in systems mapping, frontend and data visualization, behavioral economics, narrative design, and policy engagement.
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