What starts in one mind doesn’t stay there.
Every narrowing and every expansion — from anxiety to clarity, from collapse to renewal — echoes outward. Families, generations, institutions, even civilizations move through the same rhythm.
This is the motion Moral Bandwidth Theory was built to trace.
Over the next six essays, I’ll follow that motion across scales: how bandwidth expands and contracts from the individual mind to the fate of civilizations — and how connection is either preserved or lost along the way.
The series:
The Hidden Thread Linking Minds and Civilizations
Individual Bandwidth: Where Collapse Begins, and Renewal is Possible
Family & Community Bandwidth: The Shared Scaffolds of Stability and Imagination
Generational Bandwidth: When Old Scaffolds No Longer Fit New Realities
Societal Bandwidth: Institutions, Trust, and the Risk of Calcification
Civilizational Bandwidth: How Empires Rise, Calcify, and Collapse
It begins with Part 1: The Hidden Thread Linking Minds and Civilizations — publishing Tuesday, October 7.
If MBT began as an inward lens, this is the moment it turns outward.