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America’s apparent stability may conceal a metastable crisis—an unstable equilibrium maintained by institutional resilience, political inertia, and media-driven narratives. Using the Psychosocial Pressure Index (PPI), a real-time monitoring system for population-level psychosocial stress, this analysis finds critical pressure in social and economic dimensions masked by strong resilience scores. The 2025 U.S. government shutdown, SNAP benefit disruptions, and record political

The Psychosocial Pressure Index (PPI) applies a multi-dimensional monitoring framework to detect metastable states in population-level psychosocial dynamics. This 2025 national case study identifies rising social and economic pressure masked by institutional resilience—patterns historically linked to pre-collapse conditions. Results inform early warning system design for anticipating systemic stress transitions.

The Psychosocial Pressure Index (PPI) is a lawful analytical framework developed to quantify how social, economic, and institutional systems respond under complexity and pressure. Unlike sentiment or predictive models, the PPI measures coherence itself — identifying when societies enter a metastable state: stable in appearance, but increasingly sensitive to stress. Its purpose is not to forecast collapse, but to provide lawful awareness — a measurable signal of systemic tens

Issued by:  Don L. Gaconnet Field Authority:  Collapse Harmonics Codex I & II | Recursive Sciences Institution:  LifePillar Institute...