"Here is the weapon. Here is the damage. Here is how you agreed to it. Here is how it was hidden."
Five series. Twenty-nine papers. One reinforcing loop that funds its own invisibility — and a Youth Record documenting what that loop does to developing brains.
The four mechanisms of Saga I do not operate independently. Attention capture funds the deployment of neurotoxic digital environments. Neurotoxicity degrades the prefrontal function required to critically read consent documents. Degraded cognition makes the statistical machinery of measurement inaccessible — which means the population cannot evaluate the claims made about its own condition. Inaccessible measurement conceals the damage that funds the next cycle of attention capture.
This is a closed reinforcing loop. Each mechanism enables and amplifies the next. The system has no internal exit that its own instruments can detect — which is precisely what the Measurement Crisis series documents.
The four series of Saga I were written independently, from different entry points, using different disciplines. They converge because they are studying the same system from four angles.
The critical insight of the saga-level analysis is the loop structure. Individual series can be read as describing a problem. But the loop analysis shows why the problem is self-sustaining: the attention economy generates the revenue that funds the neurotoxic environment; the neurotoxic environment degrades the cognition that would otherwise produce regulatory resistance; the degraded cognition makes the consent manufactured by the attention economy legally uncontestable; and the measurement failures make the entire process invisible to the instruments that would otherwise document it.
This is not a problem with a regulatory fix at one point in the chain. It is a closed system. The Capture Loop meta-analysis is the first document to make this argument explicitly.