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How the Living Meter works

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Live Historic is a free website. Before you press play on a movie or a show, it gives that story a score from 0 to 100. The score asks one question. Is this story worth passing on to the next person in your family?

The film is a minute and forty-three seconds. Turn the sound on. You will see a family in the evening, then the desk. Ask for a title. Read the Living Meter. Read the eight scores. Save it, and send it to your house.

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Why it was built

A family is a chain of people. You were given a way of living by the people before you. Someone will be given one by you. You have about seventy or eighty years in the chain. In those years your work is to keep what was worth keeping, and to pass it on in a condition the next people can actually use.

The evening is part of that work. For two or three hours, a movie or a show is showing the house what a life looks like. It shows who keeps a promise. It shows whether work matters. It shows whether a child is safe. It shows whether anyone owes anything to the people who will still be here after we are gone.

Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Prime Video choose most of those hours now. Their business is to get the next click. Live Historic is not trying to replace them, and it is not trying to put them out of business. You still watch on their service. Live Historic stands in front of the play button and puts a score on the story, so the house can choose with a longer view than the next click.

Getting more visitors is not the goal. A family that picks a better story on a Sunday night is the goal.

How the score works

The score is called the Living Meter. It runs from 0 to 100. A higher number means the story is more fit to hand on.

We look at eight things. Each one is scored from 0 to 10. We add those eight numbers, divide by eight, and multiply by ten. That is the number you see. There is no hidden step. A 10 means the story loves this and you leave more able to practice it. A 7 means it is present and taken seriously. A 5 is split. A 3 treats it as naive or in the way. A 0 teaches the opposite and enjoys the teaching. Showing a fault is not the same as praising it. The question is what the story loves, excuses, and leaves a person more likely to do.

1. Work

Does the story honor real work, a skill, and earning what you eat? A high score means someone finishes a real job, the work feeds a house, and the person is more useful at the end than at the start. Rest comes after the work. A low score cuts getting loose from making. Ordinary work is a joke, or a windfall is the moral. This is not a lecture about hustle, and it is not a wage. A poor person who does the work can outscore a rich person who does not.

2. Home

Are a marriage, a promise between two people, and children treated as a life, or as a prop? A high score keeps a vow, or breaks it and pays the cost. Children are people. Adults still have authority. A low score treats the home as furniture, a prison, or a laugh, or uses a child and does not protect that child. A story does not have to be about a family. One with no house in it can still honor a house, or show what the absence costs.

3. Conscience

Is a person allowed to answer to God, or to a real sense of right and wrong? A high score lets conscience stop someone. Reverence is allowed. Someone answers to more than appetite and the crowd. An honest believer can be in the story. A low score uses faith only as the setup for a joke, or leaves no room for conscience at all. We are not scoring which church a person attends. A story that never mentions church can still pass. A cross in the background is not an automatic pass.

4. Courage

Does someone risk a thing that matters, for a reason that is not only himself? The cost can be a name, a job, a fortune, a friendship, or a body. A high score means the person pays that price and is changed by it. A low score is noise, revenge dressed up as bravery, or a hero who risks nothing he cares about. A fight by itself is not courage. A quiet refusal can be.

5. Neighbors and the law

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a town, or a law, or is every person out for himself? A high score means a person belongs to other people, freedom still has a limit someone can enforce, and duty is not the punchline. A flawed town can still be worth keeping. A low score treats every person as a predator and every office as a fraud, and enjoys that conclusion. This is not a score for a political party, and it is not a parade. A story can criticize a town and still believe the people in it are owed something.

6. Limits

Drink, sex, anger, money, and the habit of wanting the next thing. A story may show all of them. A high score shows the excess and then puts it back in its place. A person in the story can stop. A low score makes the pleasure of the story the loss of the limit, and trains the viewer to want more of it. Showing a fault is not the same as teaching it. A night of drinking that ends with a bill can outscore a binge the story treats as glamorous.

7. Truth

Does a spoken promise still bind the person who made it, and does a lie come due? A high score means a promise costs something. Facts stay facts. The viewer is asked to notice a deception, not to enjoy being fooled. A low score makes the lie the whole charm, and nobody pays. A surprise ending is allowed. A life built on deceit, and rewarded for it, is not.

8. What you leave

What is left for the people who come after? A child, a field, a trade, a house, a name. A high score means someone keeps a thing they will not live long enough to finish enjoying, and refuses to strip a place for a short gain. A low score ends with one person. Nothing is owed forward. This is not only land, and it is not only money. A skill taught, a house kept, and a name left clean all count.

If you save titles for one person, that person’s number is the average of those titles. The household’s number is the average of the people in the house. We treat 70 or above as a story you can put on again without apology. Once a week, the site names one title to take off the list and one title to put in its place.

This is not a medical test. It does not say that anyone is sick, and it does not say that a child is behind. It is a judgment of a story. Parents already make that judgment. The site writes it down, in the same way every time, so the whole house can see it.

What you will see on the website

Open the site. At the top is a list of forty movies and shows. They are new, or people are watching them now. Each one already has a score. The highest scores come first. A title is not put in front of you until it has a number. The first picture in that list is this film. Press Play to start it. Press Download to keep a copy, with the sound.

Below that is a search box. Type the name of a movie or a show. You get the score. You do not need an account to look.

Share sends that score to another person. You can copy a link, send a text, or save a one-page sheet you can hand to someone.

Annie is a voice on the site. If you would rather ask a question out loud than type, you can talk to her.

Join is how a household is written down. There is no password. We never ask for your Netflix password, or the password of any other streaming service. A child does not get an account. A parent may write a child’s name, because the parent is the one deciding. Whatever you enter stays on that phone or that computer. We do not take it off the device. We do not sell it. We do not share it. You can erase it. There is no monthly fee.

What this is not

This is not a request for money.

Live Historic is proposed as a nonprofit, the kind of school the tax law calls a 501(c)(3). The board has a written proposal. The board has not approved sending it. It has not been filed with the IRS. The IRS has not approved it. Until an approval letter arrives, a gift cannot be deducted on a tax return. Do not send money on the belief that it can.

What to do

Watch the film. It is a minute and forty-three seconds. Then open the website and look up one movie or show your house already watches. Read the number, and decide whether you would still put that title on.

The time in front of us

Thirty days from October 23, 2026 runs through November 22, 2026. One quarter runs through January 22, 2027. If more families come, that will not be a reason to weaken these rules. We will not add passwords. We will not give a child an account. We will not sell what a family enters. We will not put advertising on the site.

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