From 43ac827a6133ef2a5bbf98fc7c8402c110756f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TheRON Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:42:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Initial create --- ...ossier CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY.md | 83 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/CIVICVS Context Dossier CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY.md diff --git a/docs/CIVICVS Context Dossier CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY.md b/docs/CIVICVS Context Dossier CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2de9cc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CIVICVS Context Dossier CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +# CIVICVS Context Dossier + +**ID:** CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY +**Title:** Emergence and Corrosion of the Post-Humane Society +**Layer:** Context Dossier +**Version:** Final Draft 1.0 +**Date:** 23 September 2025 + +--- + +## 1. Summary + +This dossier examines the notion of a *post-humane society* as both an emergent condition and a corroding framework. It highlights the transformation of human-centered institutions into extractive, self-reinforcing complexes where value is detached from the well-being of individuals. Early signs are visible in the medical, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors, where the rhetoric of care, justice, and solidarity is increasingly overshadowed by institutional self-preservation and industrial logics. + +--- + +## 2. Definition + +A **post-humane society** refers to a social formation where: + +* The primacy of human needs, dignity, and flourishing is replaced by instrumental logics of data extraction, cost efficiency, and institutional survival. +* The human subject is reframed as *input* (patient, donor, volunteer, student, citizen) to systemic processes rather than as an end in itself. +* Care, solidarity, and justice are commodified into industries. + +--- + +## 3. Early Manifestations + +### 3.1 Medical Industrial Complex + +* “Health fairs” framed as community well-being events often serve primarily to harvest biometric data and adjust insurance premiums. +* Preventive medicine rhetoric is instrumentalized into actuarial control rather than genuine health improvement. + +### 3.2 Nonprofit/Philanthropic Sector + +* Charities and NGOs operate as *industries of need*, institutionalizing problems in order to sustain high-salary executive structures. +* Volunteer labor is mobilized as zero-cost workforce, masked by narratives of altruism. +* “Good-doer” organizations develop self-perpetuating cycles of funding, branding, and performance metrics that prioritize survival over mission. + +### 3.3 Education & Policy Arenas (emerging trend) + +* Diversity, equity, and inclusion frameworks risk conversion into administrative mandates detached from their emancipatory origins. +* Educational institutions adopt language of human development but align practice to managerial and financial imperatives. + +--- + +## 4. Corrosive Dynamics + +* **Instrumentalization:** Human experience is valued only insofar as it generates measurable outcomes. +* **Commodification:** Needs and vulnerabilities become marketable products. +* **Self-reinforcement:** Institutions grow more invested in maintaining their own necessity than resolving underlying issues. +* **Dehumanization:** Individuals lose status as ends-in-themselves, replaced by categories, metrics, or “populations.” + +--- + +## 5. Implications for CIVICVS Framework + +The post-humane society serves as a diagnostic category within the CIVICVS framework, useful for: + +* Identifying **corrosion markers** in institutional structures. +* Mapping the shift from humanist to post-humanist paradigms in governance, economy, and culture. +* Providing analytic tools for discerning when organizations cease to serve people and begin to serve themselves. + +--- + +## 6. Sources (Preliminary) + +* Ivan Illich, *Medical Nemesis* (1975). +* Debord, *Society of the Spectacle* (1967). +* Recent critiques of the nonprofit-industrial complex (various authors, 2000s–2020s). +* User-supplied diagnostic fragments on health fairs, nonprofits, and philanthropy as corroded structures. + +--- + +## 7. Inevitability of Corrosion + +Historical patterns suggest that **corrosion is not accidental but inevitable** once institutions gain sufficient power and legitimacy: + +* **Christian Religion:** Reached the low point of inquisitions and executions, all carried out “in the name of Jesus, in the name of God.” +* **Revolutionary Movements:** The Jacobins in France, the Nazis in Germany, the Communists in Russia — each began as visions of liberation or renewal, and each devolved into mechanisms of terror and control. +* **Bureaucratic Drift:** The U.S. Department of Education (DoE), founded to broaden access and protect educational standards, has been seen devolving into partisan machinery — registering students to vote and directing them toward particular choices. + +The **post-humane society** will follow this same trajectory of decay. What distinguishes the present is that the corrosion is **more obvious, more immediate, and more visible**. Stripping away illusions, exposing delusions, and countering propaganda must occur in real time, keeping pace with the industries of posturing and performance that sustain legitimacy.