# CIVICVS Context Index --- ## Context Dossiers * **Document:** CFD-CTX-2015-2024-HARVARD-DEI-POLICY * **Definition:** Environments of processes and records (policies, funding, governance, law) that frame civic disputes. * **Significance:** Provides structured context for contested civic debates, grounded in immutable processes (admissions, budgets, filings). * **Analyst Rule:** Document the *environment*, not just the event. * **Document:** CFD-CTX-2025-POST-HUMANE-SOCIETY * **Definition:** Emergence and corrosion of the *post-humane society*, where human-centered institutions devolve into extractive complexes. * **Significance:** Establishes diagnostic category for institutional corrosion, linking early manifestations to historical inevitabilities. * **Analyst Rule:** Preserve both the early indicators (health, nonprofits, education) and the trajectory toward systemic corrosion. * **Document:** CFD-CTX-2025-LEGAL-SELF-PROTECTION * **Definition:** Emergence of legal self-protection markets in the U.S. (property, identity, self-defense) as civic protections corrode. * **Significance:** Establishes diagnostic category for survival in the post-humane society. * **Analyst Rule:** Distinguish between autonomy-reinforcing vs. dependency-reinforcing protections.