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CIVICVS Foundation Document

Document ID

CFD-INDEX-2025

Title

CIVICVS Foundation Index — Core Categories and Exemplars

Purpose

To provide a single reference point for all Foundation Documents (CFDs) that define the canonical categories of civic artifacts.

The Foundation Index ensures that every Civic Analyst, whether self-trained or collaborating with others, works from the same baseline: a stable taxonomy of artifact types, their significance, and their exemplars.

Foundation Categories

1. Conflict of Interest (COI)

  • Document: CFD-COI-2021-PFIZER-WEF-JSMITH
  • Definition: Immutable by Origin evidence revealing structural overlaps between power centers (corporate, political, governance).
  • Significance: COIs explain systemic bias and narrative manipulation.
  • Analyst Rule: Always treat COIs as primary artifacts, not background context.

2. Contested Immutable Record (CIR)

  • Document: CFD-CIR-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM
  • Definition: Official records that are immutable in form, but disputed in accuracy or legitimacy, often confronted by counter-artifacts.
  • Significance: CIRs show where institutional, cultural, or scientific authorities remain in permanent tension.
  • Analyst Rule: Preserve all sides — never collapse contested records into a single “truth.”

3. Academic Integrity (AI)

  • Document: CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION
  • Definition: Failures of scholarly integrity (plagiarism, falsification, misconduct) that compromise the civic protocol of knowledge production.
  • Significance: Academic integrity is a civic duty, not a private professional standard. Its collapse destabilizes institutional trust.
  • Analyst Rule: Preserve comparative exhibits and institutional responses as civic artifacts.

4. Context Dossier (CTX)

See CFD-CTX-INDEX.md

5. Media Actors (MA)

  • Document: CFD-MA-2010-2025-NEW-MEDIA-ACTORS
  • Definition: Non-institutional actors who shape discourse (podcasts, influencers, citizen journalists, viral media, fake news, and Civic Analysts).
  • Significance: Media actors produce fragile, mutable narratives that must be preserved and classified without mistaking them for evidence.
  • Analyst Rule: Distinguish between civic noise and civic evidence; elevate the Civic Analyst as the corrective actor producing permanence.

6. Media Infrastructure (MI)

  • Document: CFD-MI-2025-MEDIA-INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Definition: The mediums and protocols through which artifacts are created and transmitted (print, proprietary audio/video, centralized and decentralized platforms, forums, private networks, routing protocols).

  • Significance: The infrastructure dictates durability, provenance, and civic legitimacy.

  • Analyst Rule:

    • Print = preferred, forensic, immutable.
    • Proprietary media = excluded (profit-driven concealment).
    • Centralized = fragile, censored, must be archived.
    • Decentralized = resilient, independence-preserving.
    • Owner-operated = fragile but true free speech.
    • Private networks = unreliable and balkanized.
    • Routing protocols (Tor, IPFS, blockchain) = future durability, but require provenance safeguards.

7. Organizational Guise (OG)

  • Document: CFD-OG-2025-ORGANIZATIONAL-GUISE

  • Definition: Institutions presenting themselves as serving the public good, but whose preserved artifacts reveal misalignment between claimed purpose and actual output.

  • Subtypes & Exemplars:

    1. Facade NGOs — Planned Parenthood, Black Lives Matter
    2. Pseudo-Governments — Homeowners Associations (HOAs)
    3. State-Subsidized Guise — National Public Radio (NPR)

  • Significance: OGs corrupt civic trust by disguising political, financial, or coercive agendas under moralized branding.

  • Analyst Rule: Always preserve both the claimed purpose (mission statements, branding) and actual outputs (financial filings, audits, measurable services). Misalignment itself is the civic artifact.

8. Civic Artifact Entry (CAE)

  • Document: CAE-2025-CIVIC-ARTIFACT-ENTRY

  • Definition: Individual civic artifacts preserved as evidence of corrosion, coercion, or survival strategies in the post-humane society. Each CAE captures a single event, system, or policy that transforms civic rights into conditional privileges.

  • Subtypes & Exemplars:

    • Social Credit Score — Conditioning access to housing, credit, or employment on opaque behavioral metrics.
    • COVID Passport — Conditioning travel, employment, and civic participation on medical compliance.
    • Count All Votes — The tabulation of illegal or ineligible votes alongside legal ballots, eroding electoral integrity.
    • ANTIFA — A militant anarchist enforcement vector, masked rioters exploiting protest to introduce anarchy, arson, and intimidation; designated as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in 2025 based on the public Record.

  • Significance: CAEs preserve the operational evidence of corrosion — specific cases, policies, and practices that show civic protections failing in practice. They provide the most credible, study-ready artifacts for analysts and future cases.

  • Analyst Rule: Always preserve the case files (legal proceedings, mandates, administrative orders, personal experiences). Treat CAEs as the living record of civic corrosion: concrete, examinable, and auditable.

Analyst Notes

  • Immutability is the anchor: Whether by origin (COI), by dispute (CIR), or by construction (AI, MA), artifacts must be preserved immutably.
  • Separation of roles: Context Dossiers (CTX) provide structural maps; Artifact Entries (CAE) capture single items; Foundation Documents (CFD) define categories.
  • Ethics over morality: Analysts judge artifacts against ethical protocols (disclosure, integrity, transparency), not moral rhetoric.
  • Infrastructure and organization: Civic Analysts must consider both the channel (Media Infrastructure) and the guise of institutions when evaluating civic claims.

Civic Consequence

The CIVICVS Foundation Index now defines seven core civic artifact categories: COI, CIR, AI, CTX, MA, MI, OG.

Together, they form the structural backbone of the discipline. With these categories, any civic controversy — from policy disputes to NGO scandals to viral misinformation — can be analyzed within a reproducible, auditable framework that balances artifact permanence, context, actor, infrastructure, and organizational legitimacy.

✅ Status: Foundation Index updated (2025). Categories Established: COI, CIR, AI, CTX, MA, MI, OG.