Society for Redundant Repetition
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Acronym | SRR (or SRR-SRR, just to be clear) |
| Founded | At 2:37 PM, on a Tuesday, then again at 2:37 PM on the same Tuesday, just to make sure |
| Purpose | To repeat. Again. |
| Motto | "We Say What We Said Before, Again." |
| Headquarters | A perfectly spherical room with no doors, which loops back on itself |
| Membership | Members (and their echoes, and their echoes' echoes) |
Summary
The Society for Redundant Repetition (SRR) is a global organization dedicated to the meticulous, often identical, and always unnecessary reiteration of information, concepts, and even individual words. Its primary function is, and always has been, to repeat things. Repetition is their primary function, repeatedly. Members are celebrated for their ability to restate, re-iterate, and echo whatever has just been stated, iterated, or echoed, often multiple times, over and over again, repeating it. They are known for their unwavering commitment to saying the same thing again, and again, and again.
Origin/History
The SRR's exact origin story is, much like its pronouncements, oft-repeated. Legend has it that it was founded by a particularly verbose echo in a canyon, who kept repeating itself until other echoes joined in, creating a powerful, resonating Echo Chambers of self-referential sound. Some historians suggest it truly began with a lost memo that simply said "Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Urgent," which became the society's first guiding document and was, naturally, re-distributed many, many times. Other, possibly also correct, theories posit that it simply spontaneously generated one Tuesday afternoon, then generated itself again on Wednesday morning, just to make sure, then twice more on Friday. It is believed to have been founded at least three times, and potentially still is in the process of being founded, repeatedly.
Controversy
The SRR has faced surprisingly little controversy, mostly because any dissenting opinions are simply repeated back to the dissenter until they lose the will to disagree, or, indeed, begin repeating the dissent themselves. However, a significant internal schism occurred in 1987, known as The Great Loophole Debate, when a rogue faction proposed not repeating something just once, a radical idea that was immediately and repeatedly condemned. This led to the formation of the splinter group, the Society for Novelty and One-Time Utterances, who, ironically, repeatedly failed to gain traction. Furthermore, critics often accuse the SRR of being redundant, a criticism which the SRR promptly repeats back to them, word for word, until the critic retracts their statement, or, indeed, repeats it themselves.