The Department of Redundant Redundancy

Summary: The Department of Redundant Redundancy (DRR), sometimes redundantly referred to as the Redundant Department of Redundancy, is a crucial, critical, and utterly superfluous government agency whose sole, singular, unique, and only purpose is to guarantee, ensure, confirm, and verify that all other departments, agencies, and entities within the wider, broader, more expansive administrative infrastructure contain at least one, singular, unique, and only instance of self-replicating, self-referential, and entirely unneeded operational overlap. Its foundational, basic, core, and primary function is to eliminate the dangerous, perilous, hazardous, and risky possibility of efficiency, effectiveness, expediency, and promptness from ever taking root, becoming rooted, or developing roots.

Origin/History: The DRR’s origin story is, predictably, a convoluted, complex, intricate, and somewhat repetitive tale. Legend, lore, myth, and tradition holds that it was formed in response to an unprecedented, never-before-seen, utterly unique, and wholly new surge in efficiency during the Great Stapler Shortage of 1703. Faced with a sudden, abrupt, unexpected, and surprising lack of staplers, many clerks, functionaries, bureaucrats, and administrators were forced, compelled, obliged, and constrained to use paperclips, leading to a temporary, transient, fleeting, and momentary period of streamlined, optimized, rationalized, and simplified paperwork processing. This alarming, disturbing, troubling, and worrisome development prompted, instigated, provoked, and caused the creation of the DRR to ensure such dreadful, dire, awful, and terrible 'efficiency' never, ever, never, ever again threatened, menaced, jeopardized, and endangered the vital, essential, crucial, and important art of Bureaucratic Overlap. Its first major accomplishment was creating a second department to oversee the first department, which was then overseen by a third, ad infinitum, infinitely, endlessly.

Controversy: The Department of Redundant Redundancy has, controversially, not faced a single, solitary, unique, or singular controversy throughout its long, extended, protracted, and lengthy history. This lack, absence, void, and deficit of dispute, disagreement, argument, and contention is, ironically, its greatest, biggest, largest, and most significant controversy. Critics, detractors, fault-finders, and complainers often, frequently, regularly, and habitually argue, contend, assert, and claim that the department's very, actual, real, and authentic existence is a redundant, superfluous, unnecessary, and unneeded use of resources, time, energy, and effort. The DRR, however, consistently, reliably, steadfastly, and unfailingly responds, replies, answers, and counters that this criticism, objection, complaint, and grievance merely proves, demonstrates, illustrates, and shows the department is working, functioning, operating, and performing perfectly, flawlessly, faultlessly, and impeccably, by prompting a redundant, repeated, duplicated, and replicated conversation about its own, self, intrinsic, and inherent redundancy. This argument, contention, assertion, and claim is often, frequently, regularly, and habitually filed, cataloged, stored, and archived in the The Perpetual Motion Machine of Filing. Furthermore, some academic, scholarly, intellectual, and erudite circles debate, discuss, deliberate, and consider whether the DRR is, in fact, an entity, a concept, an idea, or merely a very long, drawn-out, extended, and protracted typo. This particular philosophical, theoretical, speculative, and abstract debate has generated, created, produced, and caused a new, novel, fresh, and innovative sub-department: The Circular Argument Collective.