Cybernetic Socialist Republics wrote:Part I.Tiffany Abdelmassih(Image)
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Tiffany Abdelmassih was born on February 9, 2099 in Toronto, Canada. Her mother was a member of the General Council of the Eironic Corporation, one of the largest federation of cooperatives on earth, formed in the mid 21st century out of the merger of multiple credit unions, building organisations & trade union funds across the english & spanish speaking world. Tiffany'ss mother was second generation CRISPR augment, the daughter of two first generation CRISPR augments born in the mid 2030s. The process that created Tiffany, however, was different. She was conceived as an embryo selected by the EC's artificial intelligence agent, fertilised with genetic material synthesised from sequences of genetic information available to it in its database, meaning her father is, in a sense, the Eironic Corporation itself.
Her early childhood was spent being smaller, slower and weaker than her peers, which given her background made her a rather constant targeting of bullying. She compensated by making use of her natural aptitude for planning, the written world & copious determination. In her teens the 'pace' of her cognition dramatically increased, along with facing a sudden growth spurt, that brought her to a baseline that she shared with other augments, though a childhood spent without the 'privilege' of those advantages made her far more suited to making use of them. By 24 she'd leave McGill University with a doctorate in Systems Engineer & would be recruited directly into the Eironic Corporation's working to coordinate the cooperatives providing services from the construction of the Harmony. Offered a position aboard as their Chief Logistics Officer, she was hesitant, until a company plane carrying her husband and child was brought down in a terrorist attack by anti-genetic engineer religious extremists. She immediately accepted the offer, ready to leave earth behind.Part II
Eironic Synthesis
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Eironism
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“Contrary to the imaginations of futurists at the dawn of the 21st century, the prime threat wouldn’t be the restriction of information, but its overabundance.
We didn’t get digital despotisms held aloft by dark pillars of generalised ignorance. We got disorder fueled by the production & consumption of infinite trivialities. Facing a world falling apart as a result of the sins of the previous century, humanity retreated into mutually exclusive & diverging false realities. Governance, democratic or dictatorial, increasingly grew impossible.” ~Tiffany Abdelmassih, Humanity at the Gallows: How a Century long Stay of Execution was won.
Eironism owes its name to the Greek dramatic archetype, the Eiron, a character whose victory is largely achieved through self-deprecation concealing their strengths from more confident opposed characters. Put simply and effectively, it's built on two pillars. One, that the most effective means of cutting through an overabundance of information & tearing down inefficient systems is through the purposeful search & exploitation of contradiction & specifically in the case of ideas 'comic irony'. Two, that the most effective solutions to programs are often the product of extreme contradiction. Eironist would not consider the fact that these two points stand in seeming contradiction as an example of this. Put simply, Eironists believe that any idea or object that survives the assault of the former, can be considered falling under the latter, until it is no longer capable of doing so. The Eironic Corporation itself exists as a monument to this ideology.
Beyond Infinity
This all looks good to me - Tiffany is also accepted. I'm waiting on two more applications, if memory serves, but then we should be good to get this party started.