#contrasensus

[the-fermi-system]

Systember '25 | Day 4: Expression

Our school has a subject centred around finding oneself. It does not account for those who have multiple.

The background is full of doodles, symbolising a lack of focus in class. Individually, they represent members or certain aspects of our system.

I made an actual Google Form and took screenshots for realism. It asks you to define yourself in a single word, but we answer "story" because a story is a collection of multiple words.

Edit: Did some digging and we actually did have to do a task like this! We got three words, though. I forgot what we wrote 😅

Similar to the submission for day 2, the colours blurring in our body represent blurriness in our mind. You may also notice said colours are picked from the plural flag. 😉

[plural-rambles]

we love making up words for our experience as a system! some of us feel unsafe researching on plural-specific sites, even in incognito mode or after deleting our search history, so we coin a lot of our own terms.

here's one of our favourites:

Contrasensus (noun)

A form of cognitive dissonance caused by different members of a system having conflicting opinions about something. Contrasensus tends to make decision-making harder.

(we don't mind who uses this term! if you want to make flags or upload definitions to wikis or archives that's fine too!)

- Fermi

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