Ethel Cain says we are in an irony epidemic – is she right?
Be cringe. The world is dying from ironic distance.
Cringe is just another word for sincere, anyway.
And we really need more of that.
Lois Macsubstack.comexactly—irony was defeatist, timid, the telltale of a generation too afraid to say what it meant, and so in danger of forgetting it had anything to say.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
