IRONY POLITICS & GEN Z Joshua Citarella
The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
thefreelibrary.com • E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction.
Many zoomers entered the workforce during the pandemic-affected economy. Naturally, this has major consequences for social attitudes about work --- and the viability of performing labor in times of crisis.
Vox • Gen Z does not dream of labor
But irony? Irony can cut through this framework. Irony lives the land of incongruity and dissonance. Irony is both what is and what seems to be. Irony defies. Irony refutes….I want to hold onto irony for its ability to protect us, to allow us to resist when the conventional wisdom is wrong and won’t listen to reason. It provides us a way to
... See more
Perversely, irony relies on some remains of cultural capital in order to coherently express its destructive message. If elevated beyond commentary and analysis to its own pedestal of artistic value, its essence become desacralization and the making trite of deep truths we might prefer to respect and conserve.