Higher levels challenge discernment. Ironist: <a hard truth(?), w/ theatrically-self-deprecating casually pompous certainty> Stickler: Wait, was that 4th level irony, or just 2nd? Ironist: Maybe it was 5th... what did YOU hear? Stickler: I see. (Both squint and nod sagely.)
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Basic 1st level irony is a status move showing fundamental SOLIDARITY with common sense while signaling verbal/cognitive/social sophistication. Even levels can point to locally heterodox ideas in a way that trades on the ambiguity created by odd levels.
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At higher levels it might become unclear WHICH "local common sense" is being taken for granted, especially if a large audience can or does exist that will plausibly fail to fully unwrap "the onion of irony", or unwrap it more than was intended. Intent itself becomes questionable.
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High levels of irony *over time* herd a large verbal community of mixed/uncertain loyalties and "mere beliefs" back to literal meanings, first principles truths, and a basically non-ironic interpretive stance. Safe literality allows laziness... Then 1st level irony returns :-P
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Can you flesh out what three looks like?
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Often 3rd level irony looks like scornful mimicry. Imagine Alec Baldwin satirically pretending to be "Trump semi-ironically testing out a new phrase". This makes Baldwin look superior to Trump and some of his verbal ploys, even as Baldwin produces those ploys from his own mouth.
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Please post more! I’ve never read someone actually explicitly spell it out like this.
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I probably added more than I should, but... as requested, I have added (made up?) more content in the same theme :-)
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