I used to be highly ironic, but I was also highly angry and, in the end, couldn’t tell what I really felt or thought. Irony leads to emotional disconnection and thought confusion, in my case anyway.
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The ironic tend to mock the sincere. Sincerity seems adolescent or childish or unsophisticated. And yet, there’s a lot to say for sincerity, because it’s emotionally clean. Irony is in the realm of the middle class, because they live in highly elaborate social lies.
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A measure of why a blue collar or lumpenproletariat feels angry and frustrated by society (not knowing the rules) is that they are not trained in the elaborate games of irony played by the middle classes. They actually say what they think, a terrible mistake.
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This is why therapy is important for the middle classes. It’s a chance to actually be frank, sincere, and truthful with someone. It is in principle, anyway. Some people are so caught in irony & illusion they just move the illusion into therapy.
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