Sarcasm is often a response competent people to others’ incompetence in the face of genuine problems they don’t know how to deal with/help with either.
It’s usually an unconscious attempt to keep the problem contained to whoever is facing it.
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One of my fav egs of this was Lennon trolling reporters who asked inspiration/creativity-related questions. The sarcasm was perhaps insulation against being guru'd. Unfortunately not bulletproof
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