Word: ironyã
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...just confusing. Is irony a stance of instinctive mockery where anything with or without a pulse demands a deprecating quip, or is it a smart, potent tool of analysis and detachment that is all the more important in a country’s dark hour? It turns out that irony??the smart kind—and patriotism, in its flag-flying, blood-giving glory, are both resilient. And, comedians claim (and humor website hits corroborate) both humor and national pride fortify a nation against terrifying threats...
...Inside.com) and Andy Borowitz `80 (a regular contributor to the New Yorker and NPR’s Weekend Edition) because in every time of darkness, dark humor comforts where platitudes disgust. The humor magazine The Onion is doing its patriotic duty and, thanks to a mainstream media obsession with irony??s supposed death, future or second coming, the business of funny commentary is a widely captivating trade these days...
...first week, everyone was sort of numb, and that was the ‘death of irony?? phase. But the use of the word irony is sort of incorrect. People were referring to aloof smugness, detachment, and it was hard to be detached from everything that was going on,” Colton says. “The week the attacks happened, we didn’t yet know what was funny. Nothing was really funny.” So the two humorists posted a letter to their readers saying that comedy was postponed, but it would return...
...right] kind of irony is actually essential to civilization. The ability to doubt oneself is a very important capacity. After the end of stupid irony??if we have actually reached the end—it could lead to leaden earnestness. Or it’s possible to move into a more refined ironic sensibility where we do take ourselves and the world’s threats seriously,” he says. “It’s a civilized capacity to laugh at ourselves in small ways even as we go about big things...