This post from Logos Publishing claims that we've mistaken sarcasm for irony with a clean dichotomy between the Socratic Irony and Modern Sarcasm.
However, this confusion, in the light of cynical reason looks less like a mistake & more like a symptom.
#sarcasm #irony #Socrates #cynicalreason #Sloterdijk
@Daojoan Had the pleasure of reading this. Especially the library metaphor. It's Borges' Library of Babel but via the anxiety-ridden soul of a millennial with carpal tunnel from doomscrolling.
The diagnosis is correct but the patient isn't ill. They adapted. What you describe isn't a malfunction of consciousness in the digital age. It is consciousness in the digital age. Welcome to the post-critical subject, the homo insincerus of late modernity.
#cynicism
#cynicalreason
Oscar Wilde, improved:
The 21st century's disdain of the ALT-Right is the Joker's cynical smile at hearing his own sick laughter. The 21st century's disdain of woke culture is the Joker's cynical smile at not hearing his own sick laughter.
#aphorism
#joker
#21stcentury
#cynicism
#cynicalreason
#oscarwilde
🇪🇷Götterdämmerung