Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Super-irony: the trend of the future?

We've had irony, post-irony, post-post-irony and probably neo-irony, post-neo-irony and neo-post-irony as well. However, so far, irony has been little more than some hipster kid wearing a trucker cap or something like that. What will the future hold for this, the most sophisticated of human forms of communication? I take a look in my crystal ball and discover...

Super-irony, irony taken to the X-TREEEME! To the super-ironic of the future, irony is more than just a form of comedy or a way of expressing oneself; it's an extreme sport! When asked to show his friends the safest way from one part of town to another at night, the super-ironic might lead them straight trough the warehouse district! And when inviting a girl home for dinner, the super-ironic tells the lady he will serve health food, only to spike the dish with arsenic!

It might seem that the super-ironic is nothing but an asshole with a contempt for death and that this lifestyle will never reach broad popularity, but as a matter of fact, super-irony is already here! An acquaintance of mine recently observed two men on a subway station. One of them was an arab, and the other of asian origin. The arab wore a full-fledged neo-nazi attire, right down to the shaved head and the swastikas, while the asian brandished a t-shirt with the logo of a well-known white power music band. That's super-irony if there ever was any!

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