Irony Poisoning Quotes

“I know, I know, I know: it’s a defense mechanism, it’s a coping mechanism, capitalism killed all my hopes so I’m entitled to this, I hate my dad, yeah yeah yeah. You certainly are entitled to live this way. The question, my friend, is whether you actually want to live this way. How’s that coping mechanism going for you, hmmm? You coping pretty good? Posting Simpsons memes really defending you against the drudgery and injustice of a broken world? I’m guessing not! How many times a day do you have to evince derision without directly stating it to be impregnable? It seems exhausting. And how fucking old are people going to get, exactly, before they decide it’s beneath their dignity to live their entire lives in sneer quotes?”
― Freddie deBoer

“Tego najbardziej nie lubię u ludzi - zimnej ironii. To bardzo tchórzliwa postawa; wszystko można obśmiać, poniżyć, w nic się nigdy nie zaangażować, z niczym nie poczuć się związanym. Być jak impotent, który sam nigdy nie zażyje rozkoszy, ale zrobi wszystko, by obrzydzić ją innym.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead