/lit/ - Literature

>Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists great artists. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. The virtuous always triumph? Ward Cleaver is the prototypical fifties father? "Sure." Sarcasm, parody, absurdism and irony are great ways to strip off stuff’s mask and show the unpleasant reality behind it. The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do? Irony’s useful for debunking illusions, but most of the illusion-debunking in the U.S. has now been done and redone. Once everybody knows that equality of opportunity is bunk and Mike Brady’s bunk and Just Say No is bunk, now what do we do? All we seem to want to do is keep ridiculing the stuff. Postmodern irony and cynicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what’s wrong, because they’ll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony’s gone from liberating to enslaving. There’s some great essay somewhere that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who’s come to love his cage.

What is the literary genesis of post post meta irony. Specifically, the schizotypal edgy bs we see on display all on this sight?

I just watched this video and HOLY SHIT
>https://youtu.be/XpH3O6mnZvw
YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK. How do you manage to live on so many levels of irony? Nothing sincere to say, just OWN THE LIBS AND BE A RACIST ASSHOLE BUT HAHA IT'S OKAY, I'M JUST JOKING.
The writer David Foster Wallace WARNED about this shit happening.
>https://youtu.be/Ft4YT80XgHg
THE DIFFERENCE IS, WHEN HE WAS ALIVE IT WAS PEOPLE MOCKING THE RACIST HOMOPHOBIC PATRIARCHAL CULTURE THAT WAS THE WEST UP TO AND EVEN AFTER THE 1960S, WHEREAS YOU GUYS ARE JUST INCELS MOCKING PROGRESS.
YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH IT. I CAN TELL YOU THAT.

Anyone else do this with other writers? I can only hear the voice of my sincere daddy DFW.

>>12927022
What about Wallace?

*calls your sweater "faggy"*