I think it’s a mistake that we’ve been calling our recent period in literature and stuff “The Age of Irony.” Think about years from now, when alien historians from the future read our history books. First of all, let’s be honest, they’ll probably just skim the books. Alien historians from the future are busy guys. And so they’ll be reading about human history, skimming through, and they’ll read about “The Stone Age” and “The Bronze Age,” and they’ll get to “The Age of Irony” and just think, “Oh, this is the period during which things were very much like the metal iron, when everything was all iron-y.”
And I don’t think that’s what is meant by “The Age of Irony.” But I don’t know for sure because I don’t read a lot. But if all these books are just about iron or something, then that’s really stupid. Or maybe the books themselves are made of iron. That’s a little cooler, but still really stupid.
What a dumb period in literature we came up with.
(sigh) I weep for our generation.