A Sucker's Hand

This is good - "How Irony is ruining our culture." And it invokes one of my heroes, David Foster Wallace. We are swimming in a culture of irony, sarcasm, cynicism.  We try to outdo ourselves by distancing ourselves from anything real and heartfelt. The real, the authentic, the heartfelt, are considered a sucker's hand. We are afraid to commit to any kind of honesty, it's easier and considered hipper to sit back and sling the sword of irony. Maybe dropping the irony, dropping the sarcasm and cynicism is scary, leaves you naked and defenseless. And maybe it's just such a "rebel move," to drop the mask. To be open. Open-minded, open-hearted. Alive in the moment, armed with nothing but a simple, defenseless honesty. Maybe sometimes it is worth it to play the sap, in art and in life.