What If? -irony.

In class we were talking about irony. Irony is an interesting concept. By Wikipedia definition "..from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance, or unintended connection with truth, that goes strikingly beyond the most simple and evident meaning of words or action."

My thinking is this: What if everything we do, every single human or non-human action and thought, in some way ironic? By definition, humanity would either have some sort of incongruity, discordance, or unintentionally hint at Truth. By all of these three facets of the definition, humanity, and our entire existence, is either fundamentally illogical, and also probably completely unaware of Truth.

The first seems to be true. Half of humanity's history doesn't make sense from a single point of view. Easy example, the Holocaust. It makes no sense on the road of progress, especially after the enlightenment period happening, with religion existent especially. Aren't the ideals of religion supposed to stop these sorts of things from occurring? These events do have causes and effects, and reasons behind them, and motivations, if looked at in a different frame.

Strangely though, none of our existence as a species in general is logical. We don't think we are living meaninglessly, we believe in Progress. And for the course of our history we have been Progressing. Progressing towards what? How can you progress without a goal? We don't know what our goal is. Maybe that goal is to figure out why we are here, then hell we're doing the wrong thing.

Assuming the previous paragraph true, than the ironic thing to impose on top of it would be that our lives DON'T have meaning after all, that we spend our lives trying to find something that's not there. That absence of meaning is a Truth.

Now everything being ironic would render everybody and everything naive to the reality to the world. Then what if another layer was also existent? Suppose we were all acutely AWARE of our ironic lives. We would be able to see our asinine existence, but we wouldn't be able to do anything about it. We would know we are living ironic lives, and would ironically continue living them.

Its ironic, because in reading that last paragraph, the reader is now slightly aware, or looking for cues of such irony in their life. Here's the scary part? What if all of the ideas previously written without serious contemplation or reasoning actually all TRUE. There would be no way to escape the irony. We would be living lives, each pitiful life alive, but with no purpose to be alive, and completely aware of it. And nothing could be done about it without being ironic. Suicide would have to be ironic; the individual transcending from an existence of no meaning, to a 'non-existence' of still no meaning. Everyone would still have to (ironically) go on with daily business and continue our Progress inventing atom bombs, and super bombs, and uber bombs, and uber computers, and computer bombs, etc.

And with the feeling of successfully describing the world in a short blog post, I bid you all farewell.