“I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.” TwoWholeStoriesShowsCultureWinningPhotographTinyIronyPocketsVietnamClashPhilipVietnameseInvadersGisTwo Cultures Author:John Pilger
“One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.” MomentsCultureFailingMovementWesternToleranceIronyCrushRivalsWestern Culture Book:The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism Source: The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
“There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.” ThinkingWorldWayImportantCultureLostRoomsEmotionToolsProtectionContemporaryIronyIronicSeriousnessStraightforwardEarnestness Author:John Green
“In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.” Has BeensEndsGovernmentCultureIntegrityResponsibleSacredDeterminedAbsenceIronyNativeNative AmericanAmerican CultureNative American Culture Book:Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming Source: Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
“Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.” FeelingsCultureEasyCuttingSafeStructureIronyScareFogPietyOrthodoxyThoughts And FeelingsNelsonMaggieFerocity Author:Ben Lerner