[PEN-L:4377] Re: Irony, again

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

alexlocascio@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> "You know what?  As soon as David Letterman hit the airwaves, it was all
> over for irony."
>

Two questions:

What in the world does this Mean, and can it be said without
use of the word irony?

If the word irony is necessary, what in the world is  irony?

Carrol

I really do not understand the meaning of the word "irony" as
used in this post, in Doug's post on Letterman (who I've
never watched), or in Doug's frequent (and never expanded or
examined) claim that irony is a cure for dogmatism. Could
someone please explain the word so I can understand lbo
posts using it. Its use in lbo does not correspond to any
definition of it I've ever seen in the thousands of pages I
have read on it.