Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Monday, September 27, 2004

Irony for Our Post-Ironic Age

A leading critic of the British National Health Service was killed when a doctor accidentally prescribed her a massive overdose of iron.

Irony would be if the doctor had been a private doctor she hired outside the NHS.

This is meta-irony, irony for our post-ironic age: an occurrence that's the mirror opposite of a perfectly ironic event. Something that's too perfectly un-ironic. Dog-bites-man to irony's man-bites-dog. Go with me here people.