A Little Irony for You
By Patricia Lefave, Monophrenic
This one is for the pair of females (university students I think) who sat discussing me on the bus, two seats behind me and stated:
“I doubt if she even knows what irony is.”
Irony: American Heritage Dictionary definition: “Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.”
I will give you a simple example of this, using the experience of you as my concrete example of what actually occurs.
You are but two of thousands of people who are behaving the same way and many of you actually SAY that above statement in my presence as well. Like them, you act out everything you hear, or have heard, right in my presence, because you believe that I must be too stupid, or too crazy to understand what is going on anyway. Some of you also do it to 'punish' me for my complaints.
Are YOU too stupid to know that I can hear you from two feet away? Or are you just crazy? Here is the incongruity that makes it ironic in your case which I will spell out for you, which is also ironic:
The fact that you don't know you are being ironic when you suggest that I (and not you) do not know what irony is, is in itself ironic!
What is expected you see, is for university students to be more aware of self and others since they have higher I.Q.'s than many of those others. What I often get though, as in this case, is a performance of stupidity projected onto me, as a kind of delusional self defence by the students doing it. The people like you who do this then routinely fail to make the obvious connection between what they do, and my simple statement that they do it.
Many psychiatrized people come to the conclusion that people like you must be pretending to be stupid because there is no way you could REALLY BE that stupid.
This then becomes a delusional reversal times two; for awhile anyway.
Most of those presumed to be stupid and/or crazy and often psychiatrized for it, come out of it and face the sickening reality around them. However, most of you never understand what is perfectly obvious and right in front of your own nose. Instead, you defend against it, and remain stupid and delusional while always considering yourselves to be the smart and sane ones. THAT my dears is what is ironic.
The ones with the high I.Q.'s, who are expected to be the most aware and to understand the perfectly obvious, are the ones who have no idea what it all means. THAT is the incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs, of which very few, in my experience ever become aware.