Post #659950 by tikilongbeach on Wed, Nov 28, 2012 8:32 AM

On 2012-11-28 06:48, White Devil wrote:
But my new peeve, not confined to the holidays by any stretch, is irony. I've seen glimpses of it here in the references to Mannheim Steamroller, but it's time for you under-thirties to stop hiding behind The Irony Curtain. You may think that watching Teletubbies, Scooby-Doo and The Star Wars Christmas Special while rolling your eyes and popping Pez is all ironic and self-conscious, but you're only trying to fool yourself. It's the low culture equivalent of eating your own boogers: enjoying something surreptitiously, in this case under the pretense of not really enjoying it. Of course this all ties back to your teen and pre-teen identity formation, but if you're over thirty and still raging about a style of music that “sucks,” it's time to grow up. Or rather, it's time to a) admit that what you're doing is something you truly enjoy, and b) admit that what other people think about that doesn't matter.

There are people under 30 on Tiki Central? :P