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Reports on the Death of Irony are Premature
A few days ago I saw a Ford commercial that mortified me.
It was blatantly using the events of September the Eleventh to--get this--sell us more cars.
Apparently some people are amazed at how quickly people's pursuit of trivia has reasserted itself but, when marketoids cheapen every emotion in a ploy to sell us more stuff, it hard not to retreat into irony as self-defense.
Posted by Pace Arko on October 4, 2001 7:48 PM