The British / Anglo-Saxon / Celtic Obsession With Sarcasm
Sarcasm is one of those "weird" methods of interaction with others, that is typically only used by peoples or a culture who live in a perpetual mindset of "defeatism" and "inner discord" by which they do not openly display honest emotions.
In addition, Sarcasm serves as simultaneously both a Coping Mechanism, and a Defense Mechanism, of a defeated person who is a loser.
In hindsight, it is actually a very grave symptom of a society that has deep-seated insecurities and even an inner hatred for their own people, along with unaddressed issues, including social repression.
Could there truly be any better case for a people like this other than those from the British Isles and their descendants wherever they have emigrated to and colonized?
As the saying goes, "Sarcasm is hostility disguised as Humor".
As a German, I can say that only very rarely can Sarcasm ever be truly useful or productive in a conversation, except for rare and exceptional circumstances, which would only happen now and then.
But with the British people, they pretty much LIVE for Sarcasm, and to a point where we Germans view it as inappropriate, inefficient, cringey, and just taken way too far.
The British think using "Sarcasm" makes them clever, witty, funny, intelligent and even edgy.
But the truth is that only the most hollow, superficial, useless and boring people obsessively use Sarcasm.
It used to be believed by some "everyday people" that Sarcastic people were correlated with Intelligence, but the truth is that the majority of those who engage in Sarcasm can only be over slightly below average Intelligence at best, and in most cases, they are just a bottom-feeder who snorts their own belly button lint.
The types of guys who always used sarcasm, from my experience, have always been the "dregs" of society, which make even Gangsters look more useful, loyal or valuable, and that's a pretty sad statement in fact, because thugs and gangsters are total trash.
But those who use Sarcasm are usually lazy, smelly pieces of trash, live off of junk food, playing video games, playing Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, or other type of Roleplaying nonsense with their friends, are into the Star Wars or Star Trek cults, sip soda and drink pizza all day, and they will talk for hours about stupid scenarios of "what if" in a movie scene, and waste time entertaining the most boring, silly nonsense, as an excuse to try to make their lives seem "more eventful" and "interesting" than they really are.
They are the type of guys who when you go to their house, their walls are plastered with Action Figures that are still inside of the packaging for collection, and where you will maybe find one of those "prop-up" Grey Alien figures.
Sarcasm is mostly a waste of time and energy, it rarely has a productive use.
Sarcastic people are generally jerks and assholes, and you will find that such Men, if you ever need to command attention or orders, that these types of Men are always the "loose links" that never have their shit together and are stragglers at everything in life.
Nothing but putrid, self-loathing excrement.
They live so much in their own world, that they can't understand why pretty much nobody but themselves and other losers / failures at life like them finds them amusing, and why the rest of the world finds them annoying.
On the other hand, the rare times that Germans use sarcasm, it's usually for an intended purpose, especially one to "throw" a person off-guard, especially a true enemy or loser and to make them wonder if we were serious or not.
The British just always do it to be a jerk. Because they are jerks, by and large.
Sarcasm is nothing more than hidden aggression; used by insecure, cowardly people like the British scum. Instead of outright attacking someone, they will use sarcasm to disrespect that person; that way they have plausible deniability if the person calls them out for their shitty behavior.
ReplyDelete@Alex, It sure is! A symptom of a people who are afraid to express emotion or anger at something even among their own countrymen, and for the fear of being thought of as "Naugghty".
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ReplyDeleteOne thing I have heard about sarcasm is that women don't understand it. So, I am not so sure that sarcasm is only reserved for low IQ people only.
Clearly, autistic people don't understand it either.
But, your post makes some good points to consider. There is a passive-aggressive way about it that is dishonest.
From watching British "comedy" shows like The Office and The Thick of It, nothing is more unfunny than a bunch of pasty, doughy British mutants showing snark in every single sentence.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason why only the British find it funny, well everyone else simply "doesn't get it".
Indeed, the British are just weird; both their appearance and behavior is bizarre. Their faces don't look right, many of them look deformed...The only British TV series that I like is called 'Believe Nothing', it came out in 2002 and is about secret societies and conspiracies.
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