Irony in Social Process

If I seem to be making lots of discussions about irony, things are certainly as they appear because I am, for I do have a preoccupation with irony. As I have stated before I believe irony is a common subjective phenomenon, if not the basic phenomenon that underlies the process of inquiry by which we determine anything about everything. Humans are if anything good learners, but our initial understandings of things are incredibly naive. Our abilities to expect may become better as we gain experience, but I contend experience creates foreknowledge which is distinct from naive expectation or speculation. However, even with foreknowledge life is still full of ironic surprises that are contrary to expectation.

There are empirical philosophical methods and systems for creating objective knowledge about the world. The scientific method is one such system of empiricism. It can be applied to the material world effectively, but scientific principles applied to society create much irony indeed. In the legal field, laws are codified to create legal objects that are used to deal with criminality in a rational and consistent ways with structured expectations. Criminality is ironic in a sense given effective policing, surveillance, punishments, and prevailing legal objective rationality that to break the law is the opposite of what one would expect. The next system of objective knowledge, psychiatry, underlines the subjective aspect of irony in contrast to psychiatric objectivity, with mental disorder creating behavior that differs from normality which structures expectation.

Those are a few objective systems and examples of irony. There are more, but for the purposes of efficient writing those will suffice for now. Since irony can be a subjective phenomenon as well as a kind of situation or event that debatably occurs outside the mind, I contend there is social process that occurs due to ironic events and the subjective experience of irony. There are many examples of this, but I'll try to provide an interesting example: it is illegal to use marijuana because of supposed harm it causes, but the widespread enforcement of the law creates much more harm. Ironies such as this where naive humans have expectations regarding something create objectivity regarding it, precipitating a situation partly due to the false belief, that creates the opposite of the expectation, effectively producing an argument against the objective truth and creating revolutionary change. That is one example from an immense history of human naivety.