No Humor. No Irony.

Funny. Not funny. 

We were watching a TV show, a really good TV show, and they made a reference to the FBI getting involved in a storyline, and how, somehow, they, the FBI, were awe inspiring and respected and made everything legal and official and by the book, and we realize, now, the irony of that. 

We were also watching a movie recently in which the main characters referenced the US Government and putting an issue before Congress, and we remembered when that meant something. Remember? They’ve only worked a month this year at full salary (and health care benefits) while their constituents don’t have a clue what’s going on or what they voted for or what they’re about to pay in premiums. Oh, the irony.

“Go ahead and laugh. It’s all so very funny,” said Ginger Rogers in Shall We Dance in 1937.  It was a musical. It was an aside. It was said in sadness but led to something brighter. Oh, the irony.

Would that there was a musical solution now, a Fred and Ginger moment, when all of the hurtful, careless, selfish actions could be dissolved and remedied with some respectful partnering and more than a little grace.

That’s not said in irony. That’s said in hope.  

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

— W. Somerset Maugham