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Irony and the “Disorders of the Soul”

In 1908 the Russian poet Alexander Blok made a statement which could be taken as an epigraph for our age. “All the most lively and sensitive children of our century,” he wrote, “are stricken by a disease unknown to our doctors and psychiatrists. It is related to the disorders of the soul and might be called ‘irony’.” How true this insight has become by the 1970s probably even Blok could not have imagined. Though no one has put it quite this way, it seems that the central problem of this decade may be the prevalence of the “ironic mood,” a mood which has penetrated and subverted nearly everything, including some of the ideals of the 1960s.