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In this case, the sarcasm is intended to confuse, and with some readers it achieves a little more confusion than intended. kamma could have written something l
by Arnt 3y ago
In this case, the sarcasm is intended to confuse, and with some readers it achieves a little more confusion than intended.
kamma could have written something like "the EU should solve <really difficult problems> before concerning itself with <simpler problenm>" but that would have made clear that the really difficult problems are really difficult. The sarcasm is rhetorical device to distract the readers so they won't pay attention to the different levels of difficulty. Handwaving, basically, and the handwaving was a little too strong and distracted some readers too much.
- throwaway11460 3y agoDo you really think so? We know the problems are difficult and won't be fixed as quickly as censored DNS could be deployed. That's why we want attention on the hard problems instead of million small insignificant non-problems.
- Arnt 3y agoBit of a bummer for those of use whose daily work attaining world peace, ending hunger or one of those other big problems. That includes me. You?
- throwaway11460 3y agoNot my daily work, but try to help where I can