I found it really ironic that the author started with something attention-grabbing about a topic completely unrelated to his point, but then made a series of su

I found it really ironic that the author started with something attention-grabbing about a topic completely unrelated to his point, but then made a series of such mundane statements to begin his own writing that I didn't care enough to go past his first screen. He didn't make me care about why I should make people care.