Ethics

Pat's Immunity to Irony and Dissonance

By Ed Brayton

Yes, this post is about Pat. Don't read it if you're tired of reading about him. But I'm writing it because I think this is a poster child example of a common attribute in this country, where some people seem to be entirely immune to irony or cognitive dissonance. Pat has displayed this trait in many obvious ways already, like claiming he was going to have me thrown in jail for stalking merely for criticizing something he wrote publicly and then posting what he thought was my address on his blog and inviting people to pay me a visit (and then, in a rarely seen triple irony backflip, accusing someone on another site who posted his address of stalking him).

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 26, 2009 (boomark / email).