I'm so tired of irony. Why does it feel like nobody wants to be earnest anymore?

I'm so tired of irony. Why does it feel like nobody wants to be earnest anymore?

Postmodernism was basically a mistake. New Sincerity is too haphazard and disorganized to pronounce itself a serious literary movement. We should return to Modernism

People want to be more and more like TV characters.
Before people wanted to be like theyre parents, maybe a writer or a historical figure, now they want to be Sheldon Cooper and that cute anime guy who makes cool faces.
Not lit related but the absence of good role models in literature is a factor too. Now youngsters look up to THG chick or the Divergent chick or the "insert YA FANFIC" chick. T'same eastern values are droping dead. Is like Rome in it's final days, decay of everything the society was built on.

More like Romanticism.

To be honest, irony is the only thing that keeps me away from suicide.

Being earnest is pathetic and cringeworthy to read.

already have metamodernism

kys

Romanticism was and still is a permanent concern for mankind. We need to make a distinction between romance and "Romanticism" (meaning all the literary tropes of the early 19th century writers). A great writer in any era will be full of romance; but Romanticism is a thing dead and gone, and perhaps not to return.

Currently reading Mrs. Dalloway.
it's so damn good.

A neo-romanticist rebellion would be nice in a sciencephile computer era though.