Sarcasm Isn’t Cool

The sign of crippling insecurity

I see this post making the rounds: “Sarcasm is insulting stupid people without them realising it”. So what? You know how evil and psychotic that makes you sound? Why would you feel the desperate need to do such a petty, spiteful thing?

There’s a disturbing trend of admiring sarcastic people like Dr House or Donald Trump, or one of those tedious, snarky influencers acting tough behind the safety of the keyboard, as if this needy bravado were praiseworthy. Indeed, such maliciousness is commendable for people impressed by malice.

Sarcasm isn’t a sign of wit; it’s confession of psychopathy.

Witness the vile, uncompassionate psychopathy in this statement: “Sarcasm is insulting stupid people without them realising it”. Observe the evil schadenfreude, taking pleasure in people’s mental afflictions, and rubbing it in too, and then patting oneself on the back for it, applauded by psychopaths aspiring to be as psychotic.

Sarcasm isn’t cool. At best, it’s immaturity, a way for 10-year-olds to explore their social skills and maybe stand up for themselves in their chaotic juvenile microcosm. Sarcasm is a remnant of childhood, a safe way for kids to indirectly throw jabs at each other without the fear of direct confrontation. But such behaviours must stay in insecure pre-adolescence.

Self-respecting adults resorting to sarcasm is not clever, nor honourable. It’s lame and infantile. It’s evil and desperate for impressing impressionable nobodies. Sarcasm will gain you the admiration of suckups without dignity or integrity.

Sarcasm is cowardice. It’s ridiculing and shaming people while maintaining plausible deniability in case they call you out on it.

When people call you out on whether you meant something by your sarcastic remark, you can cowardly say “I was just kidding” to avoid facing up to your behaviour. It’s dastardly, otherwise, you would have made an overt verbal attack, and owned it, rather than cowardly expressing sarcasm under the cover of “a joke”.

And you know that most people won’t call you out on your sarcastic remarks (even if they see through the sarcasm) because then you’ll appeal to “just kidding”, and make it seem like they are the unreasonable ones for misunderstanding you. But you know they understood correctly: you are a coward throwing insults from safety, and you are without empathy for people. You don’t deserve good people around you.

Sarcasm isn’t cool; it’s cowardly. Want to say something? Say it straight up with boldness. Own up to your attacks against people.

Dr House isn’t cool — he’s a pathetic, cowardly psychopath in desperate constant need for meaningless validation from weaklings. In real life, “masters of sarcasm” like him are surrounded by insecure broken souls desperate to cling to a superficial “leader”.

People with integrity stay away from snarky narcissists with a tendency to constantly antagonise everyone, to one-up all the time as if they’re in a schoolyard where childish insecurities manifest.

Sarcasm is your ticket to a filthy entourage full of trash people. Sure, you’ll be popular with the masses, but we see what the masses cheer for. Are you sure you want to be the object of their desire?