So what is the point in all of this? Who knows. Perhaps we are living in a dystopian, largely online world where unspoken, interpretive communication like metaphors, satire, sarcasm and irony are slowly dying. A place where subtlety and nuance get quickly lost in a maelstrom of self-important blowhards, judging and shouting and taking things way too literally.

A place where telling a bad joke can easily be taken the wrong way and get you fired from your job.

Or perhaps the joke is on us, and the whole thing is so meta that the pedantic person is themselves satirizing the process of taking things too literally… We will leave it up to you to decide!