Irony's tendency to reference itself in skeumorphic form from one culturally-manifestive medium to the next. Irony as a self-referencing (meta-meta - - > self-actualized) entity. Culturally-manifestive mediums include literary-->
cinematic - - >
existential - - > aesthetic - - > conscious.
Conscious irony or
irony's ability to self - reference from one medium to the next implies that it is self-sentient; that consciousness is an
attribute of irony rather than irony being an attribute of consciousness