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The, As A Rule, Self-ironical Entwistle Talks about Self-irony

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Does self-irony mean the same as being a little funny, a little odd or a having a twinkle in one’s eye?

“No. Self-irony is the opposite of self-importance.”

Is it self-important to be too concerned with your own dignity, your own limits, your own creativity and your own freedom?

“Yes. That would be self-importance.”

What if you are immature or have a weak identity and walk around looking sour, rude and impolite. Wouldn’t that be sufficient reasons for you to be self-important?

“I do not know.”

Do you not know?

“No.”

In this case, the interview comes to an end.

“OK.”

What is freedom?

“A person should never be confronted with his or her immense freedom.”

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Morten Hjerl-Hansen (born 15. June 1973) is a danish blogger born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. I lived for the first 19 years of my life in a liberal-minded, literary and academic home in North Zealand. My mother is a psychiatrist and my father is a chemical engineer. I have two siblings. Throughout childhood, "I invented near-useless things almost every day" and told my siblings "fairy tales" where they themselves were the protagonists. In 1986, I visited Houston in the United States with my family on a stay that spanned three and a half months. I started programming in 1986 and made approx. 20 major projects until I "lost the ability" in 2018. Student from N. Zahles High School 1992. Ry College 1993. Read theology 1993-1994 in Aarhus. Read philosophy 1995-2000 in Linköping, Lund and Copenhagen. Worked as Java programmer 2000 and 2001. Participated in numerous poetry readings in Copenhagen 2002-2007. Got a psychosis in 2007 "which took about 10 years to recover". Married to Else Andersen in 2010 and resides in Asnaes, Denmark. Father in 2014. Has written The Other Newspaper daily in Danish and English daily since 2013.