lol way to miss the point. Hyperbole is a rhetorical device to emphasize a point.
I'm so tired of the internet.
Anyway, yes, let me revise, bicycles are the best invention, of ALL TIME!
Power loom: ushered in capitalist mode of production, alienating us from our labor.
Electrical generator: it's cool I guess.
Steam engine: start of the fetishization of the engineering aesthetic. Awful. Only redeeming quality is that it gave us steam punk fiction 200 years later.
Telegraph: instant communication is way overrated.
Your "hyperbole" was solidly within the fat part of the bell curve of "what people of your bent say unironically". You don't get to say you were just pretending when it's called out for being absurd.
Also, poe's law is very relevant here.
>ower loom: ushered in capitalist mode of production, alienating us from our labor. Electrical generator: it's cool I guess. Steam engine: start of the fetishization of the engineering aesthetic. Awful. Only redeeming quality is that it gave us steam punk fiction 200 years later. Telegraph: instant communication is way overrated.
Once again, it's not whimsical hyperbole when there's no shortage of people saying more or less exactly the same thing unironically.
Fair enough. I am certainly of that bent, and proud (ie. smug if you prefer) about it.
I don't see irony and hyperbole as equivalent though. I am serious that bicycles are an excellent invention, certainly in the context of personal mobility, most certainly contrasted with horrid technology like cars. So unironic in that sense. But certainly hyperbole, as in, "best" invention, that's hard to determine. There's millions of axes on which to judge inventions, can't really put them all on a single line, and find "good, better, best".
> no shortage of people saying more or less exactly the same thing unironically
I was joking, doubling down on the original premise of exaggeration, I thought that was obvious.
I'm so tired of the internet.
Anyway, yes, let me revise, bicycles are the best invention, of ALL TIME!
Power loom: ushered in capitalist mode of production, alienating us from our labor. Electrical generator: it's cool I guess. Steam engine: start of the fetishization of the engineering aesthetic. Awful. Only redeeming quality is that it gave us steam punk fiction 200 years later. Telegraph: instant communication is way overrated.
Sorry for piling on. Long weekend.