For many Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s — members of Generation Y, or Millennials — particularly middle-class Caucasians, irony is the primary mode with which daily life is dealt. One need only dwell in public space, virtual or concrete, to see how pervasive this phenomenon has become. Advertising, politics, fashion, television: almost every category of contemporary reality exhibits this will to irony.
Christy Wompole, "How to Live Without Irony," 2013
"Will to Irony" = Ironiewollen. Not quite as nice as Kunstwollen, but still good.