Yes, the minds of the populous are twisted and befuddled by so-called intellectuals through the heartless use of sarcasm, facetiousness, and double meaning. To prevent these heinous acts of cruelty from obscuring the nobler goals of society, the government needs to make satire, metaphor, parody, sarcasm and the like illegal, imposing the exclusive use of literal phrasing, in all forms of media, speech and print. It is impossible to number the many times when a caustic remark has been misinterpreted, causing pain and suffering for all involved. Statistics show that sarcasm is on the rise.
Ironic humor is the bloody mace wielded by high-brows and eggheads against the common man.
They use it to make the dumb look dumber, to provide a screen of confusion for them to safely have a good old derisive chuckle behind. With a legal ban on this behavior, the cerebrally oriented would be unable to embarrass ordinary people, and would therefore have to endure them daily. If the use of subtle humor were unlawful, English students would not feel pressured to produce brilliant and scintillating works of literature. Therefore, they would be able to crank out whatever garbage was on the top of their MTV filled minds and hand it in without remorse. Students would have more time to watch Jerry Springer, brains would ossify, and eventually block scheduling would be implemented.