Why do we feel this need to disect everything

Probably for the same reason people feel the need to complain about people complaining... and then complain about people complaining about people complaining, and so on.

Probably driven by fear, anxeity and desperate need for validation or approval from the group or wider society. Do you agree?

I liked the phrase “performative erudition” the New Yorker article[0] used to describe HN’s social theatre.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

You just got validated. Does that mean you're desperate? or anxious? or even sick in the head?

It is all part of the Human Condition.

Analysis is the most straightforward path to resolving disagreement. Get enough people talking and you'll have disagreement. The immediate result is analysis.

This is not an analysis at all, people online have been misusing the word "ironic" forever. Almost nobody uses it correctly.

It's a way to shut down debate while pretending to use a legitimate debating technique. A tale as old as the internet itself.

I was responding to the question, "why do we feel the need to pick everything apart?", not this other comment. I'd point out your response was an analysis of the use of the term "irony" in online discourse.

That feels like some sort of survivor bias. The majority of people didn't feel that and passed on by without commenting.