Saying X=”I’m dropping out of school to join a doomsday cult” in a blatantly ironic way gives you the benefits of implying ‘to unschooled eyes, it would appear that X—don’t be unschooled’ along with ‘I’m sophisticated enough to be aware that certain aspects my decision look as if X’ and ‘I’m confident enough about my decision to make light of this’, before finally concluding ‘but of course, it’s not actually true that X’.
Saying X=”I’m dropping out of school to join a doomsday cult” in a blatantly ironic way gives you the benefits of implying ‘to unschooled eyes, it would appear that X—don’t be unschooled’ along with ‘I’m sophisticated enough to be aware that certain aspects my decision look as if X’ and ‘I’m confident enough about my decision to make light of this’, before finally concluding ‘but of course, it’s not actually true that X’.
Irony signals a lot.