Sincerity becomes impossible in a world that is ruled by a falsity that it thinks it is clever enough to detect. Propaganda is constantly held up to contempt, but in contemning it we come to love it after all. In the end we will not be able to get along without it. This duplicity is one of the great characteristics of a state of sin, in which a person is held captive by the love for what he knows he ought to hate.
