Sublime Hypocrisy
The hypocrisy-based community offers perfect freedom from responsibility. It revels in the triumph of the whim. Under its care, consequence is reversed; the innocent are punished, the guilty are protected, the able are ousted, the incompetent are rewarded, the virtuous are cursed and the vicious are blessed. By the power of pride, true is false and false is true, upon command. The hypocrisy-based community transcends veracity to attain impunity. O rapture!
You cannot find a more ancient creed than Hypocrisy; nor one more faithfully practiced by the reputable; nor a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Hypocrisy has the strength of ten because its heart is impure. Hypocrisy destroys virtue in order to save it; for what profit it a man to save his own soul, but lose the world?
What mere saint can rival Hypocrisy? For a saint can only redeem the repentant; but Hypocrisy rewards its worshippers without insisting that they change their ways. Why, then, bother with meddlesome saints? What need for repentance when you have Hypocrisy?
What mere angel can rival Hypocrisy? For an angel is a messenger, serving the truth; but Hypocrisy is its own boss, self-made, telling its own truths, creating its own reality. Hypocrisy is worship of itself, by itself, and for itself. Hypocrisy rushes in where angels fear to tread.
What mere creator can rival Hypocrisy? For a creator offers
possibilities, but Hypocrisy offers impossibilities. It proclaims a luxurious
mirage, spurious by design, free of meaning, ruled by whim, fraudulently
concocted out of Hypocrisy’s own emptiness. What mere creator would dare to
emit such chaos?
Whom then shall I compare
Hypocrisy to? Beyond saint, beyond angel, beyond even creator...
Whom could I possibly compare it to but...
... a certain politician, here unnamed!
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