The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
I realize that sometimes I get bothered when I see the world acting like the world. Did you hear what I said? The world is supposed to act like the world, and God tells us that every generation gets more wicked, so why the surprise? Maybe we have some word to swallow ourselves.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.