"<p>The most egregious examples of sentimentality are novels and films where characters can be separated into groups of good and evil. The most angelic are the protagonists, with whom the reader cries and laughs, almost merging with them; but if we look closely at these protagonists, they are not so much angels: they are driven by their petty, greedy, sweet desires. The other characters are classified as good and sympathetic or evil and hateful according to whether they support or hinder the protagonists. Most people today look at the world in the way of sentimental novels: those who are guided by their desires and those who support those desires are the good; those who hinder their desires are the bad.<br />Today's average man's knowledge is astonishingly simple-minded. Most men of today see only the surface of you that you present to their likes and wants; they do not look at your inner self; women judge you by whether you amuse and excite them, men by how you fit into their principles, plans, and convictions. Exchanges the good for the attractive, the seductive; no wonder that in private life as well as in public life is mostly led by adventurers. He is perpetually disappointed and disillusioned; he blames all the powers of heaven and earth, the wickedness of others, sometimes even his own folly; only he does not think of looking at his fellow-men not through his needs, but through their selves.</p>"