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JimMorrison said:
The younger generation still struggles with things like sincerity, Badger, please forgive them. 
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sincerity is a construct; it is meaningless save as a method of deluding people into preserving a social hierarchy. thus why sincerity is well developed in confucian ethics. the orient in general has a strong respect for social hierarchy, thus why there is so much emphasis on sincerity that often comes across as pretense to those of the west. but even in western areas with more established social hierarchy, such as the dixiecrat south or amongst the lower class in general (who must be made to respect upper classes despite being exploited by them) there is so much emphasis on things like "firm sincere handshakes." though i imply social hierarchy and sincerity are bad through my rhetoric, they are not necessarily.
i'm authentic because i remain true to my typcial detached, irreverent, and deconstructionist self. thus i tell honey he is being saccharine and this thread's a little too sweet yadda yadda yadda.
"sincerity" in this context would be for me to not act authentic in order to preserve the tone and then the social hierarchy established by honey in the thread.
however, i never questioned honey's authenticity. he wasn't necessarily constructing sincerity in order to accomplish some goal; to place himself in favorable light or suck up. maybe he's a sappy guy. i'm not one to judge.
dominions and its devs are authentic to us as players because they have proven themselves as very fun to play games and dedicated devs.
i never asked dominions to be sincere nor the devs to be sincere devs. it would be meaningless to ask such.
sincerity is meaningless. a construct. an illusion. a delusion. there is no such thing as intrinsic sincerity.