How much harm is done by the prejudice in favour of good feelings, of affirmation, of sweetness, or the idea of sweetness. This is not however to vindicate bad feelings, but there is enough energy in discontent to provide a justification for it. Inquiry feeds on discontent and is prematurely choked off by accesses of beauty, acceptance, detached compassion and other such feelings which allow you to think well of yourself at little cost. Beauty is a distraction, and if the price for evading it is a certain cynicism then so be it. Sometimes you evince the softness of over-ripe fruit - when squeezed you drown in a sort of undrinkable nectar. Don't be fooled by the conceits of the heart, strive to be more acid, develop a taste for the sharp rebuffs that expose the vacuity of your sentimental illusions.