The is a kind of inverted or infernal sublime in the sentimental (as the opposite of naive) admission of heteronomy, the often very skillful and complex realisation of how deeply you, your thoughts and feelings are determined by outside factors. The insistence on this, the crushing of every naive objection is an assertion of power and hence of freedom by its ever more perfect denial. In this case the sense of still standing in the face of all that would crush you, by allying in spirit with every external force, has nothing ennobling about it.