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 | | Maybe it would be useful, for the purpose of clarity, to refer to sincerity in two modes, the first being involuntary sincerity�sincerity with a small s, i.e., the warmth one feels when looking at sleeping babies, holding purring kittens, laughing, crying or exposing any unmediated emotion. |
 | | The second mode, big S Sincerity, is a communicative expression produced through culture that is specifically performed with both an audience and a positive reception in mind, i.e., banjo-playing, Spoken Word, Hello Kitty items and so on. |
 | | Amidst fakery, the desire for Sincerity has taken on urgency in terms of artmaking in the past decade, perhaps in response to the glut of eighties and nineties postmodern irony. |
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