That's because most jokes are lies, and you're single - minded in your pursuit of the truth.
In the end, we are all defined by the choices we make.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.