Poignant wry humor, poignant because it seems to be very true. But why is this so? The truth is that the Good is attractive, and so human beings want to be good. But why not too good, and not all the time? Evil, the Un-good, is ugly in itself, so human beings never, in their right minds anyway, desire it directly. The explanation is that the Evil One insinuates the lie that seeking the Good is hard or tedious or uncool, or odious in some other way, and that a little vacation would be pleasant. Unfortunately, the tendency of sin is to increase, and so the common course of things is for one who gives in to sin to become more and more sinful, less and less good. And indeed we see that this is very often the case. It is a sign of God's grace that humanity did not destroy itself long ago.
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