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And in the West it seems to be the relatively well-to-do these days who are influenced most strongly by Romanticism.

Well of course the ones most strongly governed by Romanticism and all of its irratonality. They are the only ones that can afford it! The rest of us must rely on wit and reason.

However, ironically, many of their policies (e.g., the degradation of the education system) has lead to creating a Romantic underclass of both faux intellectualoids (as the song goes “What do you do with a BA in English”) and an subclass of Romantic untouchables, both of which can be easily maniplulated via emotion — ever seen a proverbial rent-a-mob in full glory?