My karma is an accident of history, but that wasn't an attack - if you are not familiar with Romanticism, I suggest you explore it, because it aligns with parent's sentiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
When you said it, what were you intending to carry forward to the parent comment? I don't especially want to read several essays to try and glean what you hypothetically meant by it.
The Romantic movement was all about valuing the "irrational" elements of the human being - religion, tradition, animal instinct (in opposition to the rationalistic Enlightenment wave that preceded it). That's what the parent comment basically went for, so I just pointed it out.
One might take my point of citing the century as a statement on the (lack of) originality of such thought, but tbh I mostly meant as a resource: other people, out there, have already thought and reasoned about those issues for literally hundreds of years at this point, so parent might find some solace (and some critical developments) in their production. This is not restricted to Romantic issues, btw - most of the stuff we pass for original in places like this, are likely to have already been discussed ad nauseam in philosophical circles all the way to the 1970s (at which point academia kinda ran out of stuff to talk about, and started focusing on the meta -- but I digress).
For the future when intending to be a resource, it may be useful to add some context to what you say when you want to be a resource or jumping off point.
I got absolutely none of what you said here from your original comment and perceived you entirely as attacking them or a troll; but in the nearly lowest effort troll way possible, and it even took me a day and 3 messages to get any real content from you.
It’s hard to distinguish well-meaning content from meaningless content nowadays and I know it’s an annoying bit of extra work, but I hope you can see the value in doing a little more to be heard.
I honestly did not expect such unfamiliarity with a key cultural moment of the anglo world. I mean, Romanticism is what gave us Byron, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley (and his wife Mary's "Frankenstein"), the Brontes... This stuff is taught not just in all UK schools, but in pretty much any self-respecting high-school in Western Europe, so I expected I could just remind folks of it. Clearly not.
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