[hammock]

This is why I can't stand lesswrong and the comments of lesswrongers here.

I believe you would love the book "The Romantic Economist" by Richard Bronk which outlines romantic ideals of creativity, entrepreneurship, and other magic as a necessary ingredient of progress that is missing from modern philosophy and science.

[aaimnr]

Well, it's really hard to tell which myth is causing more harm in our culture - myth about rationality or myths carried over from Romanticism. I'm not contrasting rationality with 'romantic' feelings (term that doesn't explain a lot), but rather conceptual with pre-conceptual.