‘Sentimentalism’: A Jeremiad ~ The Imaginative Conservative

‘Sentimentalism’: A Jeremiad ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Sentimentalism is collectivized, but not like other ideologies. It has no party or movement or protests or marches or manifestoes as such. Rather it is a Spirit of our Age, the oxygen we breathe, our environment. This title, only slightly ironic in both its parts, refers neither to any of the moon-June-swoon ditties that were crooned nine decades ago, nor to the doo-wop iterations twenty-five years later. In those the feeling was legitimately pr…