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Being romantic means being unrealistic. We see this in male-female relations. Girls are more intelligent and realistic. But they are regarded as romantic, but it is really men who are romantic. I am talking about the majority here, or those from a particular section of society, girls deal with men like dealing with lunatics.  You see fully-grown, hairy great men weeping like babies. They cry and go down on bended knee and beg, write letters and light candles. Like lunatics. This is really primitive behavior.  They write letters, stain them up a bit and say that came from their tears. It is hard to find the words to describe such people. A huge great man is left with no more sense than a plank of wood. But people are normally honest and genuine. When you look in someone’s face you want to see their true face, hear their real voice and real words, and learn their true ideas. But we see grown-up men behaving like films from the 1940s. Their movements slow down, they behave differently, their expressions are different, everything about them is artificial. Their tone of voice is artificial. They try to make others feel sorry for them. They walk around in the rain, as it pours down on their heads, just like lunatics.

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For one thing, romanticism is highly amusing. It is both very amusing and also terrible torment for people to pose like stage actors, play roles, hide their true faces, use entirely artificial gestures and facial expressions, and act a part with an artificial language and words, just as if they were on the stage.  It is also very difficult to talk to such a person. I see that a great many people are artificial. A rational person fiercely avoids artificiality. But it is really disturbing to talk to and watch someone who is completely artificial.

Some women also behave in that way toward men, and men behave in an artificial manner toward women. A great big grown-up man will weep like a woman, behave really oddly, and speak sentimental words. And that really annoys and upsets the woman. A woman may engage in artificiality when she sees a man who is wealthy, even though she does not really like him at all, if he is reasonably attractive and has a car. She will say that she is completely smitten by him, that this is the first time such a thing has ever happened to her. And the poor thing will be taken in and shortly made to do all her bidding.

For example, there is a real plant, a violet say, and an artificial violet. The latter is sold and made of plastic. People use artificial plants in a great many places. In other words, they try to imitate the real violet. They try to imitate the real love; to do something concerning love in the same way as a stage actor, but the person involved immediately realizes the true state of affairs, and when you ask her why she loves him, she will say for his car, home or good looks. So there is clearly nothing there resembling love, because it is obvious that when he loses his looks, when something happens to them, she will hate him and immediately leave him. So why bother with all the acting? But that is how they deceive some poor souls. And they believe it all.