Don't mind me, I'm full of crap

There are three basic attitudes of thought: the rational, the romantic and the traditional. They squabble in everyone's head like a trio of headstrong roommates, constantly ganging up two against one in different combinations.

Romance plus tradition leads to nostalgias, nationalisms, evocations of the lost Golden Age, to which reason says "The emperor has no clothes."

Reason plus romance produces inventions, utopias, science-fiction escape dreams, to which tradition says "That never worked before."

Tradition plus reason spawns bureaucracies, legalisms, classification systems, to which romance says "I'm bored."

Somewhere in the middle is an equilibrium point which is often unstable. Interactions with nature and with other people are usually stabilizing, but in like-minded groups of people the central equilibrium can become more unstable than in most individuals, and they get driven off in one direction or another.

You are now obliged to write a bestselling self-help book based on the above.