The dominant system today is built on analysis. And it’s worth remembering that the root meaning of analysis is the reduction of things into parts.
Holistic thinking, in contrast, is always inherently Romantic. You can also call this visionary thinking.
Ted Gioia’s Substack is consistently good. Sometimes it’s great, as in 25 Propositions about the New Romanticism, which he made a public post.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in a long while - an unironic analysis of our tendency to analyze everything to death (“we murder to dissect”).
Iain McGilchrist would approve.