We just may be different, now. We've become sentimentalists.
Identity has become more important than logic, and this identity is often times, one way or another, fabricated. It is fabricated through imagined alliances and false sentiments.
Sentimentalism is wishing for an emotion that you don’t really have. It is premeditated. Its motives vary, but it's always an affectation. We deceive ourselves and mistake it for something genuine. These false emotions grow in importance to become a large part of our personal story. They form our identity, become part of us, and because they are fabricated, we get angry when they are questioned.
So, sentimentalism, is the problem. We have all become sentimentalists, but this time, it’s a nasty kind of sentimentalism. It is sentimentalism at its worst.