Classical vs. Romantic

Classical thinking consists of breaking things down. It deals with looking at a thing and dissecting it into multiple parts. A classical thinker is a thinker who traditionally focuses on the individual parts of a whole, and how those parts help to accomplish the goal of the whole. A romantic thinker will view an object a bit differently. The romantic thinker will look at the surface of an object and take it for what it is and not look a t the object's value past that. For me, how I look at an object really depends on that object. I see a car as a series of parts put together. The wheel connects to the cars axels, the axels turn the car, etc. However, the more complex something gets, the more I want to see it as just that object and nothing else. Perhaps it is my brain just saying "I don't get it!" but when I see something like an iPad, as Benny Schu mentioned, I just want to think "magic thingy that you can touch". I think I consider myself a classical thinker for things I can understand, and a romantic thinker for things I can't.  With the narrator, I agree that "both are valid ways of looking at the world although irreconcilable with each other." You cannot at the same time see one object as both classical and romantic. Once you see an object in terms of that "break down", you cannot simply see it on its surface, that is completely contradictory.