Emotions have always ruled over everything else.

In a way emotions have always ruled over everything else. 

Emotions make human beings involve with total intensity and intense totality. What else other than emotions can have a stronger impact.

Emotions have given humanity religion, literature, arts and even science and technologies get emotionally accepted for the  physical comforts and functionally utility that they provide.

Therefore, social systems of administration or social engineering cannot and need not be an exception. Let us be thankful that our democracy is not dictated by violence or royal family edicts or dynasty-based dictatorship. 

Reference to song please note CULTURAL COHESION  ( not to be misinterpreted as isolation) is important for a COMPATIBLE COHABITATION , renaming is RESTORATION OF CIVILIZATION GLORIES of the past wresting from glorifying the colonial looters and invaders( mass murderers), bulldozing is the way to RECLAIM UNAUTHORISED and illegal constructions.

 "We seldom realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but were given to us by our society."-Alan Watts.