I perceive two fundamental positions  among conservatives: one seems to hate the present;  the other  loves it, because it is still expression of an eternal and expansive timeline. 

Just the second one enables the frame of really getting the sense of the past, because it was also presence and actuality  someday.

I conservative that hates the actual presence of the world without acknowledging the expansion and overwhelming variety of what is good is so bad as a revolutionary nihilist that destroys himself while spucking on the history and tradition over he grew up: both are cowards. 

And courage is an ultimate source of knowledge, isn’t?