This is a strange mix, because it is aesthethically and technologically modern yet the content of beliefs and values/politics can be unmodern and it can come accross as a shock.
You seem to be assuming that beliefs, values, and politics progress in the same way that technology does, that saying e.g. “Renaissance values” implies a step forward from e.g. “medieval values” in the absence of some catastrophe. Conservatives of this type don’t believe that. That’s why they’re conservative.
Not everybody believes in technological progress also being a step forward, towards something better either. Luddite atittudes exist and not every elderly grandma is approving of young people being on their smartphones all the time. (Interestingly, the great historian Johan Huizinga wrote in The Twilight of The Middle Ages precisely about this: that, apparently, back then there was not much enthusiasm but more of a mood of a things breaking down.)
At any rate, my point is something a bit different. It is closer to fashion than progress. Current technology is fashionable. As an attire. Just like fashionable clothes. It is holding up a sing “I love that it is 2015!”. While the idea of religious conservatism should be more like “I want it to be 1900!” and this is why I don’t understand how can it wear technology as an attire or accept any other current fashions, like, what I have recently heard about, the “beat mass”, doing Catholic Mass as beat music, early rock, like The Beatles. How does this work in people’s minds to combine two things from two very different dates. Why don’t they hate everything modern.
A fashion model is IMO more reasonable, and closer to what I believe, but I don’t see any particular reason for ethical fashions to track closely with aesthetic ones, or for retro taste in one to necessarily align with retro taste in the other.
I’m rather fond of Migration Period knotwork designs, for example, but I’m not about to raid my neighbors for cattle.
But that knotwork is just decoration, icing on the cake.
Aesthethics, for me, is a much more deeper concept—everything you viscerally like, as a terminal value, everything that presses your ’Aww yiss!” buttons.
You seem to be assuming that beliefs, values, and politics progress in the same way that technology does, that saying e.g. “Renaissance values” implies a step forward from e.g. “medieval values” in the absence of some catastrophe. Conservatives of this type don’t believe that. That’s why they’re conservative.
Not everybody believes in technological progress also being a step forward, towards something better either. Luddite atittudes exist and not every elderly grandma is approving of young people being on their smartphones all the time. (Interestingly, the great historian Johan Huizinga wrote in The Twilight of The Middle Ages precisely about this: that, apparently, back then there was not much enthusiasm but more of a mood of a things breaking down.)
At any rate, my point is something a bit different. It is closer to fashion than progress. Current technology is fashionable. As an attire. Just like fashionable clothes. It is holding up a sing “I love that it is 2015!”. While the idea of religious conservatism should be more like “I want it to be 1900!” and this is why I don’t understand how can it wear technology as an attire or accept any other current fashions, like, what I have recently heard about, the “beat mass”, doing Catholic Mass as beat music, early rock, like The Beatles. How does this work in people’s minds to combine two things from two very different dates. Why don’t they hate everything modern.
A fashion model is IMO more reasonable, and closer to what I believe, but I don’t see any particular reason for ethical fashions to track closely with aesthetic ones, or for retro taste in one to necessarily align with retro taste in the other.
I’m rather fond of Migration Period knotwork designs, for example, but I’m not about to raid my neighbors for cattle.
But that knotwork is just decoration, icing on the cake.
Aesthethics, for me, is a much more deeper concept—everything you viscerally like, as a terminal value, everything that presses your ’Aww yiss!” buttons.
Do you find the aesthethics of a Migration Period warrior also appealing? Helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ift85e38H3M