Among the more pathetic features of conservatism is the instinctual (but inconsistent and intermittent) insistence that everything was better in the past: no, universities in the 1940s were not better than they are today —and university-educated people were not more enlightened in the 1960s than they are today —and the intellectual and moral caliber of the professors was not better in those decades than today. In related news: the moral character of organized crime has not much changed.
The context for this conversation is not really necessary to know, but I made two very short videos about "the Jason Arday scandal",
(1) Jason Arday did nothing wrong. https://youtube.com/shorts/7auNd9ftVyM
(2) Jason Arday: Steroids for the Soul. https://youtube.com/shorts/lDmnpFgEi2g
I would remind you: historical nihilism has a great deal to do with the examination of history, with the hypothesis and conclusion that there is nothing to be believed in. The things conservatives believe in are utterly laughable to me —both presently and historically.
