Ideal future, contemptible present.

[L]iberals understand there to be no limit, no stopping point, to the process of social reform. What has happened and is now happening, however many improvements there might have been, is totally unsatisfactory, and awaits the incipient onset of a gnostic New Age, in which every sordid thing that has come before will be repudiated and destroyed.

Kristor comment on "Small moves away from liberalism are not going to turn around the society as a whole." By Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, 1/12/12.