From The End of the Modern World by Fr. Stephen Freemen:
Modernity is a rhetorical device. The modern world does not produce wonders or even Apple Phones. Those are the work of technology, something with roots in the ancient world (cf. the Antikythera Mechanism). Modernity is simply the place where the myth was invented — not technology.
And from a 2018 blog post comment (↬John Naughton):
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes (sic) but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.