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 i...
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