society institute unchosen obligations and should be set up in a way that allows us to meet unchosen obligations. to the family, the community, the nation, the people around us. he that we could not escape the past and we shouldn't want to because the past is the only reason why we don't live in savagery. the inheritance we get, the cultural and social and intellectual inheritance is the reason why we can make progress. burke is a certain kind of conservatives. conservatives. is a traditionalist but a forward-looking traditionalist. he believes the present is better than the past, not worse. a lot of traditionalists think the past with some perfect state in one way or another, or in the past we had access to some perfect truth, we don't anymore. we can only reach it by living fully our fathers did. burke thinks things have improved over time and that the future can be better still but only if we sustain the means by which the present has become better than this. it's a way forward. paine a game because he believes fundamentally in the human being as a chooser, a rational chooser, and