chronological snobbery

In the short quote Lewis makes on Chronological Snobbery he talks about the thought that anything that is outdated is useless. Basically any sort of fact or practice that is old is not useful or reliable. This ties in with Bulverism extremely well because it is tossing things aside based on inferences that tell nothing of whether it is reliable or not. Just because something is old does not make it unreliable. Last time I checked the Bible is pretty old, but it is still the basis for our lessens in Christianity. If we discredited anything that was old we would never be able to establish scientific law or any sort of "plumb line", so to speak. There would be no standard because as soon as that standard was old it would be tossed out. This too is prevelant in society. People will insist that they have a new way of thinking without even considering that the old may still hold true. They don't disprove them, only discredit them. This is a problem we must be wary of in our everyday lives.