Appeal to novelty
Chronological snobbery is a form of appeal to novelty, in which one argues that the only relevant knowledge and practices are those established in the last decades.The dot-com bubble of the early 2000s could easily be interpreted as a sign of the dangers of naïvely embracing new ideas without first viewing them with a critical eye.The appeal to novelty is based on the reasoning that in general people will tend to try to improve the outputs resulting from their efforts.Thus, for example, a company producing a product might be assumed to know about existing flaws and to be seeking to correct them in a future revision.For instance, new clothes are arguably superior to their identical worn out counterparts, as are newly produced body parts to the old in the case of moulting.