The GENERAL CONTEXT of such use is:
irredentism: A temperamental postulate and political bias insinuating a desire for a societal return to "another day and another age", in examination of current societal dynamics and functionality, as attributed to those who are, evidentiarily, "blind to common sense", who cannot seemingly see the value and redemptive attributes inherently extant and justified, as optimistic "faith", in the moralization of history (see the moralization of history) by the sheer effects of technological progress and economic growth as a societal substitute for societal control by 'authoritarian' modes of imposition and crude techniques of coercion, ala the days of 'nobility'.