The present moment as the culmination of all that has gone before seems (to itself) to have the best understanding of things, it is naturally 'presentist'. This understanding is never accomplished, it is rather always on the verge of being accomplished. Presentism, however, requires a willful ignorance of or denigration of the past, even though the past moments were just as or even more 'presentist' than the present one. Doubtless you have already seen through this temporal parochialism and it is the shame at the foolishness of past presentism that drives its currency in the present present. It requires a tomorrow to maintain its slant view; take that away and the past re-emerges from the shadows and all times are able to claim an equal status. Equal status in relation to what? To the only vital question.