Change In Conservatism

The “pressure” of progress is long-term and therefore austere in evolving all the way to Godhood in the cosmos, and because it is long-term it needs conservative pressure against the ordinary and the decadent, and not revolutionary change.

Revolution can sweep away the stability needed for rational evolution. Conservatism can prevent some of the suffering that comes with change, or the destruction and great suffering that often comes in revolutions.

We are evolving toward extraordinary people and this is a progress that is sacred, but we are not defining the extraordinary people of Plato's Republic which he thought required an authoritarian system to bring about--- Plato's ideal, like the great religions, was an involuntary not evolutionary ideal.  We retain both in the Twofold Path.  Conservatism comes in other packages for other nations and other people.

 American conservatism avoids authoritarianism with the order of a Republic, at least in the original Constitution, which gives great freedom to the states, and that is good for evolution which thrives on separate varieties, yet it retains a light federalism to protect the states, with such things as economic nationalism.

Ordered Evolution is the term I have used, which is not the same as Russell Kirk's noble Ordered Liberty, which is not speaking of the liberty of sociobiological evolution.