Conservatism considered hedonistically

When morality, ethics and political ideas are not working, conservatives can talk in pleasure/pain terms: do you want more pleasure or less? Thinking strictly in strategies of pleasure/pain, conservatism offers more over-all pleasure in the long-term, and progressivism offers more short-term pleasure. It's like diet strategies, there is short-term pleasure in eating sugars and high glycemic carbs, but there is more pleasure overall in staying fit and trim by not eating such things. Emphasizing the pleasure rather then the sacrifice makes good sense, especially for pleasure-seeking people.

Young people and immature cultures tend to think in terms of short-term pleasures, which is why they tend to need guidance regarding where the most long-term pleasure comes from. Young people like to claim that conservative societies are closed and not open to new things, but real conservative societies understand that the new must be brought into the old, gradually, in small doses, so as not to overwhelm and cause more pain than pleasure.

Conservatism offers very hard won wisdom based on the long-term experiences of large groups of people who have seen it all and know what ends up causing more pain and pleasure in the long-term. Progressivism tends not to want to see the long-term, so painful mistakes are made. Someone said that every new generation (and new immigration?) is a revolution which must be understood and synthesized by conservatives, or society will fall apart in continual revolutions.