Evolutionary conservatism: the new synthesized with traditions

In general the speed of conservative change seems best for successful human civilizations. Two historical examples of conservative change affirm the projected changes of theological materialism in religion and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates in politics. In religion the philosophy of St. Thomas synthesized the newly rediscovered Ancient Greek philosophy into Christianity, and in politics the American Revolution grew out of the practical governing experience of both old Britain and new America---the American Revolution was not like the radical French Revolution which tried to overturn everything, and St. Thomas didn't reject Christianity with a superior Greek philosophy.

In the Twofold Path of theological materialism, the God-Within, the Father-Within of the traditional Inward Path is retained but seen as only the first symbolic glimpse of the real Godhood reached through material and supermaterial evolution in the Outward Path. The Outward Path brings the sacred goal of attaining real Godhood in evolution, the God first seen and only mirrored in the Inward Path of the great religions.

In politics an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions could be adapted and established, legally, in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states. That is a practical and conservative solution to kin and ethnic-centered human nature and the diversity of competing racial/ethnic identities, each with its own natural urge to perpetuate itself and establish its own culture. The solution is not to try to jam everyone together in the same territory or to demand a creed of equality or multiculturalism, but to establish ethnostates for all distinctive groups and then protect them from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and money grubbers, with a light federalism.