Steady change, not revolution, is typical in biological evolution

Bold thinking is often accompanied by impatience. One of the things that has taken me the longest to learn is that change usually comes in small increments through patient and persistent effort over decades, and big changes can take years.

Radical revolutions usually don't work, they last a very short time and are quickly snuffed out because they were not grounded in patient and persistent effort over decades, and years.

Steady change, not revolution, is typical in biological evolution and is the conservative way to evolve and change; over many centuries we evolved three brains, one evolved upon the other---the reptilian and the mammalian brains were retained, not thrown away, even as we evolved the higher neocortex.

Alan Bullock said originality lay in the realization that effective revolutions, in modern conditions, are carried out with and not against the power of the State: the correct order of events was first to secure access to that power and then begin revolution.

Perhaps the most important belief of the conservatives is that change comes in small increments through patient and persistent effort over decades, and big changes take years.

I seek big changes, such as ethnopluralism of ethnostates in politics, evolutionary realism in art, and theological materialism in religion and philosophy, but I know that revolutions, like war, tend to sweep all gains away, which can slow down evolution, and evolution over time needs the order of tradition and peace, while seeking and keeping the best of the new.

For example, an ethnopluralism of ethnostates could be conservatively and legally established in the United States with our constitutional separation of powers and states, but without a federal defense complete secession from the union could leave the new ethnostates vulnerable to marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers.