The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
G.K.Chesterton
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The Blue Flower 
wonderful quote! I call myself a conservative in that I have high respect for Tradition and, quite frankly, distrust and even hate any and all manifestation of change. However, I also recognize fully that change is always necessary when perfection has not been achieved (as it never has been, and never will be so long as this universe continues). Somehow it is necessary that we learn to be both conservative and progressive, to find a balance point between apparent opposites. If there is one thing we humans have demonstrated conclusively, it is that “either/or” is a formulation that leads to extremes, to lack of balance, and ultimately to disaster.