I certainly agree that conservatism equates to status quo and that it cannot ultimately resist the dynamic of change. My point is that beyond the specific manifestations of the particular age, this is a dynamic and tension, between form and energy, that goes to the basis of reality and is only expressed in society as this dichotomy of conservative versus liberal.

It is as the tension between the head and the heart.

I think what you will really find is that what is the problem is the current economic model and if you can separate it from this fundamental dichotomy, it would be much more clarifying. If you really study the history of capitalism, using the financial medium to siphon all value out of the community, it has done its best to ingratiate itself into such social dynamics, to appear as the natural order of things and not just a specific form of parasitism. So by confusing these two issues, you are perpetuating that confusion.

Not that I’m arguing for socialism, per se. Lets say that you can own the most expensive car on the road, but you still don’t own the road. We need to understand that money is as much a public utility as roads. If you need more, like the brain uses more blood than the fingers, you can have it. But the blood is also far more carefully regulated to the brain, than the fingers. You wouldn’t want the brain swelling up, or shrinking down, as fingers mght.