And the conservative wants the wilderness to rule within human societies; that is, she’s opposed to any existential, Promethean, or Faustian revolt against the wilderness in the name of some progressive ideal.

One of the most interesting things I learned in law school was why Sunday Blue Laws were constitutional. For sure, religious zealots wanted there to be blue laws because the Lord had commanded them not to work on the Sabbath. But to make Sunday a secular holiday for that reason would violate the Establishment clause of our constitution. Still, the blue laws were upheld.

Why? Because on a purely secular basis, a society may agree that there will be one day a week when commercial activity is forbidden in order that competitors - and their employees -can afford to rest without losing a step to the competition. (Yep, it's our old friend game theory here to explain yet one more human phenomenon.) Having decided that there would be a uniform day off, the most logical choice of that day was the one on which most Americans wanted to attend religious services, viz., Sunday. One can rant all one wants about the zealots, but the laws made sense even without them.

I offer this bit of analysis as an analogy to your arguments against conservatism. YOUR conservatives are the religious zealots who think God ordered us to embrace classic liberalism. But put those conservatives aside, and you still find people who believe in the Law of Oligarchy because it just works better than anything else ever tried.

I believe you have made what is essentially an ad hominem argument, which, of course, accomplishes nothing.