Beryllium Sphere(tm)'s Journal: Best of Slashdot

ajs, user id 35953, included this though in the comments about hurricane control:

>My rule of thumb is: don't mess with large systems that you depend on for your survival.

He was writing about weather modification but that's also the best one-sentence description I've ever seen of real conservatism. Society is a large system that we depend on for our survival. Actual conservatives are leery of trying to reform it.