REALITY IS SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE.

That's a regular theme of mine.

Here is the same theme, as interpreted by The American Conservative's James Pinkerton, with an apothegm for our times.  "In the end, as Emerson would say, people have to grapple with stern right-wing reality—or they won’t be around to do the grappling."

Perhaps his analogy of contemporary life as more in grasshopper mode than ant mode claims too much.  We're better able to live like the carefree grasshopper because of the accumulated efforts of the ants who came before us.