Doug Coupland quotes G.K. Chesterson in his bio of Marshall McLuhan (great read, by the way).
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.
Not so true in the States, though, where ‘Conservatism’ was hijacked by the populist Right.
