But instead they seem to be held back by the kind of conservative who believes technological progress is impossible and that the status quo is all they can aspire to.

Thank you for putting it that way.

I’ve read a lot of definitions of what “conservative” actually means, and mostly i don’t understand these definitions.

In physics, a “conservative field” is one who has a potential and is the gradient field of that potential. In the real world, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Conservatives have no potential, and aren’t any gradient either. They’re just a bunch of dumbasses who refuse to look at things the way they are. Really. Makes me angry.

Sorry that i lashed out like this, i just felt like saying it.