You are making my point over and over again.
You simply cannot tell me in your own words what conservatism is. You are saying that you are too busy to explain it and to read a bunch of books.
That is what is wrong with most conservatives. They have no idea what it means in simple terms and in order to appear smart and superior they call you stupid and refer you to a bunch of books.
That is why conservatism is failing.
...conservatism is not actually an ideology, but a temperament or attitude that is essentially opposed to ideology: hang on to the good from the past; don’t accept the “new” simply because it sounds good, critique it on the basis of the common experience of mankind; allow the peculiarities that have grown up as a result of history to survive if not flourish, rather than imposing “rational” solutions on everything...; accept that life is tragic...You did not seem to like this, but that is what there is. The suggested readings from the Anglo-American strain of conservatism are pointed to by me and others on the thread because if you don't believe my definition, you can find confirmation of it by reading Kirk, Burke, and Acton, not because the definition I gave is insufficient.