I think this might be usefully described as my version of conservatism. It does not say you should not leap, but that bringing prudence and experience into the decision process is useful.
There is nothing new about government control of free enterprise. There is nothing new about bread and circuses. Every leftist initiative is in important respects a retrogression, counter-progressivism. It relies on demagoguery, which was a term coined over several thousand years ago. It relies on something for nothing, hand outs, promises to make life easy and happy.
It is not saturnine to insist that these policies have never and cannot work. On the contrary, it is an optimism, founded an ideas which DO work, which DO elevate human consciousness.