I've been studying this kind of thing a lot longer than you have, and through that entire time the term "authoritarian" has been sufficient to define the issue, and considerably more accurately. For every society that abused its own citizens in the name of tradition and "conserving," I can point to at least one that created a living hell in their society in the name of scientific thinking, new ideas, and "radicalism."

The very term "authoritarian conservative" is reframing. And if you want to get down to brass tacks, when we pull this up into the real world, it's the political end of the spectrum you seem to like that seems to be the most obsessed with centralized control of everything around us.

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If you want my contribution to this problem, I've made it a number of times in the past, when I theorized about the primate-linked biological imperatives that make human beings most comfortable in a heirarchy, and how resisting this has been one of the most difficult issues in human society.

This seem to me to be the most effective explanation for why tyrannies seem to pop up almost automatically, while free societies have to continuously battle to stay that way, and libertarian societies have been almost nonexistent, and it doesn't require complex psychology to understand it.

In that context, something new occurred to me a while back about how this need for authority can be diverted into things other than human leaders, and how this might permit a greater level of freedom on an individual scale, and what the role of a certain type of religious belief (as opposed to a certain specific sect) might have in promoting freedom.

The term "No King But Jesus" dates back to the American Revolution. Note the critical difference between this statement and something like "No King But Caesar." You can bring in "King Log" and "King Stork," and the differences between the religions that developed in the West (England) and those that developed in the East. Note how religions like Buddhism, which imply no "heavenly authority," can be used as a control.

There is a difference between the type of religion that emphasizes a largely personal relationship with God versus the type that demands wholesale conversion and sectarian government. Note that this variation sometimes crosses religious boundaries, but that this specific idea is unique to only certain societies.

This may be one way in which a penny can be stuck in the fuse box of primate collectivism.