I've been reading this book called Biohistory by Jim Penmann. It has a sweeping theory of civilization that's based on huuman psychology, in particular the relationship between child-reading practices and adulthood temperament. I feel like I finally can understand conservatives now. I also feel like I can understand why there are so few libertarians and why it is so hard to convince people about it. The book suggests that people are not really thinking rationally about politics and their choices have a lot to do with how they were raised. Unfortunately, it seems that libertarian societies are quite rare because they are so open to new ideas that they quickly tend to lose the practices which gave rise to them in the first place.