Letters to the Editor
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I've said this for years:
"Libertarianism isn't an ideology; it is an algorithm."
This was after hearing an LP-head answer a bunch of questions with very little thought evidently involved. (Apologies throughout to European/British readers; by 'libertarian' I mean 'propertarian minarchists', not 'anarchists, likely anarcho-communist'.)
Smart modellers are always on the look-out for places where the model diverges from the modelled; most L.P. types to whom I've pointed out apparent such ask me who am I going to believe, Ayn Rand/von Mises/Hayek or my obviously-Statist eyes.
(Yes, I know that the Objectivists read the L.P. out years ago; their hostility is a token of their similarity.)
And, I hate to mention it because it's a popular disease now (I had it when it was playing tiny clubs and got paid in precisely-measured beer), but I feel compelled to point out that Asperbergers' Syndrome makes it much easier to understand a couple of rules than the broad spectrum of hu-man interactions.