Why isn't the Truth more Mainstream?

[Physiocrat]

@Esuric

I think it’s important to remember that human beings are first and foremost driven and dominated by jealousy and the fear of failure. Such motivations, in the aggregate, dwarf the quest for truth and honest inquiry. This is why society is quick to embrace and propagate the move towards “perfect equality,” where failure, and therefore the consequences of failure, are entirely removed. The asymmetric results of freedom reveal to men that they are not equal, and that some are indeed better than others. This is simply a condition many people are unable to accept. They will blame the entire world before they blame themselves. Mises makes a similar point in The Anti-Capitalist Mentality, where he elucidates the appeal of romanticism which wishes to return to the “good old days” (perpetual famine, strife, war).

In a society based on caste and status, the individual can ascribe adverse fate to conditions beyond his own control. He is a slave because the superhuman powers that determine all becoming had assigned him this rank. It is not his doing, and there is no reason for him to be ashamed of his humbleness. His wife cannot find fault with his station. If she were to tell him: “Why are you not a duke? if you were a duke, I would be a duchess,” he would reply; “If I had been born the son of a duke, I would not have married you, a slave girl, but the daughter of another duke; that you are not a duchess is exclusively your own fault; why were you not more clever in the choice of your parents?” (ACM, pp. 11). Thus, failure is eliminated, and jealousy is minimized.

[Y]

@Esuric

This is why, in my opinion, anarcho-capitalism is an untenable doctrine, which will always be relegated to various philosophers who are bound by the rigid rules of logic, and who refuse to acknowledge (or over-look) the evils of human nature (an assertion substantiated by all of human history). A species which yearns for socialism (at one point 3/4 of the world lived in the miserable and yet relatively equitable condition known as socialism), and which places emotion above reason, can never accept anarcho-capitalism (only 53% of Americans, the richest and most privileged society on earth, say that capitalism is better than socialism). You cannot force freedom upon the masses; they simply don’t want it.

[N]

To quote Le Fevre: “If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one.”

I’m not sure what you are meaning by forcing freedom here.