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The notion that human society can somehow do without the interference of centralized information and control with it's potential for being a resource of corrupt authoritarianism is a yearning of many political idealists. As the above schema suggests (which I've cribbed from Wiki) "libertarianism" is an ideal which crosses the left-right fault-line and crops up among both left and right political agitators. I'm not quite sure why this common hankering exists; at a guess it's something do with those instincts left-over from the time of those folksy communal freedoms which were the lot of hunter-gatherer communities. It is very tempting to think of hunter-gatherer fireside life, a life which knew no ramifying cloud capp'd towers of information & control.
At this juncture I can't help thinking of the relevance and meaningfulness of the Biblical Edenic story where it seems our erring fruit gathering ancestors were cast out from their original idyllic garden environment before they were fully ready to start populating & subduing the chaotic earth. (See Gen 1:28). As it was to turn out, humanity then faced the double problem of not only subduing the earth but also subduing its own nature.
Adam and Eve's post-Edenic sexual union produced the agriculturalists Cain and Abel. Cain was an arable farmer and Abel a pastoralist. After murdering Abel Cain was driven from his farm fearing vengeance for Abel's murder. But in spite of his crime God promised his protection and Cain went onto to build a city (Genesis 4:17 ). Building a city would imply that he was exploiting not only an efficient agricultural base but also had available the techniques of centralized information & control required (such as writing) for the successful organization and cooperation of large of concentrations of population that city life demands.
Although from Genesis 4 we see vengeance and killing as the post-Edenic themes of the human predicament holding back Project Earth, nevertheless at that time progress in populating and the subduing the earth was being made: a city was built, and tools made of bronze and iron. Above all, writing must have been invented to facilitate centralized information and control.
And yet the inevitable seedy sleaziness of urban life may have given rise to a yearning for a return to an idealized Edenic idyll before the advent of that signature evidence of post Edenic life; the city, its government and its appetite for information & control. But these are not the core problem of the East of Eden phenomenon; they are only a correlates. The heart of the problem is Sin, the word with the "I" in the middle (See the Book of Romans).
Mistaking the correlates with the core problems of the human predicament libertarianism's big mistake as we can see in the signature evidences of right-leaning libertarianism as follows....
* A tendency toward deep state conspiracy theorism.
* Climate science skepticism - Climate science may be seen as a deep state disinformation campaign to excuse enhancing centralised information and control.
* Pandemic lockdowns; again these may be seen as part of a deep state hoax to excuse increasing centralized control.
* Belief in small government if not no government at all, sometimes to the point of anarchy.
* Belief in an highly unregulated free market; an oxymoron if the ever was one! A market can't function with out standardization and agreement of standards, not to mention curbing the exploitation of workers and the fueling of Marxist unrest.
* Skepticism toward the institutions of society; the media, academia, education, politicians, state health institutions, big business, the police.
* Non-acknowledgement of the paradoxes of free-speech.
Some of the above are also very much part of leftwing libertarianism too, in particular suspicion of the media, academia, large corporations, politicians and government in general - all of which are the trappings of city life, but to the leftist they will be seen as conniving with the owners of the means of production who are exploiting the working class.
