I would like to think that I am a libertarian, but I don’t think it has any relation to ones attitudes. I have always thought that being cheery and generally content is almost an intellectual defect, a mental incapacity to perceive and grasp the grim reality in the world. But then, I am a European… (And we Europeans tend to have pessimism in our genes, since the frolickers (who couldn’t no longer stand us and vice versa) all emigrated – guess where to? Plus being a libertarian in Europe is really depressing.)