Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they are too dumb to appreciate or understand.

I'd be interested in whatever story sparked your post.

However, as an anecdote, a former coworker (and sempai in my dojo) is a libertarian. We had some long discussions about it, some of which I posted on the old TMF. He was/is not dumb. He envisioned a different system instead of the one we have, that would work as well (or better) than our current system. I didn't agree with him, but it was an informative discussion. (I would actually relay questions from TMF folks, like AngelMay who was very interested in his viewpoint.

I think you could accuse him of being a bit naive about how his system could work, but he did have it all thought out. Right down to the building of roads. Granted, he may not have been the typical libertarian.

I actually agreed with him on some of the social issues. Like drug use or prostitution. It's none of my business what people do to their own bodies, as long as they aren't harming anyone else, or being coerced. His ideas on libertarian infrastructure were -IMO- completely unworkable.