/lit/ - Literature

Alright /lit/ I am at a crossroads. I consider myself liberal, probably a left libertarian if we were to do political compass, but I have reached a road block.

I have been reading David Livingston's Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy. Aside from reading this I read a few essays Livingston wrote about Abraham Lincoln from Livingston, which were eye opening to say the least.

Does anyone else who considers themselves liberal also find themselves conflicted between the vague abstractions of the enlightenment and what it was supposed to entail in regards to actual history or moreover human nature?

I guess what I'm saying is, who else here thinks neo-liberalism is a joke?