Libertarian capitalism is a disaster of a political philosophy. All the stuff about freedom sounds great. But it's missed some really important aspects of being human: like we need to eat, and that we're intensely social creatures. "Treat everyone like their only value is what they can materially provide for you in trade," is pretty close to a definition of sociopathy, not normal human interaction. "If you don't manage to engage in trade that leaves you with enough to eat--fine, you can starve and die, whatever, just keep your fist away from my nose," is barbaric, not liberating. If you try to argue with a libertarian, you tend very quickly to end up at, "But it is evil to take by force my possessions and the output of my work!" Well...it sounds evil when you phrase it by that. But all the wrongness of the conception of human nature and human condition has to be accepted for that statement to actually seem true.

You can see glimpses of why libertarianism is appealing--it does have some genuinely really good ideas (taken from Enlightenment liberalism). But they have human nature so badly wrong that instead of being a wonderful way to organize human societies, it's an awful one.

So, when you get to someone like Viktor Orban, and you observe that what he says is wildly popular (within a not-too-tiny group of people) a lot of the time, maybe we who generally take a contrary view should be saying: hang on. Are we missing something about human nature that he's tapping into? Maybe in some very important fundamental way we are wrong--not that he is right per se, but that as with Libertarianism there is some important aspect of human nature or the human condition that we are not adequately taking into account. And his addressing that missing need accounts to a large extent for his popularity.

It could be just garden-variety cognitive errors. We like to eat too much sugar; when someone speaks with confidence we like it and we believe them.

But maybe we need deeper reflection, too. Are we missing something?

Maybe the reason the sirens' pull is so strong is that the crew is lonely and uncertain in a strange location, and if they were happy and safe with their families, they would laugh off the song and not give it a second thought.