"For the life of me, I can't understand what makes some of them tick."

That cuts both ways.
What seems obvious to one will seem ridiculous to another.

I'm convinced that if you take any social principle to an extreme you'll get bad results. We already tried a much more "free" and unregulated economy than what we've been used to - right up to October 1929. The Communists tried extreme socialism; that failed too. Knowledgeable people predicted both failures but that had no effect.

Hopefully we'll find ways to take what's best from all known systems and employ it when needed. To quote from another system that's occasionally been taken to extremes: "to every thing there is a season".
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