RE: Why I became a conservative

"Nevertheless he persuaded me that the utopian promises of socialism go hand in hand with a wholly abstract vision of the human mind—a geometrical version of our mental processes which has only the vaguest relation to the thoughts and feelings by which real human beings live. He persuaded me that societies are not and cannot be organized according to a plan or a goal, that there is no direction to history, and no such thing as moral or spiritual progress."

Socialism goes against human nature; that's the reason socialism doesn't work. Even the socialists on this board don't live their personal lives through the prism of socialism; if they did, they would all be living in communes.