I think you're saying that the difference between liberalism and authoritarianism comes down to one of mindset. That's what Jonathan Haidt argues, and I'd agree there's some truth to it.

But what I'm trying to get at here is that there's an underlying pro-civilizational mindset, which is roughly the Promethean one of secular humanism. And I'm suggesting that that mindset counts against liberalism in being opposed to a facet of nature's wildness, namely to the luck factor which liberalism lets in in the distribution of goods. The civilizational mindset is about limiting the impact of nature's absurdity, amorality, and wildness on our affairs. The ultimate end of that mindset would be transhuman godhood or absolute control over natural processes. But that would seem to call for some totalitarianism/authoritarianism, which is what we see in the social structure of corporations. This comes across in the Dune mythos, too.