A month ago, I answered a question about reconciling the absence of libertarian societies with the supposed superiority of libertarian principles.
I gave an uncharacteristically optimistic response, arguing that the world in many ways has become more free thanks to libertarian policies (or, to be more accurate, a decline in statism).
This led to several follow-up questions, mostly premised on the notion that I must be smoking crack to think government has become less of a burden. My defense would be that the world is more free than it was 40 years ago, but probably less free than it was 10 years ago, so it depends on your benchmark. And I definitely agree that the world is trending toward less freedom (with these charts being a very sobering example).
But the question that caught my eye, and makes for a good follow-up, comes from a reader in Missouri: “Why…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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