A growing number of people are interested in using the State's power to tell others how to live. They are also voting themselves freebies at the expense of others.

It's clear that those who want to be left alone won't be. Is it possible to find freedom in an unfree place?

Doug Casey: Back in 1973, my old friend Harry Browne wrote a really fantastic book called How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, where he dealt with exactly that question.

Remember, that was almost 50 years ago now—a lifetime.

The book was timely, even though the world was much freer then than it is now. We now have vastly more financial and travel controls, however—many new penalties for saying, or even appearing to think, the "wrong" things. You're now monitored in many more ways.

Harry's book is brilliant and actually more important to read now than it was then. His answers to how you find freedom in an unfree world are useful and relevant.

But the fact is that you can run but you can't hide.

That's because the world has been infected by a virus. I don't mean the ridiculous COVID virus. I mean the virus of statism and collectivism.