Freedom wasn't what I thought it was. I used to think it was being able to do what you want, when you want. Nope, not at all. I'm seeing more and more freedom really means breaking out of the endless loops of "regular life", work, pay bills, pay taxes, work some more, pay more bills, pay more taxes. Depending on others isn't a sign of weakness, but when done unconsciously like today. Few people cook their own food, never mind growing it.
Take someones smart phone away and they run around not knowing what to do. And depending on the grid of power for everything they have. Computer, cell phone, microwave, lights. I'm not proposing we get rid of all this, but if they were taken away today. Like if North Korea dropped their Super EMP bomb from one of their two "communication" satellites and took out the nation power grid, would you be ready to live without these things? Most of us are not free, instead of using the system, we are slaves to it.