The world isn't free from the day you're born, you pay in reaction to being born with a deep sound cry. After a while when you stop you're trying to adjust your eyes and see all around you for the very first time but the light hurts as you were from the darkness for too long. Everything that happens after that is all programming from what other people of a society wants you to be. The walls that are put up to try and guide you down the path that was laid out before you using morality, laws unspoken rules.
Why isn't as important as knowing how because if you can't undo or take control of your own direction then it won't matter in the end. You may be lead down a controlled road of the path of least resistance created for you however once you fight the path and try to change it, it can become better or worse and if you have no one on your side helping you it will be a trail and error sort of thing but you have the changed hope, not the one they programmed you with but the one you are using for your own new path, it will be hard or it will seem so however once you make that change it will become clear why its all worth it.