Few of us have any understanding of the depth and breadth of the deprecation of our actual freedom. It is jarring to conceive of Ford's sense of deprivation of his liberty given how much of the liberty he enjoyed we have lost. As a schoolboy I was accustomed to hunt after school, and taking my hunting rifle to school on the bus and keeping it in my locker so that I could hunt home through the woods after classes.

Today doing that would be impossible, and anyone that tried would be considered to have committed a terrorist act.

We think that nations didn't exist prior to the rise of the state, that there were no borders, but the lands of the Earth have been continually occupied by tribes and nations of peoples for hundreds of thousands of years. There were not institutions, corporations, or states to possess and wield power over people. People themselves wielded their authority. There were no states, but nations were ruled by the people themselves. Despite that we each retained our rights and authority we were not completely free, but we were unimaginably more free than we are today, ruled by inhuman, inhumane, undying, unborn institutions.

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