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"Freedom" is the word that social propagandists toss around to pique people's individual interests in a neo-civil rights sense. It is an illusion in this sense as well. It is something to be exchanged, something to be bartered for or sold as a phony inconsideration - and why shouldn't it be? People buy it in this sense just as if it were an essential truth. Just as if they were individuals deserving of this indulgence.
But it's not as though there is some freedom quota out there or some collective sum.
Freedom is something to be taken, something to be earned, by those with that rare sense to seize it for themselves. Is this the same illusion though? Is leadership and an overinflated sense of duty to the self or an autonomous self-interest really just a result of eventual conditioning? Who can say?
It is far easier for people like myself to sit back and let everyone know what freedom isn't. To suggest any truly personal answer as to what freedom actually is would be a great disservice to its very status. That is to say, personal freedom is personal. 
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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