Idk about that considering how much more we're enslaved to our passions
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True but there's a subtle difference in the mechanism maybe, that addicted people give up their freedom willingly because they see no use for it
Perhaps others have given up their physical freedom willingly to governments because they saw no use for it. There's an Arab proverb, "better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of anarchy."
That's kind of a depressing proverb ngl
Maybe Mad Max is worse than depicted