None of us are truly free in this world. We live under law,…

None of us are truly free in this world. We live under law, consequence, appetite, memory, obligation, and the tedious gravity of other people’s opinions.
But I can think. And I do.
That is the distinction so often missed: freedom is not the absence of constraint; it is the refusal to let constraint do one’s thinking.
Many can react. Few can reason. Fewer still can tell the difference.
Written by S. Tominaga