I suppose, if men value freedom over security, comforts, luxuries, and amenities of civilization, then they can live free as the beasts of the wild. But, in order to provide for stable, orderly society, in which men can have baubles of civilization, men are required to kneel before their benefactor be He God or Caesar.
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I have lived in the forest, and may best approximate beasts of the field of folks you engage with.
I recently did so, yet was online. I paid money for the service, but kneeled for no one.
As technology increasingly empowers individuals such that they can obviate institutions and organizations, such as media corporations, and enforcers of traffic laws, for example, having any access to them at all, as I did, freedom will burgeon, and oppressors will gnash their teeth in futility.
There is a leading edge of revolutionary tech that is available to the well-heeled and financially encumbered alone, but that soon is so inexpensive that it is trivial for commoners to acquire.
Tech is making oppression obsolete, even though it now appears to be inescapable.
Good!
It is remarkable that you have become less dependent on services of organized, social institutions. For many, the so-called "99%," such self-discipline, responsibility, and command over their lives belongs in fantasy, next to Tolkien's Hobbit. While I do not doubt your success in subduing your passions and appetites to be aligned with your life purpose and responsibilities, the ignorant peasants either have little apptitude or desire to achieve self-actualization. Take away institutional social, legal, and religious control, these free men will be eating each other within a week. For many, slavery is a step up from what they would have done to themselves, if allowed to be free.
I am sad that I cannot disagree with you on a single point you have made in this comment, except to quibble over numbers.
I certainly hope more than 1% of people is capable of freedom.