Today, we have made personal freedom our catchcry. We have become dedicated to the worship of choice . It is like a new religion. Our choices are so sacred we pursue them unswervingly. But there is a problem.
Genuine freedom is a slippery customer.
A very slippery customer indeed. If we are not careful, we might end up with a phony substitute. We need to pin it down precisely. Many people confuse freedom with escapism, but it is not that. Or they define freedom as the absence of restraints on what they can do or say, but it cannot be that either.