Trust the tale. Why, if I say anything that displeases them, the free mob will lynch me, and that's my freedom. Why, I have never been in any country where the individual has such an abject fear of his fellow countrymen. Because, as I say, they are free to lynch the moment he shows he is not one of them .It is never freedom till you find something you really positively want to be . Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away.
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief.
Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.