When the individual acts to achieve happiness in non-approved ways, the state frequently kills that individual. The answer is that while it might be easier in the short term, such submission causes the individual to experience spiritual death as a nagging, clawing, stifling sense of meaninglessness. The popularity of intoxicants rests largely on the fact that they provide people with a temporary, illusory sense of freedom. The most difficult, yet the most important task for the adult is to break out of the mould imposed by early training. To be really free, one must learn how to live independently of society, because to be dependent on society is to be caught in a game of domination and exploitation.
Philosophy is the start.
A firm grasp of one's principles and of reality unfiltered by brainwashing must be the foundation of one's personal fortress. It is better to pay the price of hell for one's self-will then to gain heaven at the price of the true self. The ground floor of the fortress is knowing how to live off the land, or as a subsistence farmer. The idea is to be able to leave the pipelines of organized society behind and to have a resource base that is separate from society's power structure. These skills, of course, will vary depending on the exact aims of the individual.