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Freedom is the absence of barriers. Less freedom is the presence of barriers. Entirely minus-freedom would be the omnipresence of barriers. A barrier is matter or energy or time or space. The more matter, energy, time and space assumes command over the individual, the less freedom that individual has. This is best understood as entrapment since slavery connotes an intention, and entrapment might be considered almost without intention. A person who falls into a bear pit might not have intended to fall into it at all, and the bear pit might not have intended a person to fall upon its stake. Nevertheless, an entrapment has occurred. The person is in the bear pit.
If one wants to understand existence and his unhappiness with it, he must understand entrapment and its mechanisms.
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