Offhand comment on the Foresty Forest YouTube channel when he is in the Yukon. Talking about the prospectors, that’s what he said.
That hit me on multiple levels.
The first is the obvious. What restrictions were imposed on them by governed the? Far, far fewer than now. You were in Australia and you wanted to make your fortune in the Yukon? You went.
The second is its inverse. What freedom do I have now because of current levels of government? I am free in ways they are not because some base-level survival problems are taken off the table.
The third meaning is the important one. Words are slippery. “Free” has an individual meaning to me that it does not have to, for instance, my children.
Freedom from. Freedom to. Freedom in my head.