Originally Posted by Hornet

No matter how useful these musings are, and I am not saying that you are not without those that have the same thesis as yourself and are famous for their articulation of it, there is no manacle around my leg. Let's not lose track of the real or of the useful. Whatever shackles of hegemony may be on us we can use to our own end. Moreover, freedom is just another construction of liberal ideology which is pervasive in our language. It is both easy and juvenile to say that we are all just slaves merely because our experience of the world at large becomes more and more kafkan. It is not that we are slaves or that we lack freedom, not to say that there aren't those who are or were quantifiably enslaved, but just that we are part of a complex world with obligations, desires needs, threats and responsibilities.
It can be scary, and to retreat to the stance of "we have lost our freedom, we are slaves" is a path that people take regularly, but I see it as only impairing us even further. Let's not forget, in the most immediate sense, what slavery and freedom are and that we can change those things, we can fight slavery and fight for freedom.