Boondocking - living for free, providing all your own utilties and not utilizing camp grounds, etc. Usually on Forest Service, BLM land, etc.

Who is less free? Is the man who takes his instructions and forges his own changes and hammers them to his legs, more or less free than the man who has a gun put to his head and told what to do?

It seems so odd to me that I was born, live, work, pay taxes and contribute to the US society, but if you try to just stop along the road, to stop and stay still for free in you Airstream, then you are doing something that is frowned on.

I don't think there is any sort of conspiracy theory about this, or any other societal reaction. It is just that our society has become a reflection of capitalism rather than a democracy founded upon freedom.

Somewhere along the time line from our founding father's pens until today it became too expensive to the social control functions of our society to deal with you and I if we do anything different than anyone else. We need to all be the same to make it cheap to control us in uniform ways. If you start getting off work and disappearing into the forest for 2 weeks at a time, then others might do so and how would the few (and expensive) forest rangers and BLM employees keep track of what you are doing? This kind of thinking says that you are free only when you are performing as everyone else does. Really we are only free to be like everyone else.

How could we be less free? I read that Americans work more hours in every week than any other country in the world. Why?