People aren’t as free as we think, nor should we be as free as we would like.
This is not a welcome idea in today’s world, or in any world, for that matter. Autonomy and freedom in all areas, the right to choose among many options or to create an option that doesn’t yet exist is taken as the hallmark of human progress and evolution.
But for such an ideal to truly work would require a fundamental transformation of our nature.
Consider a fish.