In case anyone asks you.......................

........................................................reading Hegel is hard work.

The perpetually recurring misapprehension of freedom consists in regarding that term only in its formal, subjective sense, abstracted from its essential objects and goals; thus, a constraint put upon impulse, desire, passion (which is only unseemly to the particular individual as such), of caprice and pleasure.  We should on the contrary look upon such limitation as the indispensable proviso of emancipation.  Society and the state are rather the very conditions in which freedom is realized.

-G.W.F Hegel,  Lectures on the Philosophy of History