Surely the most wretched unfreedom of all would be to lose the ability even. [fact]
Surely the most wretched unfreedom of all would be to lose the ability even to conceive of what it would be like to have the freedom we lack, and so dismiss even the aspiration to freedom, as something wicked and dangerous.
Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 465