" [L]ots of things that look like freedom when you're with other people are just a form of exile when you're alone, and vagrancy might be one of them. But the inside joke about freedom—he would have found out soon enough—is that you're always trading obedience to one thing for obedience to another. Whatever the man was fleeing, it couldn't have been more onerous than living outside in the middle of winter, but he clearly didn't care. "
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![Sebastian Junger quote : [L]ots of things that look like freedom when you're with other people are just a form of exile when you're alone, and vagrancy might be one of them. But the inside joke about freedom—he would have found out soon enough—is that you're always trading obedience to one thing for obedience to another. Whatever the man was fleeing, it couldn't have been more onerous than living outside in the middle of winter, but he clearly didn't care.](/image/2371243.jpg)