"The word doesn't scare me--limitation"

The old legend about Paradise--that was about us, about right now.  Yes!  Just think about it.  Those two in Paradise, they were offered a choice:  happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness, nothing else.  Those idiots chose freedom.  And then what?  Then for centuries they were homesick for the chains.  That's why the world was so miserable, see?  They missed the chains.  For ages!
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It was him, the wily serpent.  But we gave him a boot to the head!  Crack!  And it was all over:  Paradise was back.  And we're simple and innocent again, like Adam and Eve.  None of these complications about good and evil:  Everything is very simple, childishly simple--Paradise!  The Benefactor, the Machine, the Cube, the Gas Bell, the Guardians:  All those things represent good, all that is sublime, splendid noble, elevated, crystal pure.  Because this is what protects our nonfreedom, which is to say, our happiness.  Here's where the ancients would stand around discussing things, weighing this and that, racking their brains:  Is it ethical, unethical?

(Zamyatin, We, Record 11)

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Freedom means that we're not protected from our own tendency to self-destruction.