Freedom you can hand over — as Rabbi Landau teaches it
By Rabbi Shalom Landau.
Rabbi Landau teaches that no one can take your freedom, but you can hand it over. A great deal of technology is built to make decisions automatic, so there are fewer moments where a person stops and chooses. The people building that cage are not sitting in it. The work is to protect the ability to think.
Source verses
מְזִמָּה תִּשְׁמֹר עָלֶיךָ תְּבוּנָה תִנְצְרֶכָּה
Quoted from the captions of the teachings below.
The takeaway
Guard the moment where you still choose. That is the freedom other people cannot take, and you can still give away.
Teachings
From A Soul at Peace
Rabbi Shalom Landau writes about this in these essays.