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[Minyatur]

True enough.  I guess I just have a hard time wrapping my head around why someone would want to think they were enslaved.

It offers a form of comfort zone where you do not feel as responsible of yourself as if you firmly believed you have total freedom and had to acknowledge as desired multiple aspects of your reality.

Example:
For one who is utterly disgusted by the actual state of the Earth, it is far easier to blame external entities for ruining what you think could have been a better experience than realize you might be here because this place is the way you personally need it to be, which would make you a significator of why the Earth is as it is and that a "better" environment simply isn't what you truly desire or need for yourself.

Acknowledging your freedom in being here would allow you to face the aspects of yourself that made you resonant with this particular place, while seeing yourself as enslaved in a most disgusting system allows you to avoid distilling these aspects for a time until you do.