Is Liberalism A Mental Illness ?

And so the heading goes in an article....
Pondering on this I realize that while the
western world is craving like addicts for
a free world, freedom to own guns, to vote,
to live as they please- they are still prisoners
within a system that is ruled by those of high
intelligence that keeps entrapped even as
it dangles the carrot.
I realize that freedom is to be obtained
through imposed discipline and structure
through abstinence - now this does not seem
like freedom at all. True freedom is that of
soul consciousness. To attain that one has to
let go of physical consciousness through
self imposed abstinence and a simple, frugal
life. It would seem that this is not freedom at all.