It’s a big difference being restricted from doing what “you” want and not being so. Everybody should be allowed to get experience through their own preferences and not through imposed preferences. Of course, difficulties emerge in society that makes freedom an utopia. Some people want to know how it feels living in a society without unequal distribution of material wealth and power, while others don’t. So, today freedom is restricted to a few in society, usually to those with power. Of course, they do have their desires, but who defines them and how much they have arrived to those desires solely by themselves is another thing of course. As it is, most people think they have desires, but there is nothing that proves that their “desires” truly are so. Winning a lot of money is not a desire, and feeling you expect to get from it is but a temporary one. According to many, it turns out that earning money really isn’t the big deal after all, but to achieve inner peace, which requires everything else than living in the material world and all the imaginations connected with it. To face death peacefully, in other words.
Desire is a very ambigous term. It’s very doubtful whether there really is such a thing and not just something invented. Because desire always imply the wish for fulfilling a goal, but it turns out that most “goals” are only things invented within the system. The true goals are logically beyond any system and thus something that can never be characterised completely/truly. It’s the silent knowledge we all possess of something mysterious we have to come to terms with that really is the only essential in life and lies behind all our efforts. In this perspective, most “goals” are only imaginary roads that lead nowhere and only make time pass.
All in all, there nevertheless is an essential difference between living in as little restricting conditions as possible and not doing so, despite the fact that no one really can get hold of what’s within and restrict it but only distract your mind from what’s essential.