Chapter 1: Defining Freedom

From "Don't Be Controlled" by Josh Benadum

Billboards and grocery stores.

Reflecting on what it was like moving back to the United States, these are the first two things that come to mind.

Massive chain stores requiring a map to navigate. Sedan-sized, flashing restaurant signs trying to out-sizzle each other for the right to provide my next meal. Fresh off a plane at eighteen, I was disoriented an…