Is slavery our best option?

You had better hope so because it may be the only one remaining after our creeping statism completes its assaults on our liberties.  Be careful what you vote for!

Friedrich Hayek in his famous book - the Road to Serfdom - which was  published over 60 years ago, vividly portrayed the erosion of human rights and liberties that inevitably coincides  with the growth of central governments and their powers. This book was the first one to raise alarm bells in my head regarding these risks. I have become a wary observer and student of these trends ever since, and certain questions continue to dog me about our society: 

1. Are we afraid to choose what's best for ourselves and our families? 
2. Has life become so complex that we have lost the confidence to chart our own course in life? 
3. Why do we persistently elect politicians and empower bureaucrats to decide our fate when it is so blatantly clear that their interests do not align with our own?

It frightens me to think that our central governments have been so successful at brainwashing our citizens to the extent that, like the Stepford wives,  they continue to sleepwalk into more and more conditions of slavery.