Clearly you are a Disney fan. Freedom is to have full control of your time and do whatever you please without calendars or clocks or whatever. Independence is when you don't relay on nothing or no one to achieve the freedom. I will give you an example ... Ekrem İmamoğlu is the 32nd mayor of istanbul, but because he was really popular Erdogan revoke his university diploma so he can't run for President. Does this sheet of paper gives or take away the knowledge of İmamoğlu? Of course not, but he is dependent on it to do his job. Take for example UN or ICC, it is very hard to make a country to follow the law and prosecute criminals - because they are independent and all of them are using the law more like a guideline than an actual enforceable rules. That's why a person has to organize his life that he is independent from as may things as possible. Build a ranch, grow your food, produce your energy, mine your water and prepare to leave the property in 30 minutes if there is a danger you can overcome. Everything else are dependencies on people who are the most unreliable creatures on earth.