Thoburn - cramped creativity VS understandings of freedom

"The difference between cramped creativity and liberal understandings of freedom and creation is expressed well by Kafka (1978) in A Report to an Academy, a short story which displays much of the minor sensibility. Here, an ape ‘pinned down’ in a cage on a ship such that he has no possibility for movement chooses to mimic his human captors and create a certain human-becoming to effect a way out of his predicament. It is the very condition of being cramped that leads to, or compels, his innovative change, but not because he desires abstract freedom, or indeed anything particular about being human. Whilst ‘freedom’ appears to have some value, it is an ambiguous form (as he puts it, ‘all too often men are betrayed by the word freedom’, and in this case only offered a suicidal flight overboard.
Instead, the ape simply seeks a ‘way out’ of his particular condition, for which
the human presents a boundary and a possibility."

From Deleuze, Marx and Politics.