The secret meaning of "Freedom"

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[...] Everyone does possess his own definition of it. Lanza del Vasto, for his part, defines it as "the ability to draw words and deeds from the inside"1. While the notion of freedom has changed within periods, events and social progress from its first origins to its current diversified interpretations, it has gained a wide range of individual meanings. Indeed, these variations being often considered as cultural or personal acceptances may fully differ from one person to another one depending on cultures and places. [...]

[...] As society got increasingly structured and well-organized, it authorized a slip into the notion's use. Nevertheless, this new meaning has also fully integrated our new modern world which, no more willing to cement any social order anymore, focused on developing individual rights and properties. Therefore, everyone does possess today a personal and proper definition of freedom, mostly dealing with personal and private priorities. For instance, one can be focused on serving one's personal ambitions while another one may aim at serving global interest such as his nation. [...]

[...] Paris. 2 Harper, Douglas (2001-2018). Online Etymology Dictionary. Article "free". [...]

[...] Liberty does not have the same meaning in every country. Hence, we need to mention that a large discrepancy is currently at work into the world dividing it into two distinctive groups, the haves and the have-nots who either loudly claim for their rights or dully hope for them. Therefore, misunderstandings are full between the ones who really and harshly fight for this right and the others who only claim to keep or enlarge their priorities. At that point, we have to mention that freedom as an international right is mostly an idealistic view which let behind true and undeniable aspects of real-ground contexts. [...]

[...] This is probably why the notion's use has deviated so far. Freedom is with no doubt and from the very beginning a concept, which is to say an abstract idea. However, if its first applications were to ensure and defend social cohesion, its moves towards larger and individual views have definitively broadened and complicated the way people use it, opening the way to misuses and excesses. This is where, laws and legislation put the right barriers regulating the applications and in the same time allowing everyone to fully access it. [...]