Throughout human history, freedom has remained the most cherished and sought-after pursuit, often valued above life itself. Yet, for most of history, people have remained in chains, and for many, a systematically bartered freedom, ignorance of it, or a comfortable complacency has also held allure. This has been manifested in the evolution and experiences of multiple socio-political settings, struggles, and movements — many liberating, while others ultimately fell into newer, yet tighter shackles. Since equality in freedom and resources requires proportionate freedom for all, along with measures to address restrictions on it, any carefully cultivated disproportion inevitably deepens inequity and resultant slavery.

This way, public freedom acts as a neutraliser to the ruling class's privileged abuse and unjust liberty, which enables them to rule, reign, dictate, plunder and oppress their subjects. In contrast to the visible physical and temporal chains that enslaved people throughout history, those in........

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