Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
The foundation for the most successful political system in the history of human society. A hegemony's hegemony.
What is freedom ? The StateOfNature ? If so the Political Philosophy of John Locke and Hobbe's EthicalTheory points us towards a way out. Showing us that Freedom is not an unqualified good, and is certainly not the human Good.