For innumerable centuries, most of the Western world’s countries were controlled by authoritarian and totalitarian elites; encompassing multitudes of anti-liberty influences. Societies would often be maintained by rulers who proselytised the population with predetermined perspectives of how people should live. Fortuitously, the action of declaring liberty strengthened from the enlightenment era in much of the Western world and it surely succeeded. The 21st century, is indeed at the highest point – well, at least the western world – it has ever been with regard to liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and human rights. This of course brings me to the purpose of this essay: if we have so much freedom to speak aloud through means of protests, writing, the internet, television and music, why do the general public not embrace such liberty of which are forebears fought so deeply?
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