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The liberation struggles work with the following formula: every repression corresponds to a liberation. First it is necessary to create repression and then offer the release dose. The paradox of all this is that the system forces us to liberate ourselves, which is a stupefying type of coercion because it already makes it difficult to distinguish how much of that desire for liberation is either natural or artificial. In their automatic search for liberation and fulfilment, individuals cease to be free, and therefore, the problem of freedom can no longer even be posed; in a total operability leaded by the imperative of being themselves. The current form of servitude is not the absence of freedom but, on the contrary, an excess of freedom, that «the realm of freedom, from which there is no escaping» (Baudrillard).

One of the political objectives of liberation is to remove all ties that prevent us from total expression, so one of its war objectives is to destroy the unbearable solidity of the human essence. The progressive imperative tells us that the a priori conceptions defining the human being are already outdated, that true identity is gestated in culture as a process of social construction. Furthermore, all those intolerable binaries (beauty/ugliness, man/woman, human/inhuman) must be annihilated in pursuit of equality and democracy. Paradox: since uniformity has triumphed, diversity has never been discussed more. In the democratic and politically correct ecosystem, the defence of free thinking and diversity is directly proportional to the parallel prohibition of thought and discrepancy (which automatically becomes clandestine).