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.