In recent years, we have witnessed the evolution of democratic policies that emphasize freedoms. These freedoms have become institutionalized, assuming powers once deemed despotic and oppressive. With the advent of democracies, such freedoms—in order to maintain power—adopted the very roles of those they had previously opposed. Once-discriminated minorities, upon becoming majorities, began to justify their actions through the same attitudes held by their former adversaries. Just as discriminatory as their counterparts, they began to exclude anything perceived as opposition. Naturally, reactions were bound to arise and grow amidst the chaos of manipulated freedoms. From these struggles emerged winners and losers; from oppression, loyalties and betrayals; from equality, the right to dominate the weak and vulnerable; from truth, narratives rooted in illusion; and from chaos, despotism and intolerance. There came a day when truths turned into lies, and lies into truths. Opposing sides reacted to one another, becoming alike in their aim to dominate, control, and manipulate the masses. These sides are no different; they fight for the common good—or so the rhetoric goes. On which side does the planet stand? On the side of the Sun, or on the side of the Moon?

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