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Are we all free men? Sovereignty may seem to be the basis of human rights, but we often enslave ourselves with the yoke of ambition, financial success, or responsibility for the choices we have made. A French philosopher Michel Foucault renowned for his work in psychiatry, punishment, and sexuality, once defined this behavioral phenomenon as Episteme: an orderly 'unconscious' structure based on the production of scientific knowledge at a particular time and place. Foucault argued that history was sequentially edited by posterity and that regulations and social structures of the …