What's so 'free' about Chaos?
Chaos is an ideology based around people having the right to do whatever you can make happen.
Which means you have to be strong.
Which means you have to eat well so you can build your body up. You have to have lots of time to train your body. You have to have time to rest and heal so that the physical stress of that training doesn't cause permanent damage. Or you can train in magic. It's unclear what that actually involves, but it is presumably equally as resource-intensive and involved.
So you have to be on top, because only the people on top get that kind of luxury.
At first Chaos will be a free-for-all. Eventually, the people who are already strong will come out on top. That's only going to be a small handful of people! Most people will be slaves to their new rulers.
And the longer they rule, the harder it's going to be to depose them. The subjects are likely to be badly fed and worked to exhaustion. THe rulers will have the leisure time and nutrition to get stronger still.
The subjects don't have freedom. They don't have the strength to take it unless their ruler actively fucks up. Hard times, contrary to the common wisdom, rarely make strong men - mostly hard times make broken, bent, twisted, weak men.
The rulers don't have freedom. There are things they have to do to remain 'free.' They can't choose to pursue anything other than strength. They can't waste time painting or philosophizing or building model trains or doing artistic bodybuilding or anything that doesn't translate into strength, because if they get too weak, their subjects will rise up or another tyrant will conquer them.
And even if that revolution happens... is anybody any more free? There are, likely, about the same number of rulers now. And about the same number of subjects. Some small handful of people, people who have the potential to be strong by some accident of birth, will take some other handful of people's freedom. Everyone else stays enslaved.
Chaos is about freedom, as long as you don't think 99% of people count. Under Chaos, you can do whatever you want, as long as you want to commit violence.
When Lucifer proclaims Chaos as an ideology of freedom, he's lying. It's an ideology about him being King of Tyrants.
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