EQUALITY FRATERNITY LIBERTY

Three important objectives stated in preamble of our Constitution: Equality, Fraternity, Liberty (Let's ignore justice for a moment)
Liberty- freedom. Freedom can be freedom to move and live and explore and have access to all economic opportunities or humanly pleasures. Freedom can, freedom to choose community, religion, religious practices. The first set of freedoms, aim at individual liberty, they keep individuals and individualism at focal point. The second set of freedoms, keep communities and community lives at focal point. Edifice of individual freedoms is Judeo-Christian dogma that all men are born equal. This eventually aims to atomise the society and put an end to a community life. While fraternity on the other hand again aims to promote communities, community lives and eventually community interests.
Thus, liberty can either be described with respect to equality or with respect to fraternity. But aren't these two standing against each other, as how can atomisation and eventual integration of a society go hand in hand? Isn't individual liberty over hyped? As when a society is reduced to individuals, individuals try everything in their hands to safeguard individual interests, and at the height of individualism, they do so at the cost of the interests of others in general and their community in particular. The voices shouting loudest for individual freedoms eventually land up curtailing the freedom of weaker individuals of the society thus ending the same idea of democracy they were apparently fighting for against a democratically elected regime which they dubbed as authoritarian. An atomised society forms a fragmented nation. A fragmented nation is always exposed to the risk of being taken over by a truly dictatorial regime of an individual, a group, or a unified community, howsoever smaller it may be in terms of population. It not so, a fragmented nation in turn is defeated and it succumbs to the invasion of powerful nations motivated by a powerful cause as they are not able to put up a fight against the invading forces.
This explains the need to strike a balance between individual and community aspects of liberty. This explains the reason, as to why Indian state, should endeavour to institutionalise strong family values within Hindus, via education, if not by force, and it should endeavour to make it tough to disintegrate a family as a unit via legal means. While state, may not interfere with the mediums of popular popular culture, safeguarding their freedom of expression, when they try to promote individualism through their creations,(literary or audiovisual), state should endeavour to counter their narrative through its own set of schemes and communication channels, if the society and nation is to be strengthened.

Machineries of state, which incentivise atomisation of Hindu society, are thus civilizational enemies.

(Reference: upword)

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