The album contains one of Young's most important songs -- "Rockin' in the Free World". The lyrics became anthems for two historic events of 1989: 1) student protests in China's Tiananmen Square and 2) the fall of the Berlin Wall[1] (http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ritfw.htm).
Several of the songs on Freedom previously appeared on the Japan only EP Eldorado.
The song "Rockin' in The Free World" was also used over the final credits of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11.
The absence of restraint is known in philosophical terms as negative freedom; a concrete example is the freedom of a prisoner released from jail.
The negative view of freedom tends to be held by those philosophers who think that the state is no more than the sum of the individuals composing it (mechanism).
The positive view of freedom tends to be held by those philosophers who regard the state as an end to which its citizens are the means (organicism).