ahah that's a very good question. I can only give you my personal interpretation of it :)
I guess I think the goal is to feel a sense of freedom when we listen to the music, at least that's how I understood the themed exercice. I totally join you on the current political situation, our current freedom is a joke and that's probably why it was the theme of that edition, to explore and meditate around that feeling which is getting rare. But you're right the concept itself is debatable and can be expressed in a lot of ways probably, I guess I was expecting to feel it in the music before all :).
Besides that, it's one of my favorite soundtrack tbh