Alain Badiou has made a direct connection between freedom and truth. True freedom is incompatible with the situation that predetermines individuals, and that will always redefine freedom for its own perpetuation. Rather, freedom requires an initial break with the existing structures that must then lead to a new exploration of truth. This exploration of truth is a committment to the creation of something new. Therefore, freedom is both a resistance to what exists and a creation of what could be.