What is Autonomy?

In this day and age we are taught in our schooling systems that we live in a free nation with with a free market economy where inequality is at a minimum or virtually non-existant. However when we begin to study the class divides, wealth inequalities, property taxes, and homogeneity of public opinion and lifestyles perpuated out of various social constructs, it becomes apparent that we are not free and our traditional view of freedom is challenged. So the question arises then, in a society where only oppression is known, what does it really mean for something to be free? What does it mean for a person to be free? Is this liberation an external friction that cuts against the grain of oppression, or is it the realization that oppression and fear only exists if you choose at some psychological level to comply with them to fulfill a sense of belonging and protection. If the definition is the latter then surely true autonomy is ineffible and can only be experienced rather than explained. But if this is the case than why am I writing about something that cannot be described with words? Why am I even bothering to inquire into such a personal state of conscious perception? I am bothering to inquire to get you to bother to inquire; freedom can only come to a person by their own means and I feel that after experiencing my own psychological autonomy, it is only right that I share my experience with others. It is your birthright to be free. We are all here experiencing life together so why not aid each other in our experiences? For everyone who reads this, question everything I just said and question yourselves. Question everything you do including your motives for your questioning, your responses to your questions and so on. And most importantly realize that all the solutions to these questions are already within yourselves.