Chapter 27 Chapter Eight: The Elixir of Escaping Freedom

In his famous book, Fromm pointed out that after modern people have gained unprecedented freedom, they suddenly find that the feeling of extreme freedom is not as good as originally imagined.However, the responsibilities and challenges brought by freedom often exceed the pressure that individuals can bear. Therefore, modern people are looking for a space to escape from freedom in the struggle of freedom all over the street.Drugs simply and expensively give modern man a space to escape from freedom. "You know what, I love heroin, I love it!" Pippen's withered face flushed as soon as Pippen mentioned heroin, as if heroin was the girl of his dreams.

"How do you love the law?" I asked. "I was with two of my friends, and I put my sister's wedding dress on. Then we each got a shot of heroin, and pretty soon, that weird feeling came up." "What does it feel like?" "Superman's feeling, the feeling that you get what you want. I want to be the bride, and I become the bride; I want to be the groom, and I become the bridegroom; even I think Marrying myself, I think I can do it too," said Pippen, smiling.Apparently, he was very much intoxicated by the heroin sensation. "Some say heroin is the fairy pill."

"Yes, it's a fairy pill. Unfortunately, this fairy pill can't be stopped. Once you stop, the feeling will be too bad." "What kind of bad idea?" "The feeling inside the body is dizziness at first, then abdominal pain like twisting, and finally a thousand insects, as if there are countless worms biting you inside. The feeling outside the body is that you have passed the Indian Hundreds, and everyone you pass is right. You punched and kicked, you wailed and cried bitterly, but no one paid any attention to you, and everyone just beat you." Pippen put a smile on his face when he did the above description, which shows that the blocking effect of heroin is extremely terrifying.

"In this way, you find an illusory blissful world of freedom in heroin, but heroin simultaneously transforms the real world into a devil's world." "Oh, the real world, I used heroin originally to escape the real world, but after using it, the real world is even more terrifying, and it's hard to turn back." "And what does cocaine feel like?" I want to know how addicts think differently about various drugs. "Cocaine is an accelerator. After using cocaine, you feel that everything is accelerated, and you are extremely happy. Many people have a strong sex drive after using cocaine, and they act like dogs."

"Can you compare the difference between heroin and cocaine?" "Heroin gives you a trance, and cocaine gives you a euphoria." "Then which of the two costs more?" "Of course it's cocaine. Cocaine makes people crazy, and when a person is addicted to cocaine, his only goal in life every day is how to get cocaine. Heroin makes people lazy, and the movements of slackers are naturally slower than madmen. So, if The speed of drug use has also slowed down by half a beat." Drug addicts create illusory freedom within themselves while escaping from the freedom of reality.A person who is disappointed with reality can easily find what he hopes and yearns for in drugs.This huge difference between reality and illusory feelings makes drug addicts unable to extricate themselves once they become addicted, until their real life is completely destroyed.

In the United States, the most liberal capitalist country, the helplessness and fear of individuals in the face of freedom are naturally rescued by drugs, but after satisfying the illusory feelings of individuals, drugs ruthlessly hurt or even destroy the real life of the individual.When individuals fail completely in real life, even the economic basis for purchasing drugs is lost.Drug addicts not only lose everything in reality, but also lose the economic ability to maintain drug use. This is a "serial drug scheme" that completely destroys everything.Stupid and helpless drug addicts jumped into this bottomless vortex one by one, allowing their lives to be dismembered and sunk along with the drugs.

Liberalism and individualism are often linked together. When individual-oriented capitalism advocates freedom, it must despise collectivism and authoritarianism, and the latter two are the core of socialism.While individuals lose their full freedom in a socialist country, they naturally reduce the anxiety and helplessness caused by excessive freedom. The tendency to escape from freedom finds a natural home in drugs in a capitalist country where individualism is at its core.Relatively speaking, the tendency to evade freedom in a socialist country with collectivism at its core puts much less pressure on the individual. Therefore, the individual's dependence on drugs is relatively light. My inference is actually that in capitalist countries It has long been confirmed.Addicts of all kinds have voluntarily established mutual aid groups in the United States, and their overwhelming momentum has completely surpassed the doctor-centered treatment provided by the government.In group interactions, addicts get a sense of group belonging that is lacking in capitalist society.Although it is sympathy for each other, its inner core meaning is the yearning for "the socialist big pot of escaping freedom".I demonstrated the superiority of socialism from drugs, do you think it is strange?