Escaping Freedom
BY JIANG SIQI
WOULD YOU WANT to escape from your current free-
dom? Don't be hasty to answer this question. When you
think hard to become the person that is the most appealing
to the universities you choose, do you have the impulses to
escape from the freedom? When you press the button of
“purchase” again and again for games or clothes, do you
really have freedom? In the novel Fight Club by Chuck Pa-
lahniuk, people quit their jobs to fight with each other till
blood spills or burn down buildings together. Are they trying
to have or escaping from freedom? According to Fromm's
theory, in modern society, where people seem to be free,
some of them tend to escape from freedom guided by au-
thorities.