escape from freedom

"Nice democracy you had there, America."  We who live under freedom tend to think that is the natural state of man.  It isn't.  Mankind has generally lived under some form of authoritarian rule.  Form dynastic tribes to current dictators, people have rarely demanded true freedom.  The idea of a dictatorial father figure getting his power from God is somehow comforting to many people.  Erich Fromm may have been right.