These ideas can sound good to people. Specifically to a certain type of person in my experience.  Usually those drawn to art with higher sympathy for other people. They also appeal to the selfish and lazy, the greedy and envious. Its not all bad people or good. Same goes for freedom. Freedom appeals to people that are morally good or bad. 

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People romanticize so many bad ideas. 
The people that actually feel its effects know what it is like. 
Hence why they are actively running away.