There is a subtle connection between freedom and self-destruction.
It is not the ordinary sense of freedom that leads to this connection with self-destruction.
It is almost a rebellious psychology within human nature, in which people are willing to use a self-destructive way to achieve freedom, and rational calculation is completely excluded.
Adolescents often punish themselves to express their refusal, which is illogical in terms of rational thinking.
To summarize such actions in three words, "I would rather..."
"I would rather throw all my money into the sea than buy a house..."
From being willing to pay the price for freedom, to refusing cooperation, and gradually escalating to self-destruction, not for anything, but just for the freedom that self-destruction itself brings.
In Kafka's novel "The Judgement," the father and son argue, and the judge condemns the son to death. The son runs down the stairs and reaches the bridge, where he grabs the railing, hangs on for a while, despairs, lets go, falls into the water and dies.
There are two details here:
First, the son did not immediately jump into the water and die, but thought for a while on the edge of death before deciding to self-destruct.
Second, the last sentence of the novel is:
At that moment, the traffic going back and forth never stopped.
Self-destruction and freedom share the same fundamental origin. What kind of crazy insight is this? What does it mean?
The vastness of the human world and the richness of the details often make us forget this point. Every detail is related to all the past cultures.