Entertainment
The world has lived for millennia in the same rut – being born in misery, living in misery, dying in misery... at the most a few moments here and there of entertainment, not of ecstasy.
Entertainment is not ecstasy, entertainment is just an opium. You become so absorbed in looking at something – a movie, a circus, a football match, a boxing competition – that you forget yourself and your pains. Entertainment is a way of forgetting yourself and your misery. It can be only for a few moments; again you will be back. And your pain is not going to forgive you so soon. You deceived it – it is going to be revengeful. So after each entertainment you will fall into a deeper ditch of darkness and misery, just to compensate.
But this has been the way the world has lived. Only once in a while somebody has rebelled against this whole order. It needs tremendous intelligence.
-Osho, "Light on the Path, #20, Q1"
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It is a well-known fact that in poor countries the population goes on exploding for the simple reason that the poor man has no other free entertainment. The only free entertainment is to produce children. Although it is in the long run very costly, right now there is no ticket, no problem, no standing in the queue...
-Osho, "The Invitation, #23, Q3"