Core Insight:
According to Osho, hypocrisy flourishes in educated, civilized society because freedom expands: only where one can fall can one pretend to be high. Animals and indigenous people act more mechanically, with little capacity or opportunity to deviate, so there’s nothing to hide. Civilization multiplies choices, temptations and self-consciousness, making people responsible—and prone either to authentic renunciation or to masking their impulses as virtue.