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Why is the world in so much misery?

The world's misery arises from the systematic destruction of a child's natural joy, as institutions thrive on guilt and fear, turning authentic love into hollow roles.

— Osho
According to Osho, the world’s misery comes from systematically ruining the child’s natural joy and love so that parasitic institutions—religions, social structures, and schools—can survive. By enforcing guilt, fear, and imitation, they create hypocritical, pretending selves cut off from reality. This continuous pretense exhausts us, replaces real love with hollow roles, and destroys the pagan, simple celebration of life.

We make kids stop being naturally happy and real so big systems can control them, and that fake living makes everyone miserable.

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