Man shies away from nothing as from a rendezvous with himself—which makes the entertainment industry what it is.

Muliar’s aphorism suggests that the most consistently avoided encounter is not with danger or hardship but with one’s own inner life—self-scrutiny, solitude, and moral accounting. A “rendezvous with himself” implies an appointment that cannot be delegated: facing one’s motives, regrets, and contradictions. The second clause turns this psychological claim into cultural critique: much of mass entertainment thrives by offering distraction, noise, and continual novelty that help people evade introspection. The line reads as both wry observation and warning: a society that cannot bear quiet self-meeting will build industries devoted to keeping that meeting postponed.