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title: "Wicked Winds They Design to Trap Your Wishful Mind (CT004)"
heading: "Wicked Winds They Design to Trap Your Wishful Mind (CT004)"
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updated: "2026-01-31T19:32:00+00:00"
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description: "Dreams and hopes we need to keep on moving. But don't chase those hollow fairy dreams, the glitter they flash at you in the horizon. Cross-check the narrative — both inner tales and all that you hear — against actuality and clear reason."
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 Dreams and hopes we need to keep on moving. But don't chase those hollow fairy dreams, the glitter they flash at you in the horizon. Cross-check the narrative — both inner tales and all that you hear — against actuality and clear reason.

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**Dream on, my friend!** Keep the wings of hope airborne — but do recognize the stark boundary between your dreams and present actuality. If all you do is keep on chasing fairy dreams and fleeing from the monsters under your bed, you will be scattered like clouds with the relentless wind. All of these ideas, giving us momentum, need to be cross-checked with reality, tempered with clear reason. When we forget to ground ourselves in what is, we are chasing hollow carrots into a celestial palace in the clouds. 

There is no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. Not the rainbow promised to you by the elected politician, not the rainbow displayed in product packaging designed by marketing wizards. Chasing those ideas, you are driven, triggered, scattered, and your fragments are preyed upon by the vultures.

Do not be naive in trusting the whispers in the wind. Do not believe in the tall tales. Do not trust those lofty promises. When it seems too good to be true, then typically it is a load of a fragrant bull designed to entrap you. If it sounds just like the thing you wanted to hear, as if meant for you — that my friend is called targeted advertising, that's exactly the way it works. Not to fulfill your hopes, but to capitalize on them. Know the difference. 

It's not like the great consumerist machinery actually has any interest in fulfilling your needs in a manner that would leave you satisfied. That'd be the end of it, if they actually provided you with something that fulfills all your basic needs, and that's it. The fact is, it's deep-wired into the system, fundamental to its survival. 

Economic growth must be constant, and you must keep on running in that hamster wheel faster and faster and faster. The dreams they dish out for you, like an insidious incubus, like a harlot designed to sap your every essence. And again, all the ghosts, demons, and monsters they flash at you, that's just the other side of the coin, to keep you running.

Then, friends, in your own best interest, in reclaiming your cognitive sovereignty, unsubscribe from the pushings and pullings of these foul winds blowing across your horizons, corrupting all that you meet. Have your dreams, have your hopes, but do not subscribe to hallucinations designed to manipulate and exploit you. Stay grounded in your essence, remain true to what is. In time, those winds will wither, as more and more of us unsubscribe from the illusion. Keep it real.