I do think there's a world of difference between real paradises that enrich your soul - spots in nature where you just feel like you are in paradise, reciprocity in love. But being fooled into thinking you are in paradise if you can just fix a few things is no, it is worse than just empty. It is good money after bad until the bank is broke.
I live in a nice spot with my animals and plants - that's the equal spot - I am neither in a real paradise or a fool's paradise. It is inestimably better than the fool's paradise I was in and I've gone from being in a situation which I clearly understood to be deteriorating to here I am in a warm spot, hard to describe but it's like coming out of the freezer, shivering a lot only to regain a sense of self like a nice woollen vest.
I think the witchdoctor idea is a way premies have of dodging the truth of their situation. The innocent fool's paradise is no more once you take on board that it is just a stage show and that's it. How can you get excited about seeing him after that?
And that's maybe where a person starts to feel like a fools paradise is better than no paradise, it's as if you're putting a bandaid over the hurt feelings which would come with actually seeing how badly you've been done by a conman.
