Are the lost wanderers truly wicked, or are they simply minds left unclaimed?
It would explain why sacred texts cast vagrants and vagabonds as abhorrent.
These shifty beings unworthy of civilization, not for what they do, but for what they lack.
Direction. Roots. Purpose.
A mind without claim becomes a territory open to occupation.
Hill’s interview with the devil makes the picture crystal clear.
In Outwitting the Devil, Napoleon Hill conducts an interview with the devil himself.
The malevolent entity demands to be addressed as “majesty” because he claims royalty through the majority.
Ninety‑eight percent of mankind, by his own count.
And his agents are not demons.
They are the religious instructors and academic custodians who finish our sentences, answer our questions, and smother our curiosity.
The systems built to enlighten end up sedating the soul of society.
Bureaucracy, initially designed to benefit, becomes the valet service of Hell itself.
It is a velvet chain of comfort binding us to the void.
The tool this devil describes is called drifting. An inactive mind is susceptible to drifting.
First, it becomes a habit.
Next, it becomes an environment.
Finally, it becomes a cycle.
Drifters raising up more drifters.
A drifter is a mind on autopilot. A mind outsourced to fear, routine, and curriculum.
The opposition is what we call God.
The infinitely intelligent force that wakes the mind up.
His servants take ownership of their thoughts. They refuse to be ruled by fear or their own faltering.
The devil does not need your worship. He only needs your inaction. Indecision alone is enough to secure his foothold.
Fiction or not, the devil admits his natural enemy is not the believer.
It is the thinker.
He names Socrates and Carnegie among the ungovernable.
These are men whose minds could not be rented.
They refused to drift even when restlessness was the only thing they could count on.
Prov. 29:18
An ancient warning about minds left unclaimed.
Matty Thinks 
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