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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Real talk I used to make fun of astrology, and later I learned to chill out about it and not be such a nerd and let people enjoy things.
But then recently I was part of a conversation that 2 people turned into a tangent about astrology and they went on and on for about 5 minutes about extremely detailed personal qualities of Scorpios, down to how they supposedly react to a long list of very specific scenarios, and how this was a good way to understand and predict the actions of a couple of specific people they knew.
I realized I wasn't actually ready to stop being really annoyed by astrology.
Astrology is just space phrenology.
This, astrology is new age calipers
If astrologists had institutional power it would be a nightmare, it’s only fun when not taken seriously at all.
A lot of modern economists remind me, outside of their priestly function, of the court astrologers of Imperial China who would be like "My Lord, the stars tell me that you must reorganize the dispensation of the salt monopoly to my wife's cousin's son's control, lest we should, in 2000 years hence, be ruled by Winnie the Pooh'".
Yeah Astrology is horrible and all superstition should be ruthlessly extinguished, and I would get on with that if I wasn't old, grey, and tired.
Sucks being in a conversation and realizing you're the only person who doesn't whole heartedly believe in magic. No, please do tell me about how the big rock out in space decides whether or not you have a shitty day at work I am good at maintaining my composure my poker face is great and my confusion and disgust definitely will not leak through when I try to decide if you are harmless or one of those people who will make decisions that harm me and the people I love because you think your inner monologue is the voice of god.
A big rock in space decides I have a shitty day at work every day it called the Earth
I am not an astrologer I am an earth scientist
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@panopticon ty
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That’s just the Barnum effect
The problem comes up when astrology people start arrogantly analyzing your personality based on that shit, come to a negative opinion of you based on that, arrogantly roll their eyes and pout and smirk at the fact that you obviously are such a libra/whatever by obviously not believing it, and then spouting that utter nonsense to people around you. They are actively essentializing people and shaping their behaviour with them according to literal insanity.
Astrology should not be allowed to be published by public book publishers of any kind in a socialist society. If people want to believe insane bullshit in the privacy of their appartments, that's their problem. But the moment you start trying to spread those beliefs and use economic resources to do so in a way that can undermine people respect for scientific thought then that's definitely a problem.
I'm sorry but it's basically just phrenology for hippies.
What'd they say, was it good?
Something about scorpios always trying to weasel out of arguments they're losing. Like someone else here said, it's totally the barnham effect
Alright, now I'm mad.
What they mean by barnham effect is that it applies to literally anyone to some extent