Kinds of People

I’m trying to reduce my exposure to explanatory systems that describe people as being “a [whatever].”

I will note that this is a fairly challenging project for an astrology student.

Indeed, many people seem to be attracted to astrology BECAUSE they enjoy classifying people as things, which is pretty unnavigable for me.

This hobby walks hand in hand with ideology, the reduction of VOLUNTARY AFFIRMATIONS into ontologically steady states of being and then identifying AS those, which is something a very interesting Orthodox Jewish lecturer once sincerely described to me as “make-believe.”

Now, what was interesting about that lecture, and the whole assertion that “make-believe is good actually,” was that it INSTRUMENTALIZED ideology for a practical purpose specific to his community, which the guy could clearly describe. Thus, my question to make-believers is, WHY?

You may have your reasons, I’m not disputing that. But I’m gonna need to hear ALL about them and see how I feel about the morality — intentional OR accidental — of that ideology before I want to hear anything it has to say about Kinds Of People™.