Astrology brings out a different side of me cause my father was literally obsessed with it and owned a billion astrology books and constantly talked about his chart. I have no sense of it being frivolous, I’m just like, “ah yeah astrology the dork religion”— Big Joel (@biggestjoel) April 4, 2022
I know tons of dudes into astrology. I dislike it because I work at a place that attracts the worst new age hippie liberals well off enough to buy $500 worth of snake oil every month while going on about covid and 5g conspiracy shit. It's so deeply intertwined with the new age Q Brain people I loathe it. I think as an isolated thing it's mostly harmless but the overlap with those groups where I am and those groups overlap with weird eco-fascist shit has me kinda chalking it up to the other side of the coin to American esoteric fascism.
I want to reiterate that it is harmless in a vacuum and that the overwhelming majority of people are not the ones I am talking about, but there is definitely valid critiques of new age woo woo shit and how it fits into (or rather has been coopted into) American esoteric fascism.
I know tons of dudes into astrology. I dislike it because I work at a place that attracts the worst new age hippie liberals well off enough to buy $500 worth of snake oil every month while going on about covid and 5g conspiracy shit. It's so deeply intertwined with the new age Q Brain people I loathe it. I think as an isolated thing it's mostly harmless but the overlap with those groups where I am and those groups overlap with weird eco-fascist shit has me kinda chalking it up to the other side of the coin to American esoteric fascism.
I want to reiterate that it is harmless in a vacuum and that the overwhelming majority of people are not the ones I am talking about, but there is definitely valid critiques of new age woo woo shit and how it fits into (or rather has been coopted into) American esoteric fascism.