hissing meerkat

Imagine you had to date a pool of people who tend to systematically deny the validity of your experiences or perspective. You have a way of referring to your experiences in a way that

• is easy to ridicule
• provides a layer of isolation between what you present as yourself and being personally ridiculed
• is trivial to understand with the slightest bit of reason/empathy

Would you latch on to it as a way of filtering out dates?

And 100% of gamers have pressed the randomize button to at the start of a game to see if it’s something they can identify with.

Consulting Tarot has as much to do with thinking it’s scientifically real as flipping a coin has to do with making objective decisions.

Astrology and personality tests that get sold to businesses and a ton of other “fake” things all work the same way: they propose things that are frequently or universally true and then invite people to look at in what ways they agree with them or how they fit current situations.

Calling these things fake is the same as saying the personal reflections of people aren’t real.