JMG - I must say, in the decade plus since I've been reading your posts and other works, this might be one of the funniest observations you have ever made (and there are quite a few in that category). As unethical as astrological chart fraud may be, you gotta hand it to the CCP bureaucrats. They know their customers and they know how to cya!
On a related note, I would be very interested in hearing your take on how, comparatively, astrology is handled in the East vs. the West. Your finding here would suggest that people in the East take astrology very seriously on the official level while privately ignoring it while Western society officially ignores astrology in public and obsesses about it in private. There may be more nuance here but from my own Western standpoint it would seem that everyone I've met who publicly dismisses astrology as a quack science is also someone who is deeply invested in it emotionally.
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Date: 2024-07-10 02:45 pm (UTC)On a related note, I would be very interested in hearing your take on how, comparatively, astrology is handled in the East vs. the West. Your finding here would suggest that people in the East take astrology very seriously on the official level while privately ignoring it while Western society officially ignores astrology in public and obsesses about it in private. There may be more nuance here but from my own Western standpoint it would seem that everyone I've met who publicly dismisses astrology as a quack science is also someone who is deeply invested in it emotionally.