I've been railing against Myers Briggs and astrology for

I've been railing against Myers Briggs and astrology for decades. My smart friends, they do not understand. "That's obviously one of many artificial lenses through which to understand reality, nothing more than a fun parlor game that's obviously something that you can apply when it's useful and otherwise discard at a whim. Plus, it takes people who aren't naturally introspective and helps them enjoy a brief moment of introspection in an otherwise utterly unexamined life, what's the harm?"

I shout at them "because some people DON'T understand that and actually take it really seriously", and they tell me "maybe you'd be happier if you didn't exhaust so much mental energy being mad at imaginary idiots" and then I get thrown out of the Wendy's for standing on a table

that's one of the reasons I have a tarot tattoo, now, it represents lots of things, but one of them is my acceptance that every taxonomy-based non-scientific way of processing the universe, from jungian archetypes to astrological symbols to blood types - no matter how nonsensical, can still exist as a fun game of introspection and self-knowledge

It's fun to think about and talk about what makes you different from other people

Like with pro wrestling, stage magic, Santa Claus, the flat earth or the holy trinity - if you can't enjoy something because you're troubled by the mere existence of people who might be gullible enough to believe it's real, maybe you're the problem here

that's why everybody hates vocal atheists, they're basically the equivalent of that kid who figures out Santa isn't real and starts trying to ruin it for all of the other kids and smugly shame them for not figuring it out

yeah, WE KNOW, you're a real smart kid, now let us preserve some of the magic for the slower kids in the back, maybe the universe can still be special just for them, it's not like unfiltered reality is a nice or kind place for anyone