What's your dream job?

If you're talking small commune living then the onus of doing that stuff gets shared by as many people as are able and it's hard work but it's shared. If you're talking greater socialist society it gets done the same way as it's done now, but the people who do it get paid a much larger share of the value their labor creates and it is incentived to ease the burden where possible because you can't treat the workers as disposable and cheap.

To be fair, you’re talking about slave labour.

Typical tankie take.

I've seen it. Tarot is like amateur therapy, with props. It's a whooole lot of talking back and forth, with some cards to comment on.

Yeah some people take it way too seriously, but most people just enjoy it for what it is. Like I've got a lucky rock that I feel off without, but I know it's just a fetish.

Astrology is only accurate in that everything it says is vague and easily interpretable in multiple ways.

A teacher did an experiment where he handed his class custom astrology reports based on their birthdate, and asked them to rate how well they fit each of them. Everyone gave it a high rating, and said it was very accurate. He had them pass the paper to a different student, and everyone laughed because everyone got the exact same astrology report.

I had some friends do astrology readings for themselves that depended on the exact time they were born. I asked one of them about how they accounted for time zones and DST. (They didn't.) I may have gotten my point across.

You just made an excellent argument for why tarot is inefficient given its random nature. There are healthier more logical approaches to expanding your perspectives.

Anything more and it’s less about shaking out of an established mindset and more just wanting to play pretend

Disclaimer: I don't believe in astrology. However, I always have this discussion with my students when we talk about pseudoscience and superstition (and this is likely an unpopular opinion here), but astrology can't be entirely dismissed out of hand . Astrology doesn't have much of a basis in reality, but there is some credibility and research to support the idea that some aspects of your personality can be shaped or impacted by the month in which a person is born, especially in rural/agrarian communities or areas with harsh climates.

It's not the stars themselves and it's not like your day-to-day life is affected by the current star sign or "mercury in retrograde," but think about how formative experiences and your earliest memories can be influenced by the time of year. A child in the Dakotas in the 1800's that has their first memory as a 2yo in February while the family is on the verge of starvation is going to have a very different experience than a child in the same time and geographical area that is born 6 months later whose first memory is of a harvest festival. Not to mention they are going to have very different nutrition and growth patterns, etc.

It's purely anecdotal, but I've seen this occur to a small extent in my personal life. My oldest was born in January, and he learned to walk in the dead of winter in a snowy environment (so, inside at home), but my middlest was born in April and learned to walk at parks and baseball fields. Does that mean their long-term personality traits are based around that? Not necessarily, but it's certainly plausible and early scientific research does support there being some correlation between season of birth and personality (Source 1, Source 2)

Entertainment (and the arts) would probably not have a large central component. I imagine many more people would engage with arts than today thanks to shorter work weeks. Set building and performances and the like would probably occur on a more local level.

that sounds like a government but without the extra steps. i'm in

If there is bamboo around it will be used. I'm also envisioning a donkey on a treadmill which lifts buckets attached to a rope.

I think it is. It's the same function as court jester.

Was my joke too soon?

You should learn what the Paradox of Tolerance means. If you're tolerant of the intolerant, you're fucking it up.

Stop fucking it up.

Kinda true though. The world you witness is filtered through your subconscious to turn raw data into concepts your conscious mind can deal with: book, car, chair, dog, etc. That's why optical illusions work, your mind gets used to interpreting the raw data a certain way, and that can be cleverly exploited to make your conscious mind see things that weren't in the raw data. "Belief" is just loading up a new subroutine to your subconscious to filter for something you value. But if you don't really convince yourself, it won't stick. You can't just ask your subconscious nicely to do things, it's to "dumb" for that. You have to imprint with rituals and such to strengthen associations.

Open up the door, it's REAL!