{"id":38846,"date":"2023-06-19T23:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38846"},"modified":"2023-06-19T23:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:33:05","slug":"futile-grasping-after-the-steering-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/06\/19\/futile-grasping-after-the-steering-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Futile Grasping After The Steering Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>WaPo&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2023\/06\/13\/astrology-millennials-gen-z-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest reporting<\/a> on <del>mental illness<\/del> the desire for control over our lives:<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body grid-center grid-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">According to Allied Market Research,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alliedmarketresearch.com\/astrology-market-A31779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the global astrology industry<\/a>\u00a0was valued at $12.8 billion in 2021, up considerably from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthprofessional.ca\/news\/industry-news\/why-are-venture-capitalists-pouring-billions-into-astrology\/256535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$2.2 billion<\/a> in 2018. By 2031, it\u2019s expected to rise to $22.8 billion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Absent another crisis like the pandemic, though, I expect it&#8217;ll actually drop. The newer generations are more data-driven, and when those folks apply analysis to the accumulated data of a few years, astrology will be &#8211; once again &#8211; revealed as a fraud, a grifters&#8217; tool.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">And those who can socially afford to walk away will do so.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">But if there&#8217;s another crisis, all bets are off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo&#8217;s latest reporting on mental illness the desire for control over our lives: According to Allied Market Research,\u00a0the global astrology industry\u00a0was valued at $12.8 billion in 2021, up considerably from\u00a0$2.2 billion in 2018. By 2031, it\u2019s expected to rise to $22.8 billion. Absent another crisis like the pandemic, though, I \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/06\/19\/futile-grasping-after-the-steering-wheel\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38847,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38846\/revisions\/38847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}