I don’t think that’s a good analogy. The cold war had two generations of people living under the very real prospect of nuclear apocalypse.Grant Morrison wrote once about how, at like age five, he was concretely visualizing nuclear annihilation regularly. By his early twenties, pretty much everyone he knew figured civilization wasn’t going to make it out of the cold war—that’s a lot of trauma, enough to power a massive ugh field. Vague complaints of “AI is costing jobs” just can’t compare to the bone-deep terror that was pretty much universal during the cold war.
I don’t think that’s a good analogy. The cold war had two generations of people living under the very real prospect of nuclear apocalypse.Grant Morrison wrote once about how, at like age five, he was concretely visualizing nuclear annihilation regularly. By his early twenties, pretty much everyone he knew figured civilization wasn’t going to make it out of the cold war—that’s a lot of trauma, enough to power a massive ugh field. Vague complaints of “AI is costing jobs” just can’t compare to the bone-deep terror that was pretty much universal during the cold war.