Eschatology is baked into the American psyche, so don't over-read Silicon Valley doomerism
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-27
Economist Paul Novosad on Silicon Valley's obsession with end-times narratives: eschatology has always been part of the American psyche. If you know that tendency, you should update a little less from seeing all of Silicon Valley consumed by doom — it's cultural inertia as much as evidence.
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