AI is a unique cultural moment concentrating people's unresolved issues into worldviews
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-10
onionesque argues that every few years a cultural moment acts as a psychiatric solvent, but the AI one is unique: it concentrates people's unresolved issues into worldviews, offering both a window for projection and a vehicle for false power. "The world was not made by The Last Man. The lesson will be re-learned in due time."
A sober take on why AI discourse breeds extreme positions: the topic amplifies individual anxieties and fixations.
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