Anti-AI backlash compared to late Qing resistance to modernization
menhguin · x · 2026-11-06
X user lefrizee argues the anti-AI backlash is a 21st-century echo of the late Qing refusal to modernize. Reposting, menhguin takes the analogy seriously and adds historical nuance: the anti-modernization elites were educated court conservatives who feared it would devalue refined traditional skills like studying the Classics, while Qing officialdom was actually split on modernization until the modernizers were suppressed.
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