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I was a toddler when the Soviet Union dissolved, do you think the public/cultural perception of China, of Russia, or of middle-eastern terrorists that we have t
by LeifCarrotson 3y ago
I was a toddler when the Soviet Union dissolved, do you think the public/cultural perception of China, of Russia, or of middle-eastern terrorists that we have today is of a similar character to the Soviet bogeyman?
Also, I don't think that brains have changed that much in the past 60 years. Many of our best and brightest are now in fintech or adtech instead of manufacturing and research groups, but I wouldn't say that better brains were why the Saturn program succeeded when Starship seems to be as much of a challenge today (rather, I'd say the goalposts in economics, risk, and capacity have shifted).
- chasd00 3y ago> public/cultural perception of China, of Russia, or of middle-eastern terrorists that we have today is of a similar character to the Soviet bogeyman? I don't think so, i was a kid but remember breaking news on TV of Russian strategic bombers enroute to the US only to turn away at the last second. It was day by day whether society ended or not during the cold war.
- justinator 3y agoChina is where my iPhone is made (and everything else). Middle East is where my oil comes from. Russia is in a stalemate with a former satellite country whose main export is grain. They don't make a good antagonist.
- avmich 3y agoCould be surprising, but some kids of the day in the Soviet Union were more fearful (well... wrong word...) of Chinese nukes rather than American ones.