if human civilization really did survive a few decades of quantum suicide during the cold war, shouldn't we be seeing regression to the mean by now
instead of, you know, the opposite
There's the folk belief that the world went off the rails some time this decade, if one wanted to quantify that, one would have to ask people (of various ages, backgrounds, etc) how weird year XXXX was and go from there
I don't know what they'd find, it'd probably be subtle, because if you go by the big juicy numbers like productivity vs wages, the inflection point is somewhere near 1970 which doesn't map to the end of the cold war at all