The End of History and the Last ManThe End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay "The End of History?", published in the international affairs journal The National Interest. In the book, Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government.
"What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."
This thesis conflicts strongly with Karl Marx's version of the "end of prehistory".[2]. Fukuyama's thesis, coming at the end of the Cold War, is an obvious reference to Marx's phrase. However, Fukuyama draws from the work of the source Marx got the phrase from, the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In particular, Fukuyama is influenced by the interpretation of Hegel by the French thinker Alexandre Kojève, both arguing that the historical progression has led towards secular free-market democracy (conceived in terms of a multi-party system of political representation). Fukuyama seems to have been pointed in Kojève's direction by the prominent Straussian political philosopher Allan Bloom, who taught Fukuyama.
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Fukuyama has been affiliated with the Telluride Association since his undergraduate years at Cornell, an educational enterprise that was home to other significant leaders and intellectuals, including Steven Weinberg, Paul Wolfowitz and Kathleen Sullivan.
I am just saying...
I am just saying...
why are you just saying?
Paul Wolfowitz...
Need I say more?
Fukuyama has publicly recanted these previously held views.
So what does that tell us Sub?
Fukuyama or no Fukuyama. There exists an apocalyptic secular mythology every bit as potent and fantastic as the religious apocalypse.
Except these guys have their hands on American Foreign Policy and the American treasury.
Or at least America's credit card.
9/11 blew Fukuyama’s End of History thesis out of the water.
He had to backtrack and blame his former running buddies, the Neo-Cons, for misreading history which he did in his follow-up book-- "America at the Crossroads."
"Fukuyama has deflected some subsequent criticism by arguing that he was not prescribing a blueprint for hastening the end of history, but rather saying that his thesis was misunderstood by conservative “Leninists” seeking to accelerate history by imposing democratic norms on less advanced societies." Jonah Goldberg
Except these guys have their hands on American Foreign Policy and the American treasury.
Say it ain't so Plato. You mean these guys control God's Son, B. Hussein Obama?
How can that be?
Well I don't know Bitchy ...
What's Hussein Obama got to do with Foreign Policy and America's credit card?
This nation was hijacked long before God's Son got in the White House.
This nation was hijacked long before God's Son got in the White House.
So God's Son is just another puppet of the power elite.
And that's the change you believe in?
Just like the rest of Black America, you been had, you been took, you been misled.
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