Taking 4 years to finish 6 identical chairs is probably the best metaphor for the state of the US that he will ever devise
U.S.ADHD
Only thing left is for him to get sued by NIMBYs resulting in a court order to disassemble them
Mel Gibson in The Patriot sitting on the rocking chair and it immediately breaks.
Isn't he kinda self aware about the End of History stuff?
I think the cope is that end of history refers to the end of grand ideological struggles and not that stuff stops happening, paired with some lazy takes about how there’s no reason to think that free trade, capitalism, and liberalism are on the decline. I think the most charitable interpretation of his claim basically reduces to “the short 20th century is over”, but that’s just the Marxist historian classification lol.
I'm pretty sure that's not what he wrote in his book. I kinda want to read it but seems kinda pointless now that it has clearly failed the test of time.
Understanding the mistaken reasons he came to those conclusions and persuaded many other of them could still be useful, so don't let it being obviously falsified now keep you if it's something you want to read.
I'm not sure I need to read the book for that.
I think it looked like convincing enough of an idea that a historic fixed point had been reached for the decade between the end of the USSR and 9/11 and the burst of the dotcom bubble.
Might explain why Obama was into 三体.
What probably will keep me from reading The End of History is that there seems to be nobody who seriously believes it anymore and I tend to read this sort of books because I get into silly arguments.
it has very little value as a book of political science and nobody really believes it anymore, but it does provide one of the best single source windows into the liberal zeitgeist post-USSR destruction that heavily influenced the global politics of the next 2-3 decades
that is to say I'd probably never read it either since it's 450 pages of liberal slop, but I think the book does have value in that regard, and huge value to anyone investigating the rise of BRICS from the western liberal hegemony's POV
I could see that.
In a real sense, we still haven't escaped the cul-de-sac produced by the end of the Cold War. US hegemony & liberalism are in decline, but almost everywhere is using the capitalist mode of production (some states discipline that production much more that others, e.g. China), but we are still in capitalism. And as the world fails to seriously address climate change year after year, we move closer and closer to global system collapse (barbarism, the "common ruin of the contending classes").
I think we can get out of this. The highest likelihood of escaping this is China led by the CPC, but we aren't out of the woods and if we don't get out then in some sense Fukuyama will have been right, but rather than contending with the issues of Nietzsche's "last man" at the end of history (as Fukuyama wrote about) or achieving the Marxist escape to a higher phase of history, it will be a deep regression of human civilization
dudes rock
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
