This is an interesting read actually.
This Cunting is not so much for Fukuyama but his inane theory of the “End of History (EOH) and what it represents.
After the collapse of the USSR Fukuyama, in his very influential book “The End of History”, predicted the triumph of Western Liberalism. Fukuyama’s argument was that, with the collapse of communism, the last ideological alternative to liberalism had gone. Fascism had been killed off in ww2, and now Communism was defeated.
In Communist states, like China, political and economic reforms were heading in the direction of a liberalism. Fukuyama saw history as the process by which liberal institutions and democracy become universal. Fukuyama said history had therefore reached its goal. Cue collective backslapping amongst the Western elites who now rested on their laurels and pushed dangerous idea of global corporatism and multi-national institutions like the EU without restraint.
How shortsighted was this? Fukuyama missed completely the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in China which culminated in Tiananmen Square. Since then it’s gone from bad to worse in China which has not embraced Liberalism but rather state capitalism, which has emboldened it and made it just as oppressive as before.
And Russia has not embraced Liberalism but kleptocracy. Putin, with a stack of nukes inherited from the USSR and an even bigger chip on his shoulder, is making dangerous mischief around the world. At least the old Soviet leaders were statesmen. Putin is just a chippy little cunt. And it also seems that the nation state refuses to die, as Brexit and tensions in the EU demonstrate.
So it seems that history hasn’t ended and that it’s got a few more tricks up it’s sleeve.
Fukuyama, to do him credit, now realises this. He also blames woke identity politics because he says these demands can never be satisfied and racial grievances and self-flagellation by the woke elite, will never be sated It’s an endless cycle. Fukuyama has realised that people are not rational and, until they are, history will not end.
If liberalism is to be saved it has to be freed from this end of history nonsense. People need to stand up and defend it against the Chinese, the Russians and woke post-modernism. People have to realise what freedom is and defend it. Fukuyama has made the West sit on its laurels and take its eye of the ball. Has anyone got the guts to do it? Perhaps then we will see not so much the end of history but at least the end of cunts.
So what’s this Cunting for? Stupid, idealistic theories that are removed from reality, I suppose.
Thanks for bearing with me.
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Nominated by – MMCM
