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...Last Man,” Professor Fukuyama famously argued that liberal democracy will become the last form of government, the final product of the evolutionary mechanism that is history. But both the director of this would-be blockbuster and the renowned political scientist got it wrong. While Fukuyama??s vision of the future was surely more accurate than Emmerich’s, he didn’t dream wildly enough...
Very few countries, such as Belgium and the Netherlands, have chosen the former option on a nationwide level, and here in the U.S., Washington and Oregon have followed suit. But even without such drastic permissiveness, there is a link between Fukuyama??s predicted champion, liberal democracy, and a rejection of constraint. A democracy that attempts to retain any sense of right and wrong beyond the obvious indicators of injury and illness faces an uphill battle in light of this aversion of conflict...
...flourished are likely to keep society’s normalizing compass spinning. The U.S. is a notable example of this—a society that has retained a sense of morality outside of the harm principle but is unsure where to proceed next. As fewer and fewer citizens in Fukuyama??s predicted world see the value in virtue, society would be likely to advance toward a morally minimal liberalism. This philosophical stance, coupled with a democratic political organization, is likely to make the end of history closer than you’d think...
...Andelman, a former Crimson editor, has done with “A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today,” a book which can easily be viewed as a treatise on history. Far from being Marx’s series of evolving dialectics or Fukuyama??s linear trajectory towards the liberal democratic “end of history,” Andelman’s history is a process that is often indelibly altered by the actions of a small number of individuals. Certainly, one of his criticisms of the Peace Conference...
Noting not only the human cost of such historical blindness, but also its societal and cultural effects, we should be extremely wary of the triumphalism that now marks our present discourse. Francis Fukuyama??s famous “End of History” argument is only the most blatant example of this. Much discussion now seems to assume that the gravest threat we will face in the next century will be fixing Social Security. Yet history has not, and never will, “end” anymore than it did during the 19th century?...