Word: fukuyama
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...waning months of the 1980s, a Sovietologist named Francis Fukuyama published a provocative essay called "The End of History?" Fukuyama's thesis--that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant people would have nothing more to fight wars about--was soon disproved. The 1990s have not been short on history. The end of the cold war defrosted earlier rivalries that had been frozen for two generations, bringing bloody history back to places like Bosnia, where it had been in cold storage...
...Which is why many scholars have expressed concern that Americans have been turning inward during the past 25 years. Putnam and others argue that such self-help groups as 12-step organizations and New Age religions have usurped and replaced outward-looking civic groups. In his book Trust, Francis Fukuyama says that the "rights revolution" of the 1970s and '80s undermined the country's sense of community. I replaced we as the pronoun of choice. The Me decades supplanted the We century. There is no doubt that America's narcissism is showing. But ever since feminists asserted that the "personal...
...This is not the end of history," Christopher theorized, "but history in fast-forward." Though he dismissed Fukuyama, the Secretary actually embraced the notion that industrial capitalism and its servant, representative democracy, will dominate the global marketplace unchallenged. America's interests he unfortunately believes, lie in the glitch-free maintenance of the present order...
...famous essay "The End of History," Francis Fukuyama pointed out that the followers of Karl Marx and the disciples of Adam Smith may actually share something in common, in spite of their very different beliefs. Both groups (along with the Material Girl herself) harbor a deep belief in the importance of material things in our lives. Both groups believe that societal progress can be measured in terms of how many material goods the citizens enjoy...
...latest tribute to civil society comes in Francis Fukuyama's book Trust, whose title captures a primary missing ingredient in modern life. As of 1993, 37% of Americans felt they could trust most people, down from 58% in 1960. This hurts; according to evolutionary psychology, we are designed to seek trusting relationships and to feel uncomfortable in their absence. Yet the trend is hardly surprising in a modern, technology-intensive economy, where so much leisure time is spent electronically and so much "social" time is spent nurturing not friendships but professional contacts...