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...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...
...then the push for isolationism, or what Arthur Schlesinger has termed "the return to the womb?" Despite its minimalist rhetoric, the "new" position does not herald a fresh, more friendly geo-political landscape in which U.S. muscle is no longer needed. As the Senate bill shows, far from Francis Fukuyama's euphoric declaration several years ago that the era of major historical conflict had come to an end, the new policy derives from a blind faith in an old ideology and the applicability of Cold War strategy to the post-Cold...
...spread of monotheism has culminated in what Francis Fukuyama deems the 'End of History'--the unrivaled dominance of Western-Capitalistic-Monotheistic-Dead-White-Male- Anglo-Saxon-Democratic Society (Historical Studies A-12). Monotheism is incompatible with life in multicultural society, which requires freedom of choice not only in lifestyle, but also in after-lifestyle. What we need to cure the ills of society, therefore, is a viable challenge to the hegemony of traditional thought. In a world where people can choose from fifteen flavors of Snapple, one godjust isn't cutting it anymore...
When the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union deconstructed and freedom swept across the old communist bloc, American foreign policy analyst Francis Fukuyama offered a much discussed thesis about what he called "the end of history," wherein, with communism gone, the world's civilization would settle upon a kind of sun-splashed plateau of democratic pluralism and free- market rationalism. One of the worst dangers in the post-Fukuyama world might be boredom, a fitful cultural unease...