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...crime, no pornography, no drugs, and no dirt to speak of -- may strike many as at least a reasonable facsimile of paradise. Singapore, long an object of curiosity for its unique blend of open economics, authoritarian politics and social engineering, is attracting attention as a model modern society. Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History?, says the "soft authoritarianism" of countries like Singapore "is the one potential competitor to Western liberal democracy, and its strength and legitimacy is growing daily." Tiny anticommunist Singapore (pop. 3.1 million) has even found an ardent fan in mainland China (pop. 1.16 billion...
...Fukuyama asks "whether, in the long run, human beings are really made happy by the sacrifice of their individuality." Young and better-educated Singaporeans chafe at the petty restrictions and ruling-party patronizing. "Lee Kuan Yew thinks we are basically stupid," says law professor Walter Woon, a rare establishment critic...
...FRANCIS FUKUYAMA...
...Three years ago, a U.S. State Department analyst named Francis Fukuyama published an article titled "The End of History?"He said the contest with communism was over and that democratic pluralism has won. If capitalism and a market economy are the way the world is going, are those things compatible with the civil society as you describe...
...passing should free our "striving spirit" to concentrate on all sorts of other challenges, such as the growing conflict between the haves and the have-nots and the need to refine liberal democracy, not just in places like Sri Lanka but in the developed world as well. So Fukuyama can cheer up. The continuation of history will be plenty interesting...