I've always had a hard time grappling with Francis Fukuyama's "The end of history" assertion. It's like saying "the end of politics" or "the end of science" or "the end of sex therapy."
It struck me as one of those spectacular "hit or miss" proclamations. Of course, it worked as Fukuyama has become a recognizable face in academia.
But, really, how can history "end?" There is no beginning or end point to "history." Maybe one can be assigned to recorded history but...history as an abstract term?
Think about it.
As long as we exist, history will trail taking notes.
I have not read Fukuyama. However History as I see it is a work in progress and will keep evolving as discoveries are made in the archives of the world and events unfold.
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I have not read Fukuyama neither. And this 'end of history' thing seems not so interesting and (as far as I can tell) not true. Unless he meant some special thing by that.
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