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The end of the end of history
Jul. 15th, 2004 12:23 pmDr. Fukuyama or How I jumped the Gun on the End of History,
Famous academic Francis Fukuyama, one of the founding fathers of the neo-conservative movement that underlies the policies of US President George W. Bush's administration, said on July 13 that he would not vote for the incumbent in the November 2 US Presidential election.
In addition to distancing himself from the current administration, Fukuyama told TIME magazine that his old friend, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, should resign.
Fukuyama's brain: Wait a minute...when I was talking about the end of history I meant it in a Hegelian perpetual-plateau, nice & non-eschatological way...They took it literally...Oh no, What have I created?! I am Dr. Frankenstein of the post-Kissinger realpolitik! Noooooo! I will not die a monster! I will not die a monster! (sorry, I just dropped $10 on Spiderman 2, and while I am disappinted because the vague intimations of The Press led me to expect something progressive, and instead I got Spideman-as-Jesus, paint-by-Benetton-numbers "diversity," a setback to all waves and particles of feminism, I insisted on, like, extracting some sort of progressive message for my $10, a pulled-teeth reading of the villain arc as a commentary of the "real terrorism can be homegrown and comes from the hubris of the nuclear proliferation project" variety).
Is this going to be, like, one of those major reversals by the paradigm-shapers that barely makes a blip on the radar of History, you know, the one that was supposed to End? Like, when Marx, towards the end of his life, witnessed the French and Prussian peasants totally failing to conform to his scientifically divined prognisis of history (a.k.a. class trumps nationalism) and totally fail to unite under the red flag of dialectical materialsm, and thus the Franco-Prussian Wars commenced and Marx died a disillusioned Marxist. Fukuyama, you should have studied your history better before declaring its passing. Nyeh-nyeh.
Famous academic Francis Fukuyama, one of the founding fathers of the neo-conservative movement that underlies the policies of US President George W. Bush's administration, said on July 13 that he would not vote for the incumbent in the November 2 US Presidential election.
In addition to distancing himself from the current administration, Fukuyama told TIME magazine that his old friend, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, should resign.
Fukuyama's brain: Wait a minute...when I was talking about the end of history I meant it in a Hegelian perpetual-plateau, nice & non-eschatological way...They took it literally...Oh no, What have I created?! I am Dr. Frankenstein of the post-Kissinger realpolitik! Noooooo! I will not die a monster! I will not die a monster! (sorry, I just dropped $10 on Spiderman 2, and while I am disappinted because the vague intimations of The Press led me to expect something progressive, and instead I got Spideman-as-Jesus, paint-by-Benetton-numbers "diversity," a setback to all waves and particles of feminism, I insisted on, like, extracting some sort of progressive message for my $10, a pulled-teeth reading of the villain arc as a commentary of the "real terrorism can be homegrown and comes from the hubris of the nuclear proliferation project" variety).
Is this going to be, like, one of those major reversals by the paradigm-shapers that barely makes a blip on the radar of History, you know, the one that was supposed to End? Like, when Marx, towards the end of his life, witnessed the French and Prussian peasants totally failing to conform to his scientifically divined prognisis of history (a.k.a. class trumps nationalism) and totally fail to unite under the red flag of dialectical materialsm, and thus the Franco-Prussian Wars commenced and Marx died a disillusioned Marxist. Fukuyama, you should have studied your history better before declaring its passing. Nyeh-nyeh.
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