6/27/2023 0 Comments Political decay![]() We begin somewhere remote with primates and family hunter-gatherer groups. Volume two skids through the 19th century to the present, but to appreciate the astounding ambition of Fukuyama’s project one must reach back to volume one, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (2011). ![]() Now he has finally and triumphantly completed what must be his life’s work, telling the story of the evolution of the world’s political institutions in two fat volumes loaded up with wisdom and stuffed with facts. He supported Obama, and wrote eloquently of the failures in Congress organised by the latter’s enemies in the name of democracy. Later, after the Iraq invasion, he wrote an admirable short book trashing his ex-associates. ![]() Would we be happy as humans – or would we not enter some zone of deep, anti-climactic dissatisfaction? And would liberal democracy be superseded?įukuyama mistakenly endorsed the neocon imperial project. He wanted us to think of what we should do with ourselves now democracy was installed globally. ![]() But Fukuyama had something subtler to say. Many chose to interpret Fukuyama’s dense, aphorism-studded argument as an arrogant, misguided spelling out of the triumph of liberal capitalism. J ust after the end of the cold war, a young American-Japanese political scientist published an arresting essay entitled The End of History?, followed in 1992 by a book, The End of History and the Last Man. ![]()
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