[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 424 KB, 1334x2045, end of history.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20232695 No.20232695 [Reply] [Original]

This actually aged extremely well and the people who cite it as an example of liberal naivete haven't read it.

>> No.20232704

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ButtAWqNpRg

>> No.20232705

>>20232695
So the book is about how it ISN'T the end of history and liberalism will be wiped away with time, just as Marx and Engels had said more than a hundred years ago?
Why don’t more Marxists read this gem?

>> No.20232709

>>20232695
Speaking of, his prediction that populists (including Orban and Le Pen) will lose popularity because of their Russia support was wrong.

>> No.20232714
File: 79 KB, 504x695, Francis_Fukuyama_2015_(cropped).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20232714

EWWWWWW. Ugly, yuck

>> No.20232721

I don't understand how ennui and "the last man" can be a thing in an imperfect world. If you're a bored secular elite, why don't you work on raising mankind? We could always use more virtue.
>inb4 religion
I'm talking about the bare minimum.

>> No.20232787

>>20232721
A staple of liberal democracy is how amoral it is.
Everyone is free to choose their own morality, in effect this means that average people just go with an extremely simplified “just be vaguely nice to others, also the only sexual more you cannot violate is consent” and elites just lose any moral restraints they had.

>> No.20232797

>>20232787
Widespread acceptance of casual sex is a far more recent phenomenon than liberal democracy. Being promiscuous was still largely frowned on in America like 15 years ago.

>> No.20233042

>>20232695
>>History will end in liberal democracy
>Even though democracy always favours populism
>Even though populistic demagogues will support their own loyal men, forming a party
>Even though it is better to built loyal members than acquire them
>Even though the most loyal members are the outcasts whom the party favours
>Somehow, liberal democracy will still be the endpoint of history, not some outer party of populists ruled by an inner party of minorities and perverts ruled by a cabal of unelected technocrats.
How?

>> No.20233064

>>20232797
You don't even live in America LMAO

>> No.20233071

>>20233064
Yeah I do

>> No.20233111

>>20232797
The sexual revolution was in the 60s. But this was preceded by the roaring 20s, and the naughty (18)90s. There’s been cycles of prudishness and promiscuity. I still think it’s debatable that it’s liberalism alone allowing this escalation.

>>20232787
Funny how elites have zero moral compass no matter what age we look at.