it wasn't wrong though. after the Cold War ended and gommunism had been defeated everyone kind of had no sense of purpose anymore and it was like "This is it?" nothing to do except live in your shitty suburban home and commute to your mindless cubicle slave job. that was the 90s mentality and in a sense we never recovered from it.
>>18520630This stuff you said about comfortable suburban lifestyle and office wagework only applies to the western first world, though. Btw, Fukuyama is not entirely wrong either, but not for the reasons you listed. But because even our currently geopolitical and ethical debates are all pointed towards capitalist consumption, human dignity, positivism and rationalism, instrumentalization of nature, commodification of culture and human relations, and tech singularity. Even rivals to the West, like China or Iran are also moving towards the same objectives, but through different means. The only countries or societies going to a different direction, such as N. Korea, Bhutan or indigenous tribes in the Amazon are too weak to make a difference.He also correctly predicted that Pan-Europeanism would only get stronger (specially now, that the EU is trying to be less dependent on the US).The main thing where Fukuyama was wrong was to believe Neoliberalism was going to be the mainstream accepted ideology to achieve those objectives in the long term future, where in reality it's going to be chinese-style social democracy and national developmentalism.
>>18520630Just because you are demoralized and useless doesn't mean everyone is. Elon Musk achieved his dreams with spaceX. Life changing movies get directed and video games get developed often by independent artists who never thought they'd make it. Trump showed the power of one man never backing down in politics and the culture war.
>>18520777>where in reality it's going to be chinese-style social democracy andStopped reading there, Jiang.
>>18520630I wish people actually read the book instead of making it a proxy to hold discussion on whether or not neoliberalism is the best model possible. His argument is actually not that related, it's a hegelian-kojèvian analysis of liberal democracies, where the "end of history" rather means "the pinnacle of political development".Of course his argument got completely obliterated by the failed attempts at nation-building, the rise of China, and the rise of slopulists
>>18520630>90s mentalityIf you mean 1890s then yeah. How do you think NS and communism attracted such a religious fanaticism and inspired such a ferocious willingness to commit atrocity in the first place? What feeling do you think possessed the masses that made such quasi-religious political ideologies attractive?
>>18520630Wrong on every metric
