[lit-ideas] FW: Re: Fukuyama and the end of history
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:27:26 -0400
>
> Sad to no longer struggle for purely abstract goals? He's kidding,
right?
> Fukuyama is an idiot. Or he would have made a great Communist.
>
>
I don't mean to impugn Communists. They were just very ideological, that's
all. So were Fascists. Of course, we'll never know if Communism works or
not, since Stalin destroyed the country using Communist buzz words. Still,
the idea that one fights for purely abstract goals is very dangerous, not
to mention it's like digging a hole and filling it back up again. To
promote dying for an ideology is an amazing foundation for the U.S.
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 4/20/2006 1:22:24 AM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fukuyama and the end of history
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Lawrence, you've forgotten the book. I read it
> > > several weeks ago.
> > >
> > > Page references? It would quite a task. The book
> > > constantly attacks liberal democracy as a
> > > ploy of weaklings.
> >
> > The last paragraph of F' "End of History ?" essay
> > reads:
> >
> > The end of history will be a very sad time. The
> > struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk
> > one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide
> > ideological struggle that called forth daring,
> > courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced
> > by economic calculation, the endless solving of
> > technical problems, environmental concerns, and the
> > satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands. In the
> > post-historical period there will be neither art nor
> > philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the
> > museum of human history. I can feel in myself, and see
> > in others around me, a powerful nostalgia for the time
> > when history existed. Such nostalgia, in fact, will
> > continue to fuel competition and conflict even in the
> > post-historical world for some time to come. Even
> > though I recognize its inevitability, I have the most
> > ambivalent feelings for the civilization that has been
> > created in Europe since 1945, with its north Atlantic
> > and Asian offshoots. Perhaps this very prospect of
> > centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve
> > to get history started once again.
> >
> > http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm
> >
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