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. > [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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html