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Fukuyama inside out, Monday, May 23, 2022.

Introduction.

Francis Fukuyama wrote his influential essay The End of History in 1992, and in terms of

the macro thesis, I think we have to say that it is not aged well.

History appears to me like it is just limbering up.

Mankind has not reached any kind of apotheosis in the secular state, and we are not going to

settle into a benign and room temperature consensus, in which the global elites give every

man his own fig tree that he might sit under it, and wear the bureaucrats of Brussels

wipe away every tear.

No history is just getting started, and it looks to me like it is going to be a real

rodeo.

The thesis in a nutshell, I have been on a Peter Zahanjag for a little while now, and

while I don't agree with him in every particular, I am massively persuaded of a central thesis.

If you would like to go in your own personal jag, his current books are The Accidental

Superpower, The Absence Superpower, Dis-United Nations, and in just a few weeks the end of

the world is just the beginning.

I have read the first and third, and currently reading the second, and will read the fourth

as soon as it is out.

It has been a most informative jag.

I am going to summarize that thesis in the next few paragraphs, go on to register a

few caveats, and then get to my main point, which is to suggest what all this means for

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