the phrase “the end of history” was coined by Hegel (the first philosopher to speak the language of modern social science) to refer to the liberal state’s rise out of the French Revolution as the goal or direction toward which historical progress was trending … notion that mankind has progressed through a series of primitive stages of consciousness on his path to the present, and that these stages corresponded to concrete forms of social organization, such as tribal, slave-owning, theocratic, and finally democratic-egalitarian societies, has become inseparable from the modern understanding of man
distinguishing between what is essential and what is contingent or accidental in world history, and are predictably superficial #wordgem
1989: What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
we have never been liberal Trump: the injection of racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic language into legitimate discourse threatens to undo strides made toward social
white supremacist capitalist patriarchy a term coined by the late feminist critic and social theorist Bell Hooks that describes a system that benefits from inequality and exploitation, and
writing healing fiction I define my writing style as “healing fiction.” It’s not merely because I gather most of the paragraphs from the transformative journaling process,