the end of history

• Francis Fukuyama 1989 & 2022
• 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
• weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states
• confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies
• 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, Lilith Mahmud

linked mentions for "the end of history":

1. we have never been liberal

   Trump: the injection of racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic language into legitimate discourse threatens to undo strides made toward social

2. 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

3. confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies

   over the years, we have seen huge setbacks … yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad …

4. weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states

   key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states Russia and China both have argued that liberal democracy is in long-term

5. 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,