End of History (Francis Fukuyama)

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Establishment Social Scientists Before 1991 "Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did..." -John Ehrlichman The Rockefellers paid me good money to assure we create a nation of workers instead of a nation of thinkers. Now that we've lost to men who live in caves and shoot out of 1980s Toyotas, we should feel confident enough to harass 2 nuclear powers. I don't care if the previous Cold Warrior psychos say I'm crazy... After this point of economic downturn, UP military spending. We must make people fear the State again to restore democracy. - Samuel P. Huntington т "Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the Third World, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries." - Henry Kissinger Establishment Social Scientists After 1991 USA! USA! USA! "We have finally reached the end of history." - Francis Fukuyama I write geopolitical theories with the assumption that the US will always be a superpower

Che end of the end of the history *...Brother America and Brother China are gearing up for war...* *...Europe went authorian, and Russia is paranoid again...* *...I always knew that my little end-of-the-world post-modernist utopia would not last forewer. The reality is objective, the laws of nature and civilization development would not change just because you wished them to. At some moment you just need to stop delude yourself. * *...But I never thought it would happens so soon...*

DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM M X لحمد لحد The past The near future End of history

Francis Fukuyama: *writes "The End of History"* History: "Aagh, call an ambulance!" "But not for me"

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Overview

End of History is a political and philosophical concept often attributed to Francis Fukuyama in his book The End of History and the Last Man. The "End of History" refers to the idea that a particular political and economic system may constitute the final form of human government. According to Fukuyama, this takes the form of a liberal democracy and a market economy. Memes about the "End of History" play on the idea put forth by Fukuyama, with some memes joking about how the rise of ideologies like fascism contradicts his conclusions about liberalism being the final form of governance.

Background

Fukuyama was not the first to theorize about the "End of History," with philosophers like Hegel and later Heidegger grappling with what it means to "historicize" and reason with the past. However, Fukuyama came to be most closely associated with the phrase after he published his book The End of History and the Last Man in 1992.^[1]

The idea for Fukuyama's book sprung from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and centered around the idea that liberal democracy and the market economy are now the standard for governments, now that ideologies like fascism and communism have both fallen to give way to largely liberal democracies around the world.^[2]

Online Presence

Fukuyama's "End of History" thesis gained renewed attention after the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, as seen in coverage by Vox.^[3]

A meme posted to Reddit's /r/dankmemes^[4] on October 28th, 2017, used the phrase "end of history" to joke about Spain's final form of government being communism, gathering over 100 upvotes in seven years (seen below).

On July 6th, 2019, Redditor^[5] /u/ZviHM posted a meme about Fukuyama's work being proven wrong by "current events" (seen below).

The works of Francis Fukuyama Current events

On July 19th, 2019, X^[6] user @BungaCast posted a meme about Fukuyama's "end of history" thesis, gathering over 600 likes in five years (seen below, left). On September 30th, 2023, Redditor^[7] /u/New_Antelope2060 posted a meme about Fukuyama's theses to /r/NonCredibleDiplomacy, gathering over 300 upvotes in six months (seen below, right).