Yeah. I’m thinking along these lines, too. People born without the threat of nuclear war hanging over their heads somehow have tamed it in their imagination: As bad as the apocalypse of climate change? How could it be? Bring it on. Do they think they’ll be fighting a war in Europe the way Afghanistan battles were fought? Again, the very phrase “war in Europe” gives me chills that I expect younger folk may not have. Thanks, btw, for bringing up that terrible book The End of History. So many ills in that Pandora’s box.
I remain astonished that Fukuyama continues to be regularly called upon to opine on the events of the day considering just how wrong-headed his triumphalism was. But then as I said, he wasn't just speaking for conservatives--in many ways, he was voicing the vision that people like Blair, Clinton etc had, which was that the end of the Cold War meant accepting and incorporating the limiting and incrementalist vision of neoliberalism, embracing austerity, etc. Precisely when it was time to demonstrate that a world without totalitarianism and the threat of nuclear annihilation meant that we could at last take care of our own unfinished business, they shrugged and said, "actually, no, you'll just have to live with all that forever".
Yeah. I’m thinking along these lines, too. People born without the threat of nuclear war hanging over their heads somehow have tamed it in their imagination: As bad as the apocalypse of climate change? How could it be? Bring it on. Do they think they’ll be fighting a war in Europe the way Afghanistan battles were fought? Again, the very phrase “war in Europe” gives me chills that I expect younger folk may not have. Thanks, btw, for bringing up that terrible book The End of History. So many ills in that Pandora’s box.
I remain astonished that Fukuyama continues to be regularly called upon to opine on the events of the day considering just how wrong-headed his triumphalism was. But then as I said, he wasn't just speaking for conservatives--in many ways, he was voicing the vision that people like Blair, Clinton etc had, which was that the end of the Cold War meant accepting and incorporating the limiting and incrementalist vision of neoliberalism, embracing austerity, etc. Precisely when it was time to demonstrate that a world without totalitarianism and the threat of nuclear annihilation meant that we could at last take care of our own unfinished business, they shrugged and said, "actually, no, you'll just have to live with all that forever".