/lit/ - Literature

Isn't it funny how Fukuyama was so laughed at by the leftist (and rightist) crowd for the End of History, given how clearly the truth now lies in plain sight, namely the "nothing ever happens" meme?

He was right all along. Nothing ever happens. There are no subcultures. No great political figures. Things just sorta stopped happening. Nothing ever happens, anymore. History has ended.

His quotes:
>"The end of history will be a very sad time," he wrote, "I have the most ambivalent feelings about it." He lamented the passing of the heroic age of mankind: “The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one’s life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by. . . the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.” History had ended in the prefabricated, conformist lanes of suburbia. “In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”

>Fukuyama warned of “a powerful nostalgia for the time when history existed,” the third challenge to the End of History. It may be that humanity is incapable of existing without struggle. “Such nostalgia, in fact, will continue to fuel competition and conflict even in the post-historical world for some time to come.” Most presciently, Fukuyama suggested that “this very prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history going again.”

He wrote this in the 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, years before the fall of the Soviet Union.