Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Putin’s vision of Russia is not ‘desirable to almost anybody’ - Francis Fukuyama" video.

  1. Fukuyama talked of the ‘end of history’ and the ‘last man’ 30 years ago; that is the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government, while the ‘last man’ referred to what could go wrong with liberal democracy in the future. If we look around the world we see democracy as a rather fragile thing, liable to crack at populist/nationalist fissure points, as demagoguery maintains or returns to the box-seat in many countries. Taking democracy for granted is highly risky. The ‘last man’ in our current days just sounds plain ominous; especially for Western Europeans who hadn’t really seen an aggressive invasion of a sovereign nation by another since WW2; and when the invading nation has nuclear weapons, then talk of ‘last men’ becomes rather sinister and bleak.
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  2.  @clivedarwell5732  Summat like that.
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  3.  @seanscully4347  Said rather a lot, actually. Read it again. Read it better.
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  4.  @Redfvvg  It’s not ‘my’ civilisation, chum.
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