Kicking the Ladder
Why Francis Fukuyama is not even wrong.
I once asked the late Lorenzo Albacete, a Puerto Rican priest and New York writer, what he thought about Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History” idea. He smiled. “According to Fukuyama … it turns out that the culmination of the human spirit looks like the suburbs of New Jersey.” Today, I live in the suburbs of New Jersey, and they are indeed wonderful, if n…
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