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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...now know what humanity most strives for, which is a liberal consumer democracy. Where people feel empowered to have the freedom to buy whatever..."
Fukuyama's end-of-history thesis named the liberal consumer democracy as the supposed apex of civilization, and Jiang treats that as the ideology of a unique American-led unipolar moment.
"...now know what humanity most strives for, which is a liberal consumer democracy. Where people feel empowered to have the freedom to buy whatever..."
"...fall of the Soviet Union, we now know that Western liberal consumer democracy is the best system in the world."
"...to argue about this. Everyone should try to be a liberal consumer democracy, including China. And if everyone became a consumer liberal democracy, there..."
"...ideas, we have now reached the end of history where liberal consumer democracy is the best idea. Not only is it the best idea,..."
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
A source-grounded reading of Augustine as empire's theologian: the Church escapes history, curiosity becomes sin, love becomes disease, passivity becomes goodness, and Arabia appears as the next place where fugitives from authority will prepare...
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