Francis Fukuyaman haastattelu Washington Postista kannattaa lukea. Fukuyaman kirjaa Historian Loppu usein pilkataan - lähinnä ne jotka eivät ole lukeneet sitä. Fukuyama esitti ajatuksen historian lopusta ja liberalismin voitosta, mutta teki monta varausta sen suhteen, että tämä oikeasti tapahtuisi.
Ei tosin lopullisesti mutta väliaikaisesti.
Autoritarismin haitat on taas kerran kerrattu hyvin Venäjällä ja muuallakin. Liberalismi (liberaalinen demokratia ja konsumentarismi) voi saada hetkellisen voiton, kunnes se taas rapautuu omiin sisäsyntyisiin ongelmiinsa eli siihen että liberalismi ei tarjoa ihmiselämelle merkitystä.
Liberalismin sisäsyntyistä ongelmaa Fukyama käsittelee seuraavasti:
I wonder whether we’re seeing something like this in the extraordinary outpouring of support for Ukraine across the West: There’s a mass embrace of this opportunity to stand tall again on one side of an ideological struggle.
Fukuyama: I think that’s right ...The spirit of 1989 went to sleep, and now it’s being reawakened. I do think people like the idea of struggling for a just cause, and they really haven’t had anything other than consumerism and mindless middle-class pursuits in the last 30 years.
By the way, I think a lot of that right-wing populism is driven by that same boredom.
Fukuyama: Liberalism is a doctrine that deliberately says, “The purpose of politics is not to serve final ends, like the vision of the good life that’s defined by religious doctrine, because we can’t agree on what those are. So we’ll agree to tolerate people that are very different from us.”It means that every liberal society therefore has a weaker sense of community than one based on a single religion or single ethno-nationalist tradition. Liberalism by design doesn’t give people this tightly bound sense of brotherhood or sisterhood with their fellow citizens.
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