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The End of History

If Books Could Kill

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What the Fuck Is He Talking About?

Fukuyama wrote an unreadable book because nobody's going to go back and find like specific passages that debunk him. Like this is the Paul Erlich move where even when you make specific predictions about the future, like there will be large scale famines and then those famines don't happen. All anybody remembers is like this guy seems like a smart dude. And in Fukuyama's case, no one understands what the fuck he was trying to say.

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