"Enoch Root" wrote in message
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Andrew VK3BFA wrote:
Grossly OT - he probably doesnt even own a hammer. Francis Fukuyama, an
audio netcast of an interview. Gives the fascinating background history
of the American Neo-Con movement.
Nice to hear someone, of ANY political persuasion, being able to make
an articulate case for their beliefs rather than just spouting generic
abuse. Gives some surprising (and unknown to me) history.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/a...042006_28M.asx

If you open with Windows media, you can move the cursor thingy about a
quarter of the way across to get the start of his talk.

I got his book "The End of History" or whatever it was titled, back when
the wall came down (I was living in Germany at the time)

I didn't think much of it. An early attempt to dress up the ideology in
the ideas of important thinkers (i.e., Hegel). I.e., Hegel thought
Napoleon was the last Man, and history was no longer the stuff of men,
of individuals. Fukuyama has repackaged that idea in the wake of dust
following the fall of the wall.

I don't think anyone else thought much of it, either. 'Cept the neocons.


But, I just found a decent treatment of it at wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End...d_the_Last_Man

So you can think whatever you like.


You have to hand one thing to the guy though, at least he is willing to
admit it when he is wrong. That in itself ought to disqualify him from the
republican party. As Bush and his cronies have shown, admitting a mistake is
something a real republican cannot or will not do. Fukuyama is clearly
bright, well educated, and has what it takes to change course and his views
when new evidence shows he was wrong. Too bad that doesn't apply to the Bush
administration.

Hawke