Francis Fukuyama, professor at Stanford and member of the “Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law”, personally welcomed the neo-Nazis and opened the event. Which event you ask? This event:
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When he was born into the world, he may have wondered as a kid: ‘‘what will my legacy be?’’ What will I be known for? Though many of us are born with grand ambitions, others are more mundane in their aspirations, but Francis was a special kid, he wanted to comprehend history, the historical process, how history is made and perhaps even undone. It was this vision of such liberal self-importance that prompted young Francis to pursue the sacrilegious notion that history could come to an end. What does it mean for history to end? That no humans would be left around or alien buddies to record what we did? Could humanity teach history to apes and other advanced lifeforms so as to preserve history? Posadist Dolphin historians, maybe? Or a Bob to record what the baby Prometheuses were doing? We don’t know, but Francis knew. He saw it in 1991. The greatest threat of a good example at the time was the USSR, and while we were playing Street Fighter 2, Francis was deciphering what to do. In 1992, in some caustic enthusiasm for America #1, he not only conjured a phrase hitherto unheard, but also echoed our Deutsche freund, Nietzsche, with his concept of the ‘‘Last Man’’. It was thus that Francis finally reached notoriety, with the publishing of ‘‘The End of History and the Last Man’’.
But what happened the exact second the book was published was that Francis realized something that had slipped his euphoric and triumphant American mind: history is continuing. History wouldn’t stop for America, there’s a whole world out there that kept making history. What audacity, we would think, being born outside of Western mythology and in the warm embrace of historicity. But Francis wouldn’t have it, he kept moving the goalpost, his claim to fame in disrepute. No matter how much he tried to reinterpret the ‘‘pseudo-historical events’’ occurring in the periphery, outside of America’s history, Francis couldn’t stop it. It was thus that no matter how much he swam against the current of history, his legacy was already written for posterity. He would forever be known as ‘‘the end of history guy’’.