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Allan Bloom, the insightful author of Closing of the American Mind in his 1989 response to Fukuyama wrote that since the Soviet Union and Communism had been defeated Liberalism was victorious, but the victory“may be decisively unsatisfactory.” The meaning and purpose that ournational opposition to the evils of Communism provided to us are now gone, a new ideology of emptiness, deconstruction and inverted morality/amorality (post-modernism) has taken root. Bloom’s predictions for the future do not mirror De Tocqueville’s. I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future. (Allan Bloom, Response to Fukuyama, “The National Interest”, Summer, 1989) The timing of this catastrophic jihad war against us is not coincidental;our enemies see weakness in our confusion and anti-intellectual silliness. We no longer have the anti-Communist idea that unified the country for decades rather we now have an advancing deconstruction of Americanism itself.
Our desire (in some circles) to be accepted by the entire world translates into a failed world view of our collective guilt and averageness which cannot but elicit grave concern from our friends and derision and rejoicing from our adversaries.
Thank You President Obama for your contributions.
If you like here is more of Allan Bloom's response and a link for further exploration.
Author: Allan Bloom
Keywords: Allan Bloom;Francis Fukuyama;End of History;Last Man;Alexander Kojeve;Nietzsche;Leo Strauss;Heidegger;Nihilism;Liberalism;Liberal Democracy;Hegel;Karl Marx;Capitalism;Communism;Philosophy;Raymond Aron
Language: English
Collection: opensource
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Allan Bloom's analysis of the incoherence of Fukuyama's popular & popularized hypothesis after the fall of the Soviet Union and collapse of the Warsaw pact.
Bloom shows that Fukuyama has synthesized two notions derived from the thought of Nietzsche and Hegel which contradict one another, forming a nonsensical, not to say highly unpolitical, picture of our situation.Fukuyama seems to celebrate and deplore the victory of liberal democracy in the same breath. There is also a brief discussion of the place of Alexander Kojeve as the father of Fukuyama's perspective. The analysis of Fukuyama's hypothesis recalls Bloom's marvelous discussion of Raymond Aron, a great liberal thinker, whose temper was genuinely political and prudent.
Plus you can't leave outKant can you? No matter how you cut it. Civilized people must agree to a New rule of law, to reach the Utopian "Resource Based" Society. Note the singleness in all this.
Also they must agree to a new religious deity/overseer (Science and Machines) and be good citizens, and accept all the free corn as long as we do so within the confines/walls/fences of the "Smart City".
Don't worry about the machinery, population control and the like it is all pre-programmed by the creator.
Ahhhhh wait a minute! I feel a "Total Recall" Moment here.
None of this seems to allow freedom of anything other than the mind. Manifestation, teleportation, portals and the like are being used in a way as to impart some sort of enlightened level of conscience. In this trance like state you can travel the galaxies, visit any city or place you can dream up. You can even have conversations with beings from other places, from the past and anything you can focus your mind on can seem to become real.
Many groups are practicing mass manifestation exercises worldwide. In preparation for what? Some say decloakings and visitors from outer space will appear claim they are our predecessors or from our past in some way.
I agree a positive attitude is catching and can produce amazing results. H*ell, I've been in sales all my life and know the best solution to a bad day is to visualize your best day on the way to your next call.
Unfortunately all this is more dubious, I think and these psychological games, strategies and theories are being used by our common enemies (The Bilderbergers, the Illuminate and the Muslim Brotherhood) to condition and prepare us for a future of enslavement.
And to accomplish this a boogeyman has to appear on the scene. In starting this thread, I am stating and believe that "Radical Islam's and Shariah Law's" progressive aggressiveness is the true threat to all of us and especially the US and the American people. Neglecting these forces or denying their existence will more quickly bring the demise of this eras Rome, Alexandria or Babylon. In doing so the reverberation will be felt globally.)