Boredom at the End of History, Part I

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"Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterised by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, they then will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy."

~ Francis Fukuyama: the unread part from his book The End of History, i.e., his forecast of what would happen after the Cold War was won [hat tip Scott Sumner]

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