Francis Fukuyama is famous in the International Affairs circles for stating that the end of the Cold War was the End of History. It can be found in its entirety here. Please re-acquaint yourselves with it, or if you have no idea what I am on about, do read it in the mind of 1989, not with 2012 glasses.
Now, Prof Fukuyama is interviewed in Der Speigel this week. They are long and I don’t want to publish them in their enitrey here.
Part 1, ‘Where Is the Uprising from the Left?’
Part 2 ‘Tea Party Activists Mobilize Against Their Own Economic Interests’
In a following lecture we will explore Benjamin Barber wrote a 1992 article and 1995 book, Jihad vs. McWorld, and further out we will cover Samuel P. Huntington wrote a 1993 essay, “The Clash of Civilizations”, as counter to Fukuyama’s arguement. These two essays and Fukuyama’s “End of History” essay have to be considered together and understood in the time they were written, post Cold War and pre-9-11.
CW…did yah get your drain fixed?
if not I can do a service call>LOL
but it’s gonna cost yah big time.
ribs and beer with a few mixed drinks thrown in////
mawskrat wrote:
its cleared.
but thanks for the offer!
Lost wants us to watch a video:
Lost wrote:
so there ya are, i’m gonna look at this later
Sorry to go OT, but FNC just had a clip of an recent
interview of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Egyptian Television.
The issue was a hypothetical writing of a Constitution
in 2012.
She said that she would not look to the U.S Constitution
for guidance, but rather the South African Constitution.
This is an example of why Obama should not get to appoint
any justices.
@ RIX:
yep saw that…how sad
@ RIX:
At least she didn’t suggest the EU constitution as a model…
@ RIX:
She’s probably correct – Egypt’s population is incapable of operating under the US constitution. Hell, the current US is having trouble doing so.
@ Mike C.:
I think I see the problem…
Mike C. wrote:
yes it seems Arabs need a brutal leader in
order for them to function.
Mohammod proved that/
I got an email this afternoon from the embassy warning us not to go to the Syrian embassy this evening, due to possible protests.
Yeah, because that was on my list of things to do tonight…
RIX wrote:
I honestly think she should be deported to south africa.
Put up or shut up, Ruth.
lobo91 wrote:
Or the Communist Manifesto, so that probably passes
as a moderate Democrat.
@ RIX:
She’s on record as saying that our Constitution should be amended to include rights to housing, food, and medical care.
Mike C. wrote:
It is just another example of what is wrong with the
Progressive Justices on the Court
As an example, Bryer thinks that it is a swell
idea to look to foreign cses for precednt, even
trumping U.S case law.
Every first year law student is taught that foreign
cases are permiisable only when there is no U.S case
law.
Watch this 1979 interview by Phil Donahue, with Milton Friedman as the guest, and watch very carefully what Friedman says about American Presidents.
Oh the rest of this excerpt is priceless too…as Donahue gets taken to School.
Phil Donahue: a douchebag in 1979 and still a douchebag today!
Ohhh My aching head
lobo91 wrote:
She understands the Constitution to lack “Economic Justice”
just like Obama.
Jefferson & Adams I’m sure would differ on the purpose
of the document.
I also think that I read that she wants to lower the age
of consent to 12.
Meanwhile as you know the muslims are having Bibles rewritten so as not to ‘ohhhhh fehhhhhhnd’ them
http://biblicalmissiology.org/2012/01/16/fact-check-biblical-missiologys-response-to-wycliffes-comments-on-lost-in-translation/
Instead of taking out the erroneous portions of the koran[which is every passage about biblical characters] they are getting the bible replace with their deliberate fallacies and mischaracterizations
RIX wrote:
Which is most likely the age when she lost her virginity.
@ Macker:
I think that she was probably a virgin until some guy
got really drunk.
Or just plain old Totalitarianism with a dictator, it is the classic formula and works well with islam and communism.
For a little variety, you can have a rotating dictator chosen for you by your communist government.
Or there are any number of ways elections can be rigged in semi-communist or socialist countries.
One could argue that the EU is taking freedom away from Europeans, denying them the right to choose an ideology.
Our own government is doing the same thing, I think it is the nature of government to do this.
Which is why our constitution has all that stuff in there about what our government can’t do.
well I must go Burn It Up in
da basement…work to do
See ya later
waldensianspirit wrote:
Lets rewrite the koran and cast barney the dinosaur as mohammed
Prebanned wrote:
On scraps of bark and segments of papyrus so they might [no guarantee] take to it
Where are they planning to use these bowdlerized bibles anyway? In most Muslim countries it’s a serious if not capital offense to expose people to Christian scriptures….
@ Moe Katz:
Particularly the West.
The foundation stone of islam is that Jesus was never crucified; that allah out schemed the disciples of Christ to make them think he was but it was an impostor so the disciples would lose their Jesus as allah spirited him away to stop their shirk or blasphemy. As long as this goal is achieved they don’t mind where said bibles exist.
In the Christian Bible this is called the “abomination that causes desolation” referred to in Daniel and Mark which refer to the Temple Mount and when it is exists there, the sands of time begin to tick a count down. The koran inscriptions on the sixteen lintel sides of the octagonal Dome of the Rock are all against the Father and Son precept by the disciples of Jesus from the original twelve to those who still believe today.
I can’t wait for next week’s lecture.
Fukuyama irritated me.
Bumr50 wrote:
when he wrote the initial essay “the end of history’ it did look like the world would settle into liberal democracies and all would be wonderful. but no, the muzz had to wreck the party.
you will like Barber and especially Sam Huntington.
When Obama was taking Jesus name in vain the other day he was saying he Obama not only wants what is Caesars but also the portion for G-d.
When it comes to economics Jesus said it all depends on the deal you make. Stick to deals you have made, see them through, make better deals when you can and don’t look over at the other guy with jealousy and greed in your heart because he got a better business deal
@ waldensianspirit:
yeah…ya aint gonna see any wycliffe crap in any of the orthodox churches i can promise you that.
@ coldwarrior:
I figured as much
One thing good is, it does wake us all up
@ coldwarrior:
Does he not believe in the original idea of America?
It seems that he’s already conceded that the American experiment and it’s constitution are a failure. Period.
He’s very hung up on income equality as being the only way to maintain social peace in a nation.
My “1989″ glasses aren’t much use to me, as they’re constantly staring at boobs and trying to look up skirts!
Chop a tablet, pencil and saxophone in half and give a half of each to a saxophonist and mathematician and the music sucks and the math lousy with details. But you did achieve income equality
@ Bumr50:
i’m not going to say i agree with him now either, he was on of the guys who gave the neo-cons the brilliant idea of democracy for all no matter what..which gives us the arab spring and the crap in iraq and afghanistan. he is a very important writer and thinker for this and by being familiar with his ideas, it is easier to understand barber and especially the giant sam huntington…both are for later
@ coldwarrior:
I look forward!!
I pulled this from a forum, and so I don’t have a link just yet.
Not saying I agree, just interesting:
Also apologies for formatting, but you get the gist.
Leaving aside candidate preference entirely, is anyone else troubled by the RNC’s seemingly indifference to their own rules?
Bumr50 wrote:
why should the politburo listen to the rules, we proles dont know how to read anyway.
waldensianspirit wrote:
We need that simplified for a t-shirt.
coldwarrior wrote:
and, they are counting on us knuckle headed tea partiers to say, well, 4 more years of obama would be so bad that i guess i have to eat this shit sandwich just one more time vote for mitt
@ coldwarrior:
It’s really just the GOP’s form of voter fraud.
How much validity does my primary vote really have?
I don’t think I’m overstating.
Bumr50 wrote:
there is is. fraud.
@ coldwarrior:
Fear not.
Forward thinkers are among us.
Excellent piece.
Bumr50 wrote:
that is going in special right now, thx