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Exit, pursued by a bear, or Fukuyama as Antigonus

August 18, 2008 - 5:59 am - by Roger Kimball
Drew
2008-08-22 08:15:29

Yours is the best refutation of Fukuyama’s fantasy that I have read. When he initially released his treatise, my initial reaction was very base: What kink of fool wrote this drivel?
The intervening years have not caused me to reconsider my gut instinct on this; and, I have looked at most of his subsequent writings with extreme skepticism.
Why is it that academe seems to be driven by “the greater fool theory”? Have they become so insular that they are incapable of actual thought and reason?