For China, the Taliban and the DPRK, I think Fukuyama would probably argue that they don’t necessarily disprove his theses, but it’s just that it’s taking much longer for them to liberalize than he would have anticipated in the 90s (he also never said that any of this was inevitable).
For Mormons in Utah, I don’t think they really pose a challenge, since they seem to quite happily exist within the framework of a capitalist liberal democracy.
Technology, and AGI in particular, is indeed the most credible challenge and may force us to reconsider some high-stakes first principles questions around how power, the economy, society… are organized. Providing some historical context for how we arrived at the answers we now take for granted was one the main motivations of this post.
For China, the Taliban and the DPRK, I think Fukuyama would probably argue that they don’t necessarily disprove his theses, but it’s just that it’s taking much longer for them to liberalize than he would have anticipated in the 90s (he also never said that any of this was inevitable).
For Mormons in Utah, I don’t think they really pose a challenge, since they seem to quite happily exist within the framework of a capitalist liberal democracy.
Technology, and AGI in particular, is indeed the most credible challenge and may force us to reconsider some high-stakes first principles questions around how power, the economy, society… are organized. Providing some historical context for how we arrived at the answers we now take for granted was one the main motivations of this post.