Evolution or Degradation

In 1992, US author Francis Fukuyama published his most famous book, The End of History and the Last Man. In this book, he argues that with the rise of modern liberal democracies — which occurred shortly after the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union — humanity has not only reached a certain period of postwar history, but also the end of history.

That is, the end point of humanity's ideological evolution and the universalization of modern liberal democracies as the ultimate form of government. Fukuyama argues — like Hegel and Marx before him — that history should be seen as an evolutionary process and that modern liberal democracy is the final form of government for all nations.

And he believes that this is a positive thing.

Although I believe that Hegel and Marx are wrong and that history should not be seen as an evolutionary process, I do agree with Fukuyama that it seems as if the ultimate form of government has been created. But unlike him, I see this form of government as inherently evil.

A Struggle for Power

Since the French Revolution, most of the old monarchies have thankfully been removed from their actual positions of power, leaving a power vacuum that has since been filled with new power-hungry psychopaths. And now that they have gained this power, they will of course do everything they can to never lose it.

The introduction of ever more authoritarian laws, the abuse of populism through propaganda tools that the old monarchies could only dream of, the complete abolition of privacy, the massive use of extremely well-researched brainwashing techniques and the encouragement of infighting to ensure that the people — who have become increasingly docile — will never distrust their authority, but only each other.

All this is accompanied by mass surveillance techniques used by both the autocratic and the democratic regimes.

These populist techno-authoritarian plutocracies as they now exist in most countries around the world have developed forms of power retention so stringent that they are likely to persist until the inevitable environmental collapse.