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>However, because he, like all liberals, is dead set on denying man any telos, he cannot countenance this because then he would have to realize that culture and education need to train people in virtue, that freedom is hard to achieve, that one doesn't just become free by turning 18 and avoiding any particularly bad situations.
This is my biggest problem with him, because at the end of the day, the End of History thesis is basically just saying there's going to be gay butt sex until the heat death of the universe, thanks to the liberal institutions that permit the perverted sense of modern "freedom" for the individual and capitalist economics. The fact that Fukuyama himself has admitted that China is giving the liberal paradigm and his thesis a run for its money goes to show how flimsy it was to begin with, and was what the post-cold war liberal elites wanted to hear. Now, even if China takes over you can still make the normative argument of liberalism being the greatest thing ever and that'll resurface to its rightful place, but thats still a feel-good proposition at the end of the day. Ultimately, liberalism does not provide an ultimate ends or purpose for civilization, is atrophying and incapable of confronting issues and threats domestically and foreign, and much as Fukuyama himself admits again elsewhere, technological paradigm shifts will outstrip liberal institutions and completely alter all socioeconomic and political relationships.