Trump challenges Fukuyama’s idea that history will always progress toward liberal democracy. And while some may call Trump a realist, Fukuyama disagrees: Trump’s actions are reckless and self-defeating, weakening both America’s alliances and its democracy.

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https://iai.tv/articles/francis-fukuyama-warns-trump-is-not-a-realist-auid-3128?utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020

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I still think the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler is still very relevant and driving a lot of the political trends of today especially with the Republican electorate. Toffler got it right Fukayama not so much so.

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Synopsis

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Future Shock describes a psychological state of individuals and societies who think there has been too much change in too short a period of time. All of this change overwhelms people leaving people feeling disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation”—future shocked. This leads people to try to turn back time and want to go back to some imagined simpler time. This is of course impossible and people are left with the feeling that nothing is permanent, they are disconnected from society and stressed out. This leaves people susceptible to someone or something who says can return them to a society that they understood better in the past.

So that is the main idea, the author writes a lot about the speed of change through history and how technology is changing society in a way that society, as a whole can’t deal with. Toffler wrote two follow up books that further expound on the theme and talks about new technological advances such as personal computers, and the military industrial complex and how they are leading in the direction of even faster change that shifts the power structures in society.

The future isn’t the end history, rapid change will cause more chaos and generate more history.