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So much of this is riddled with faulty analogies and failed predictions. The latest: Ukraine wanted sovereignty from the USSR because of the human drive for self-esteem, 'thymos', or recognition. This is a gross oversimplification, even by Frank's standards.

You can't fault Fukuyama for lacking the benefit of hindsight, but his claim that information technology shouldn't be regulated for its innate anti-totalitarianism is hilarious even from the perspective of 2012-13, hardly a decade after the book was published. A lot of the attributes he ascribes to biology could also be proper to metaphysics (eg. the perception of primary colours).

Ink in mid section chapters of Human Rights, Nature and dignity. Deeper and more difficult to proceed than first 6 chapters. One problem with the way Fukuyama places his argues is he wants to tell his main phrases aren’t absolute so before discussing the main phrase he brings up so many exceptions and contraries that I almost forget the main discussion. Eg : it is left but not absolutely here are 10 reasons against

Fukuyama is definitely more (and subtly) critical of abnormal behavior, but certain positions he presents like on aging are a little interesting to entertain amongst a sea of questionable drivel. Fun exercise to read anyway especially as the copy I have often contains footnotes from a previous owner that wrote stuff on the side 😂

This is my first exposure into Francis Fukuyama, so like with many authors and ideas I come to it with an open mind and an awareness of what's to come especially in terms of topics regarding biotechnology and its effects on the "human nature".