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"Changing the definition of national identity to fit reality is the least coercive and most promising path to national unity."

- this might be the single most retarded thing I've ever heard a political scientist say lol. you can feel a deep tension and insecurity whenever fukuyama writes about national identity. he conveniently ignores much of what his mentor samuel huntington was getting at in "Who Are We?"

In democratic nations, men will attain a certain degree of equality with ease without being able to reach the one they crave. This retreats daily before them without moving out of their sight; even as it recedes, it draws them after it. They never cease believing that they are about to grasp it, while it never ceases to elude their grasp.

Choose any American at random and he should be a man of burning desires, full of initiative, enterprising, and, above all, an innovator. In fact, this outlook permeates all his works, enters his political laws, his religious doctrines, his theories of social economy, and his domestic occupations; he carries it everywhere with him, deep in the woods as in the heart of his cities.