#endofhistory

[sempervirens117]

“There definitely were warning signs,” #bradley2024 insider confessed to @joerogan “The while being 5150d thing in 2020 with @kpthrive during #COVID19 was a major wake up call. I also read Fukuyama @williamsadmission @ephalum So, there was THAT.” #endofhistory #lastmanstanding @hooverinstitution (at Williams College) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdZHDaJvCSh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[soapkaars]

“It’s called Rondo Veneziano. You’ve probably never heard of it.” Back to my roots! Weird 80s, Memphis-style interior design with bright, edgy colours. I’m playing around with the design sensibilities I grew up with, but without the veneer of nostalgia, yellowed covers, dog-eared pages, or sun-bleached posters. The era was plastic, cheap, gaudy, agressive, and full of contradictions! That’s probably why I like it so much. There’s a Weimar Republic feel about it, a project that everyone kind of knew was doomed but were also so convinced they were the end of history. That, and I like combining bengal rose with yellow green and prussian blue. . . . #memphisstyle #italiandesign #80sdesign #80sfashion #endofhistory #lpcollection #hipster #inktober2020 #inktober #drawing #painting #gouache #acrylicpainting #ink #indianink #nibpen #brushdrawing #recordcollector #youveprobablyneverheardofit https://www.instagram.com/p/CGjlznSDVde/?igshid=11h3861m360pp

[russianshoegaze]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2019/09/08/shawn-rosenberg-democracy-228045

The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy

Human brains aren’t built for self-rule, says Shawn Rosenberg. That’s more evident than ever.

[ftapon]

I met @francis.fukuyama, author of the #endofhistory @stanford. Unlike me, he goes by Frank. 😮 Peter Stansky (pictured at the podium) organized the excellent event. (at The Stanford Humanities Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw2Ebmalqsv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p4m7902toes0

[conorwaltonpainter]

'Happy Days' oil on linen, 30 × 60cm, 2008 #painting #stilllife #vanitas #happydays #endofhistory #endofart #endofnature #endofscience #theendofthefuckingworld #itstheendoftheworldasweknowit #conorwalton #irishartist #artistsofinstagram #artoftheday (at Wicklow, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnl65AoDEZV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dnuo8y0ibk0o

[conorwaltonpainter]

'It's the End of the World as We Know It' oil on linen, 30 × 60cm, 2007 #itstheendoftheworldasweknowit #vanitas #stilllife #endofhistory #endofart #endofnature #endofscience #skull #hourglass #picasso #rem #artoftheday #artistsofinstagram art_spotlight #irishart #conorwalton (at Wicklow, Ireland)

[needlefac]

[stag28]

"The parameters of the game had to be nimble and not tailored to a narrow understanding of history. “One of our fundamental goals was not to project our own philosophy or politics onto things,” Meier said. “Playing out somebody else’s political philosophy is not fun for the player. We strove to make all types of play viable.” But few forms of cultural production about the world are ideology-free. The Civilization series is not devoid of political philosophy, nor are all types of play truly viable. Meier may insist that the game’s designers only wanted to make a fun experience for the player, but they’ve made much more. [..] Slavery, the single-most important economic institution of recent millennia, is entirely absent in the series. There are no Dark Ages and no Black Deaths. Though Meier claims that history as we know it is only “one path,” the only path in the Civilization series is forward. Each civilization charts a course ahead by leaping from one scientific discovery to the next. “The tech tree represents a certain kind of optimism, the idea that we are constantly progressing,” Meier said. “It’s true, we don’t represent the Dark Ages in the game. It’s an optimist, progress-based view.” The game unfolds in a manner that echoes the Enlightenment-era belief in progress as a universal rule, as well as the Darwinian notion that societies, like species, evolved from states of simplicity to greater levels of complexity and sophistication. [..] the game is constrained by what its makers know. In ploughing their own course forward, every civilization can only arrive at the same destination, the same sequence of discoveries: the forging of Western modernity. [..] You may start off as a Viking marauder or an Aztec king or a Mongol warlord, but as you develop your civilization into the proliferating complexities of the modern era, the more it begins to resemble contemporary America. [..] The series imagines the history and future of humanity as one defined by the contest of discrete civilizations. Ideologies (including capitalism and communism) come and go, but the rise and fall of competing civilizations is eternal. Civilization would not be nearly as appealing to its millions of players if it wasn’t promoting that competition. Nor do its players take the game’s rendition of the world literally. But a serious game deserves to be taken seriously."