There are historical moments where being an activist is good and others where it is not; when the cause you serve and the great evil you fight both have to be manufactured out of jargon, you are not living in one of the former moments
The most parsimonious explanation for the sudden recrudescence of hyperbole and hysteria over identity remains "the terminal boredom at the end of history"
The antidote that Fukuyama fully anticipated at the outset was to manufacture cosplay versions of the titanic struggles of those still embedded within history https://tr.uow.edu.au/uow/file/c1e8a018-b551-452a-94c1-f681ed92a4c5/1/fukuyama-1989-1-18.pdf
There is a line of work for those with a thimbleful of historical knowledge, usually Wikipedia-powered, and who lack all sense of proportion and intellectual conscience, to fuel the delusional fantasies of those beset by nostalgia for the conflicts of the past
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