Just want to point out the context of that Fukuyama quote The following paragraph in particular (It's from a paper where he does the "both nationalism and cosmopolitanism are wrong and the truth is somewhere in the middle" thing)

Why is the election still a toss-up? We asked the 15 stupidest people in America www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Für Kleinbeträge

Symptoms include dissenting from prevalent norms and rejecting dissent Wait what

That shit tank won't last more than a week anyway

🎶Do you hear the people sing?🎶

I was a teenager back then, probably not in the right headspace for it ^^

And 2 decades later, my go-to-metaphor for the German media landscape is that we're Goodbye,-Kohl-ing our population.

Watching Goodbye, Lenin in an empty theater, running through the aisles out of boredom

It's Age of Empires/ Civilization video game brain Peoples are the subject of history, people don't matter. People who live in an area are irrelevant unless they are connected to a metaphysical essence of a nation.