“To hope for the end of history is human. To expect it to happen is unrealistic. To plan for it is disastrous.” (Huntington, 43) These are the closing sentences in Samuel Huntington’s critical response to Francis Fukuyama’s essay on “the end of history.” The theory of endism, hypothesized by Fukuyama, is not convincing because he over looks the challenges presented, ignores the proceedings in much of the world and doesn’t account for natural …showed first 75 words of 1926 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1926 total…its current path until we hit some sort of universal barrier from which no one can continue; like nuclear war, a complete depletion of water or oil, a major climate change, or a biological disaster. Then, the world community will have no choice but to join together with our diverse problem solving strategies to come up with a solution and a new style of living. *Betts, Richard. Conflict After the Cold War. Needham Heights, MA. 1994