The Being of Subversive and Fukuyama and The End of Time
I have recently been re-reading the book that started me on this path of understanding worlviews, changing cultures, missional faith, postmodern incarnations of people and faith: Subversive Christianity.
The book has a great deal to do with Christian beliefs involving socio-polical thought from an academic yet practical point of reference. A preface to the quote, Wash has been discussing that there is a larger histrical process at work and that these events are on not accidental or contingent but that they point to something essential in time.
He goes on to say, "'...the century that began full of self-confidence in the ultimate triumph of the Western Liberal democracy seems at its close to be ruturning full circle to where it started...to an unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism.' The winner in this historical process is not simply the economic and military power of the West, but, more importantly, this historical process demonstrates the victory of the Western idea, evident first 'in the tita exhausting of viable systematic alternative to Western liberalism', and second'in the ineluctiable spread of consumerist Western culture'"
Later he says, "The end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the univeralization of Western liberal democracy as teh final form of human government."
We live in a time where the western liberal idea and action of culture has nearly dominated the entire world. We, western liberal democrats, believe our socio-political beliefs are the height of human history, and it may be. But what is next?
What will the future of socio-political thought, what will supercede the consumer capitalist whore that has made its "rounds" to the world and the addictive nectar of its breasts have led us to where we sit today. A world saturated with selfish abandon, greed, the phrase keeping up with the Jones no longer apply, as we are swept up trying to keep up with the Jones', Smiths', Walters'....
This consumer capitalist agenda has led to the self-medication through buying power. Those with greater buying power "seem" to be better, they have just self medicated more.
So a couple questions, how do we stop this trend towards greater and greater self-medicating? How do we live a life of less consumer addiction?
Next, what is the future of Socio=political thought, what way humanity will succeed our current capitalist democray. Clearly it is not Communism, definitely not divine right, so I have to imagine that it will be something new, something different, a reaction to this current capitalism.
At this current point in my journey I have been reading a great deal to read the signs and better understand what the future holds, but I have no conclusive understanding. If anyone has any suggestions offer them up, as I am curious to see where other are at.
The book has a great deal to do with Christian beliefs involving socio-polical thought from an academic yet practical point of reference. A preface to the quote, Wash has been discussing that there is a larger histrical process at work and that these events are on not accidental or contingent but that they point to something essential in time.
He goes on to say, "'...the century that began full of self-confidence in the ultimate triumph of the Western Liberal democracy seems at its close to be ruturning full circle to where it started...to an unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism.' The winner in this historical process is not simply the economic and military power of the West, but, more importantly, this historical process demonstrates the victory of the Western idea, evident first 'in the tita exhausting of viable systematic alternative to Western liberalism', and second'in the ineluctiable spread of consumerist Western culture'"
Later he says, "The end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the univeralization of Western liberal democracy as teh final form of human government."
We live in a time where the western liberal idea and action of culture has nearly dominated the entire world. We, western liberal democrats, believe our socio-political beliefs are the height of human history, and it may be. But what is next?
What will the future of socio-political thought, what will supercede the consumer capitalist whore that has made its "rounds" to the world and the addictive nectar of its breasts have led us to where we sit today. A world saturated with selfish abandon, greed, the phrase keeping up with the Jones no longer apply, as we are swept up trying to keep up with the Jones', Smiths', Walters'....
This consumer capitalist agenda has led to the self-medication through buying power. Those with greater buying power "seem" to be better, they have just self medicated more.
So a couple questions, how do we stop this trend towards greater and greater self-medicating? How do we live a life of less consumer addiction?
Next, what is the future of Socio=political thought, what way humanity will succeed our current capitalist democray. Clearly it is not Communism, definitely not divine right, so I have to imagine that it will be something new, something different, a reaction to this current capitalism.
At this current point in my journey I have been reading a great deal to read the signs and better understand what the future holds, but I have no conclusive understanding. If anyone has any suggestions offer them up, as I am curious to see where other are at.
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