Francis Fukayama has a new book out. Same story different decade for the “End of History” author.
Chimpanzees are naturally warlike. That was the big science story last week. Previous thinking had been they learned it from humans! Nope. Our closest evolutionary cousins war on each other for “benefits.” It’s a trait unique to the two species. It’s like discretionary cannibalism among Chinese, it’s done because it tastes good; it’s done because they can, not because they have to.
Vladimir Putin is a chimpanzee.
Chimps war on each other for some of the same reasons humans do—for more resources, more territory, more sex. More. They’re not starving, homeless or without orgasms. They want more. “We hold these truths to be self-evident…That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” “Fuck her right in the pussy!” Power, too. “Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus.”
“Might makes right.”
Do chimpanzees know it is wrong to kill discretionarily? No. Wrong, right, hell, heaven, morality—those notions are unique to one species.
The air was so fresh, so clean in spring 1989 it tasted like wine. Heady days. Intoxicating. The Soviet Union and all its walls crumbled in that air. Not the People’s Republic of China and all its walls. The end of history ended in Tiananmen Square; history continued.
A fatwa was issued against Salmon Rushdie in 1989, just a few months before Fukayama’s essay first appeared. History never came to Islam, neither its end. “The Clash of Civilizations” was written in response to “The End of History.”
Capitalism for chimpanzees. Wherever there is capitalism there are clashes. Capitalism is naturally expansive. Capitalism pursues. Like the mythology of the shark capitalism must keep moving or it dies. A corporation not growing is a dead corporation. That is the inherent contradiction of capitalism. It is unnatural. In nature things do not grow continuously; in nature the cessation of growth is called maturity, it is not called death.
Capitalism has bloody borders. Capitalism knows no borders. For multi-national corporations when the domestic market is exhausted the corporation must look abroad. It must grow. Construction of the first McDonald’s in Moscow began in 1989. Where there is capitalism there will be clashes.
Everything is never quite enough. Channeling his inner chimpanzee man restrains the chimp within with morality via religion, with morality via law. "I wish you enough." They are all unnatural. Ask the chimp.
Chimpanzees are naturally warlike. That was the big science story last week. Previous thinking had been they learned it from humans! Nope. Our closest evolutionary cousins war on each other for “benefits.” It’s a trait unique to the two species. It’s like discretionary cannibalism among Chinese, it’s done because it tastes good; it’s done because they can, not because they have to.
Vladimir Putin is a chimpanzee.
Chimps war on each other for some of the same reasons humans do—for more resources, more territory, more sex. More. They’re not starving, homeless or without orgasms. They want more. “We hold these truths to be self-evident…That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” “Fuck her right in the pussy!” Power, too. “Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus.”
“Might makes right.”
Do chimpanzees know it is wrong to kill discretionarily? No. Wrong, right, hell, heaven, morality—those notions are unique to one species.
The air was so fresh, so clean in spring 1989 it tasted like wine. Heady days. Intoxicating. The Soviet Union and all its walls crumbled in that air. Not the People’s Republic of China and all its walls. The end of history ended in Tiananmen Square; history continued.
A fatwa was issued against Salmon Rushdie in 1989, just a few months before Fukayama’s essay first appeared. History never came to Islam, neither its end. “The Clash of Civilizations” was written in response to “The End of History.”
Capitalism for chimpanzees. Wherever there is capitalism there are clashes. Capitalism is naturally expansive. Capitalism pursues. Like the mythology of the shark capitalism must keep moving or it dies. A corporation not growing is a dead corporation. That is the inherent contradiction of capitalism. It is unnatural. In nature things do not grow continuously; in nature the cessation of growth is called maturity, it is not called death.
Capitalism has bloody borders. Capitalism knows no borders. For multi-national corporations when the domestic market is exhausted the corporation must look abroad. It must grow. Construction of the first McDonald’s in Moscow began in 1989. Where there is capitalism there will be clashes.
Everything is never quite enough. Channeling his inner chimpanzee man restrains the chimp within with morality via religion, with morality via law. "I wish you enough." They are all unnatural. Ask the chimp.
