If readers think this piece will now devolve into another Francis Fukuyama bashing exercise, they are absolute correct. We cannot let “The End of History” steal all the limelight. Francis Fukuyama has produced other stinkers as well and the long-forgotten “Trust” has aged just as poorly.
What is it with Fukuyama assigning these "public trust levels" to different nations though? I find it laughable that he seems to correlate low trust with family enterprises and then associates Japan with high trust, as if its economy weren't in the hands of a few family-owned conglomerates
If readers think this piece will now devolve into another Francis Fukuyama bashing exercise, they are absolute correct.
I require more of this
According to Fukuyama, impersonalistic Germans, Japanese and Americans could operate at ultra-high levels of social trust, allowing large corporations to form organically, while familistic peoples like Chinese and Italians need state intervention to form meaningfully large enterprises. Russians, with neither deep familial bonds nor liberal values, removed into mafia mayhem in the absence of a strong state.
Leave it to Fukuyama to come up with race science even stupider than phrenology. At least you can take objective measurements of skull shapes.
Also yeah, I went back to China for the first time in 5 or so years recently and the vibe in Shanghai was very different. My parents who live in China also commented on how good service had gotten recently.
Also yeah, I went back to China for the first time in 5 or so years recently and the vibe in Shanghai was very different. My parents who live in China also commented on how good service had gotten recently.
That shit is so wild from a sociological standpoint.
Also yeah, I went back to China for the first time in 5 or so years recently and the vibe in Shanghai was very different.
Effect of covid maybe? The lockdown was a pretty dire time but I've never seen neighbourly solidarity like I did in my xiaoqu over those three months.
Fukuyama is one of the most ridiculous western propagandists by a long shot 🤣
