[Newspoetry] Re: Peter Folk's Comment of Thursday, June 13, 2002 5:56 PM

[Mike Lehman]

I'm sure it was Francis Fukuyama that Donald was speaking of here.
Fortunately, Donald is right far more often than Francis is.
Mike Lehman

Donald L Emerick wrote:

> (Indeed, what Fujiyama tried to say, a few years ago, could be taken
> inversely as this: the end of history has come upon the West because it
> refuses to believe that history is greater than the life of individuals who
> are caught up in the traps of history.  The people of the West are
> individuals who are caught in the traps of their own senses of slavery to
> modernity, because they refuse the new freedom which post-modernity wishes
> to launch (as it could found no ship as a building).)