Tip-Off #154 - A Bold Promise
"The peril of democracy is its promise: without discord, it would not be necessary." - after James Madison, Federalist No. 10.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, political philosopher Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed “the end of history,” meaning the triumph of liberal democracy as the ultimate political system. Yet many overlooked his more nuanced conclusion: this could bring about what Nietzsche called “the last man”—a state where humanity, freed f…
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