Fukuyama refrains from a valuation of the story that “ends” in liberal democracy. Besides gesturing at Nietzche’s contemptuous “men without backs” last-man archetype, he simply indicates that there IS a secular component to political/spiritual evolution. It’s not just cyclic.
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Cryptography might create new political freedoms, but this isn’t some trivial extension of economic affordances like blockchain voting. What new freedom does it create and how does it organize the collective use of that freedom? What’s the new freedom literacy?
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My favorite candidate new freedom that could be organized by new political models is mobility. Live/travel freely anywhere in the world. My preferred post-democratic human condition would solve for vastly enhanced mobility.
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About ~60% or more humans live in meaningful democracies today iirc. But only 3% of humans travel beyond national borders today. The tech problem is zero-carbon transport. The economic problem is making it orders of magnitude cheaper. The political problem is open borders.
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I feel quite strongly that 3D graphics, esp. when used in actual 3D, is one of these breakthroughs. Indeed, any major update to our basic frame of reference, and what can be mapped to and from it, triggers (ahem) seismic shifts in social organization.
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