Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

[@lesilluminations1]

True galaxy brain.

[@cameronmichaelkeys]

I'm convinced Fukuyama uses cognitive enhancement biotechnologies. Impressive, even manic, but so reasonable.

[@Cordialis]

@EZkill25l7 Thanks. I was very surprised to see a university using undated sources. Way out of line there...

[@sash2600]

Ashoka, one of the Mauryan kings, ruled over a vast area of the Indian subcontinent for some period. So Maurya was not a transgenerational pan Indian empire. The Guptas were chiefly one of the northern Indian kingdoms, and no serious historian would call them a pan-Indian empire. The Mughals, by all accounts, had a pan-Indian empire spanning generations. So the only thing I knew well, this guy got all wrong. And that makes me wonder how accurate his story of the Chinese and Europeans is. This happens when you start building grand theories spanning the entire world and millennia. The fact that you're not even a historian also doesn't help.

[@Cordialis]

What year was this lecture, please? This April or is it older than that?

[@synon9m]

to this day, no one knows

[@fringeelements]

Somalia isn't a failed state. It's a stateless society that has actually improved but is harassed by imposter UN-backed govts and muslim fanatics. Somalia has improved in spite of interventionist busybodies doing all the damage they can trying to "get them to denmark".