End of History?! My response would be ...

Having re-read Fukuyama's article I still find still myself baffled in front of the question of "the end of history?" I like to believe that man is a being that is destined to perpetually evolve in every aspect, even when it comes to ideologies. And the fact that we have not seen any ideologies taking over the world lately does not mean that there are none, it just means that the critical mass of people needed to do that has not yet been reached. True, democracy as an idea and a system has been adopted by the most of the world, but does that really count when different governments have a different interpretation of it, thus making the terms "individual freedom" and "inclusive society" so relative? There is one thing for sure, though, the spreading of western liberal democracy has been put on hold by the powerful authocracy of China. And this year China even got the chance to demonstrate its power by holding the Olympics! ... This means that liberal democracy still has a long way to go before it becomes the ultimate political and economic ideology of humankind, so "the End of History" might be a little further away than what Fukuyama anticipated.