Cold War 2.0

"The End of History and the Last Man" is the title of Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book celebrating the victory of capitalism over communism after a decades long fight between these opposing ideologies.

_{source: Wikimedia Commons}

The Cold War had finally ended in the late 1980s and made "official" by tearing down the Berlin Wall, and the capitalist west had won;

More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in a celebration that was, one journalist wrote, "the greatest street party in the history of the world." People used hammers and picks to knock away chunks of the wall–they became known as "mauerspechte," or "wall woodpeckers"-while cranes and bulldozers pulled down section after section. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. "Only today," one Berliner spray-painted on a piece of the wall, "is the war really over."
_{source: History.com}

Fukuyama and many other (neo-) liberal thinkers shared this sentiment and "The End Of History" was all about how we had reached the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government, the liberal democracy we all know so well; a form of government in which representative democracy operates under the principles of classical liberalism, with an emphasis on "economic freedom." Well, Thomas More (Utopia) and Marx (communism) also had their ideas about some ideal end-station for human progress, and if they were wrong, what on Earth would make anyone think Fukuyama is right? He was, and still is wrong, of course, yet his book was a huge bestseller.

Not only was he wrong about defeating Marx's ideas, but he was even wrong, and we all were wrong about the Cold War having ended at all; we're currently fighting a Cold War 2.0. Please watch the linked video, a short (ten minute) talk by Simon Sinek in which he analyses our current geopolitical situation by means of finite and infinite games in game theory; I found it fascinating, as I hope you will too:

_{What game theory teaches us about war | Simon Sinek}

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