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When Francis Fukuyama said "the end of history" he meant that liberal democracy is the evolutionary end point of nation states. Meaning:

1. any nation state that is now a liberal democracy will remain so because there is nothing more advanced for it to evolve into

2. any nation state that is not a liberal democracy is merely not yet a liberal democracy and will eventually evolve into one

The singularity is the point at which rate of technological evolution becomes so rapid that it is essentially incomprehensible. That doesn't sound like an end of history notion to me.



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