Via Mark Steyn I see that Francis Fukuyama thinks the end of history will look a lot more like the EU than the US.
I believe that the European Union more accurately reflects what the world will look like at the end of history than the contemporary United States. The EU's attempt to transcend sovereignty and traditional power politics by establishing a transnational rule of law is much more in line with a "post-historical" world than the Americans' continuing belief in God, national sovereignty, and their military.
Unlike Steyn I think Fukuyama is probably right. Unlike Fukuyama I think that the US model is the more likely path to the end of history, while the EU model is most likely a path to the ashheap of history. The EU is behaving as though the end of history is already here and has given up the struggle before it's done.
Update: Wretchard makes the much the same point.
It doesn't make much sense to plan on living in a "post-historical" world unless one can exist an historical world. But maybe the EU plans on leaving history to the United States while it waits patiently, having missed the Worker's Paradise, for the next scheduled mothership.
