>history will end within your lifetime

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>>3322692
>the world will end in your lifetime

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>>3322692
>you will be rich enough to achieve immortality within your lifetime

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>the rapture will happen within your lifetime

>>3322692
What does it mean for history to end?

"In his Poverty of Philosophy, Marx wrote that bourgeois ideology loves to historicize: every social, religious, and cultural form is historical, contingent, relative—every form except its own. There was history once, but now there is no longer any history:
Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from God. When the economists say that present-day relations—the relations of bourgeois production— are natural, they imply that these are the relations in which wealth is created and productive forces developed in conformity with the laws of nature. These relations therefore are themselves natural laws independent of the influence of time. They are eternal laws which must always govern society. Thus, there has been history, but there is no longer any. There has been history, since there were the institutions of feudalism, and in these institutions of feudalism we find quite different relations of production from those of bourgeois society, which the economists try to pass off as natural and, as such, eternal.9
Replace “feudalism” with “socialism” and exactly the same holds true of today’s apologists for liberal-democratic capitalism.
No wonder the debate about the limits of liberal ideology is thriving in France—the reason is not the long statist tradition which distrusts liberalism; it is rather that the French distance towards the Anglo-Saxon mainstream enables not only a critical stance, but also a clearer perception of the basic ideological structure of liberalism.."
(Slavoj Zizek. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce) (1/2)

>>3323544
"..If one is looking for a clinically pure, laboratory-distilled version of contemporary capitalist ideology, one need only turn to Guy Sorman. The very title of an interview he recently gave in Argentina—“This Crisis Will Be Short Enough”10—signals that Sorman fulfils the basic demand liberal ideology has to satisfy with regard to the financial meltdown, namely, to renormalize the situation: “things may appear harsh, but the crisis will be short, it is just part of the normal cycle of creative destruction through which capitalism progresses.” Or, as Sorman himself put it in another of his texts, “creative destruction is the engine of economic growth”: “This ceaseless replacement of the old with the new—driven by technical innovation and entrepreneurialism, itself encouraged by good economic policies—brings prosperity, though those displaced by the process, who find their jobs made redundant, can understandably object to it.”11 (This renormalization, of course, co-exists with its opposite: the panic raised by the authorities in order to create a shock among the wider public—“the very fundamentals of our way of life are threatened!”—thereby preparing them to accept the proposed, obviously unjust, solution as inevitable.)"
(Slavoj Zizek. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce) (2/2)

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>the true human spirit had already been extinguished decades before you were even born

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>>3322692
History already ended in 1991

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>>3323827
>History already ended in 1991
>Born on the year history died
Feels bad man.

>>3322692
History ended 25 years ago.