1990 AMERICAN THINK TANK PUNDITS WERE CROWING ABOUT THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN

What an everloving bunch of stupid idiots!

Fukuyama, essay 1989, book 1992.

Call it The Fukuyama Fallacy.

But no, the fallacy kept on going for 25 more years!

Call it, now, The Pillsbury Fallacy. 

He actually tells you all about it, as a fallacy, himself: The Hundred-Year Marathon