1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future?

*Twenty years, that's a good long time. For instance, the entire period Poland spent under Communism was only 45 years.

*If history ended in 1989, there are now 20 year old adults around who were born after the end of history and can probably kick the ass of any Marxists or any elderly triumphal liberal-capitalist historians.

*The distance between 1968 and 1989 was only 21 years. If we had another 1989 next year — after another economic shock, let's say — would that be a big miraculous s...