Fukuyama: Rubio quoted my theory without knowing what he was talking about / Why does the US Secretary of State's praise of "supremacy" pave the way for fascism and destruction?

The recent speech of the Secretary of State of the United States at Penox in Athens regarding the praise of "thymos" (spirit of chivalry, pride and desire for superiority) as the gem of Western civilization, was met with a critical and explicit reaction from the main designer of this theory in the contemporary era; A detailed review in which the famous American philosopher and theoretician, while enumerating the fundamental errors of the White House diplomacy, warned that Rubio's blind glorification of supremacy and exceptional people is a double-edged sword.

According to Ambassador Arjan, Francis Fukuyama, a senior researcher at Stanford University and a prominent theorist of political science, wrote in an analytical note on the Persuasion website that it seems that one of the text writers of Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has plagiarized his works; Because in his speech on October 16 (October 7) in Athens, he placed the Greek concept of "Thymos" as the central value of Western civilization, but presented a completely reduced, incomplete and dangerous understanding of it.

In his words, Rubio claimed that for the ancient Greeks, the organization of civil life was based on competition, ambition, and the victory of great men in the fields of philosophy, art, and war, and without this rebellious flame and desire for superiority, nations lose the will to survive and fight.

Fukuyama states that although the concept of thymus, meaning the desire to be seen, to be honored and to recognize one's place, plays a vital role in politics, Rubio has failed to understand its dual and destructive nature.

The battle of the first humans over domination and recognition led to the emergence of lord and serf systems, which ultimately did not please either side; While the historical response to this crisis was the establishment of an order based on "equality of human dignity" (isothymia) in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of the French Revolution and the amendments to the United States Constitution, which respects the fundamental dignity of all human beings.

Separation of isothymia and megalothymia; The thin line between progress and tyranny

Recalling his classic book "The End of History and the Last Man", this American philosopher explains that the thymus is divided into two separate branches: "isothymia", which is the demand for equality and the basis of any stable democracy, and "megalothymia", which is the desire to be superior to other people.

Fukuyama emphasizes that he has bifacial pink megalothymia; At the same time, this force can be the origin of artistic masterpieces and economic progress, or the source of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind.

If George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill were fueled by megalomania, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Pol Pot were driven by the same sentiment.

The main difficulty of democracies is that, although they need this drive for progress and sacrifice, they must harness it in the service of the interests of the whole society, rather than becoming, like Rubio, an absolute admirer of coercion and domination.

Trump; The embodiment of unbridled megalothymia and the praise of bloodshed in history

In another part of this analysis, Fukuyama describes the character of the current American president as a symbol of unbridled arrogance.

He points out that in the 1990s, he thought that capitalism could discharge this hegemonic spirit in the context of business, but he did not foresee that Donald Trump, the president of the United States, would enter the political arena after accumulating wealth and demand total sovereignty.

Trump is the perfect example of unrestrained megalothymia who doesn't care who praises him; He is eager to get his face on Mount Rushmore and win a Nobel Peace Prize, and he recently showed celebrity journalist Maggie Haberman a list of his admired historical rulers that included Genghis Khan, Attila, Napoleon, Mao and Stalin, without even a single Democratic statesman on it.

The author of the article adds that Rubio's desire to serve Trump has made him swing the truth like a chopstick; Because on the one hand, Rubio talks about common transatlantic values with Europe, and on the other hand, he works for a leadership that openly praises Putin and Xi Jinping more than Western democracies.

Also, the US Secretary of State praises the scientific prosperity of the West while his government has destroyed research funds and considers the deal on Greenland an achievement without saying that Washington was trying to swallow the independent territory of Denmark.

Fukuyama warns Rubio that it was this excess of pride and megalomania that led Alcibiades and the Athenians to the disastrous campaign in Sicily and, according to Thucydides, destroyed Athens in the Peloponnesian War; Therefore, he should remember the fundamental line of the Declaration of Independence regarding the equality of all men, because this principle, and not the honoring of autocratic men, has been the true essence of America throughout the centuries.