The decade of 1990s was an amazing epoch. Berlin wall was no more...Soviet Union had collapsed ending the cold war and MTV was all around and I was in Moscow. It was not only great political upheaval but also some great time for music. I had converted from popshi:
Because of all these amazingness of 1990s Fukuyama famously marked it as the end of history. This in itself a great thought and after such a melodious start of this write up I will solely dwell on this topic and prove that end of history did happen but not with the collapse of soviet union and other amazingness of 90s rather some 1500 odd years back in the deserts of Arabia.
Most modern scholars have a blind spot that they always miss. That blind spot is the eastern intelligence. They discount the history wisdom culture and art coming out of this region. Few who travel and mingle with the local culture understand the depth and width of knowledge.
In Fukuyama case calling end of cold war, collapse of Soviet Union and the victory of capitalism as the end of history has some very apparent holes that me a jack ass Mr nobody can easily point out (stealing a pet phrase of Jimmy Dore). Did Fukuyama not know about the technical problem with capitalism pointed out by Marx? But any ways...
In the deserts of Arabia (of all places) happened an event that I am calling was the true end of history. Its when through Prophet M(PM-PBUH) started to question the stupidities of people around and his close vicinity and he documented everything in a book named Q. The abbreviation is intentional for rebranding and so some opinionated people could at least listen. I will explore some of the many concepts mentioned by PM-PBUH and documented in the book Q had solved some key sore areas of the civilization of mankind without solving of which it cannot continue its further evolution.
For me the one which tops is the economics principle "give away more than what you need". It is kind of hard to understand this simple rule for people especially in the current world of consumerism big box stores overspending, credit cards and desire and lust and etcetera. I will try to explain to those dumb slow wits:
Imagine...there is an infinitely huge heap of apples. Everyone is allowed to take from it as much as they want. People are told this is a never ending heap so they better take what they can handle so that the extra they took is not wasted (rotted).
Still some people thinking this is just a ploy, fill up more than what they need or store and take more than their capacity to eat or store. But then they realize this is not a good strategy as they are not getting fresh apples everyday and the extra they took fearing the apples would finish are getting wasted and simply getting old and rotten when in fact they can just take how much they can eat everyday as the apples are not finishing they just keep coming. With time all the people adopt the same habits and everyone takes as per their needs. What a relaxing thought this is.
This is an analogy to understand the principle Give away more than what you need. Or not to keep more than what you need. This rule of micro and macro economics encompasses and beats in wisdom all the literatures and tomes of economics philosophy that humans have so far come up with. It not only takes care of the technical, logistical and economical issues of human civilizational living but also is important health wise as the extra becomes toxic for human health and makes them sick.
Then there are other concepts such as human evolution. The book Q discusses evolution before Darwin was just twinkle in the sky.
Gravitational force, centrifugal forces were discussed when Newton's England was in stone age and 900 years before Galileo.
Woman rights and hereditary laws were discussed when their clergy just gave them the value of man's left rib, they still do. Marriage settlement and alimony laws in 7th century makes todays world sound like we have gone in reverse.
The economics was discussed in couple of words that could encompass all world libraries combined. Capitalism was discussed when Marx Germany was a horde of barbarians.
The book Q was a code that was given to give a jump start to civilization so civilization could make leaps...explore this universe and solve the problems that Allama Mashraqi discusses in his Human problem essay.
Only if humans have explored this book of nature and adopted its laws and freed itself from the crutches and menaces of greed, imagine what could have happened by now. We could have been an interplanetary civilization by now. Probably have met new species in the universe and explored some more interesting problems to solve.
But it was not to be and this real end of history event was lost in forever human greed that Mel Gibson beautifully portrays in his flick Apocalypto:
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