CIV and the End of History

History is a narrative, and narratives ordinarily have endpoints. Civilization as a series, as iterations of this narrative, and as a game, by design has to have its history “end.”

Something I’ve attempted to highlight in this broader series is that our telling of history is precisely that, a telling, a narrative, and as such, the ways we tell history deserve critique and inspection.
One of the features of narrativization that seeps its way into our consciousness is that history has an endpoint. And so we come to Fukuyama.
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00:00 Intro
02:31 The End of History
14:17 The End of Civilization (the game)
21:16 The End of Narratives
28:32 The End of the End
32:13 The End (Outro)
33:53 secret
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Source for the map (if you still play Civ 3 and haven't heard about it) is
Kal El’s 180x180 Earth:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/thread...


This video is dedicated to the brave barbarian line infantry and their struggle against the British GDR in the Arabian plains.

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