I’ve never exactly known what this expression referred to.
Wikipedia reassures me that it has been in play at different times and different ways, namely, since the late 1800s and in the fields of history, economics, politics, and culture.
Francis Fukuyama used the term for the title of an essay in 1989 and then a book in 1992, perhaps fixing it more firmly in the minds of many. Apparently he suggests that the end of history, a settling into a single accepted socio-economic framework worldwide, will be a sad time. We won’t be animated by grand, different ideas of a better world. We will just tinker around the edges.
From what I gather, though, we aren’t there (yet?).
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