"Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead."
The medium is the metaphor.
沙漠之所以美丽，是因为在某个角落藏着一口井。
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.