Francis Fukuyama famously wrote about “The End of History” with the triumph of liberal democracy. He was premature. But the World Model might actually bring it about. Not the end of events, but the end of History with a capital H—the end of the grand, collective, agonistic narrative of humanity struggling toward something. When the model optimizes society, the great struggles—for justice, for freedom, for a better system—become engineering problems. They get solved. Then what?We enter The Afterparty of History. It’s awkward. Everyone is standing around with a drink, the epic music has stopped, and no one knows what to talk about. “So… we won? Now what?” All the old identities—revolutionary, reformer, pioneer, skeptic—are obsolete. We are all just… residents. Maintainers.This will create a profound narrative famine. We are storytelling creatures. We need a collective story to be part of. The model will try to provide them—personalized narratives of growth and challenge. But they will feel small, private, and ultimately meaningless compared to the grand struggles of the past. We will feel nostalgic for eras of injustice and war, because at least then, life had a clear plot.Our new epic might be The Management of Paradise. It’s not a great title. It lacks conflict. We will have to become a species that finds meaning not in overcoming external obstacles, but in the internal, infinite complexity of cultivating peace, beauty, and understanding. We will have to learn to live in the denouement.My controversial take is this: We will start re-enacting historical struggles as a form of therapeutic art. Not as lazy nostalgia, but as profound, participatory ritual. We will stage carefully managed “Revolutions” and “Great Depressions” and “Space Races” not to achieve anything, but to feel the shape of struggle again, to exercise those narrative muscles. They will be the ultimate hobby. The most sought-after experience will be to temporarily forget the model’s solutions and live for a week in a simulated 20th century, fighting for a cause you know is already won, just to remember what it feels like to have a world-historical purpose. History will become a sport we play to remember who we were.This has been The World Model Podcast. The challenge of the future won’t be winning the great game. It’ll be figuring out what to do after the trophy is on the shelf, forever. Subscribe now.