All the above patterns put on history assume an end. All the three stage theories described above have already been shown false, and it is reasonable to assume that liberal, democratic capitalism is not an end to history as Fukuyama would have it but an organization of society that will be succeeded by other organizations of society. The end of history may be a metaphor for the afterlife. Many religions, not all, believe in an afterlife. Hell is terrifying but exciting, lakes of fire and ice, voluptuous nudes tortured by grinning devils, the damned telling visitors how they got there, bodies falling through infinity and water that recedes when you try to drink it.
Most heavens are boring.
The end of history is boring also. It will come when there are no more humans to write it. The Pursuit of the Millennium . Carver, Craig M. A History of English in Its Own Words . A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English 2nd ed.