The end of history. History itself is in its essence finite, because affiliated to beyng. The end of history will break in when history perishes on its own. That will occur when the bombast pertaining to history is applied to history itself.
What is insidious in a bombastic age (cf. the late Roman civilization) is not that everything there is mere bombast and noise, that only through these means does anything count as “actual”—instead, it is that through these means provision is made for what alone shall remain in historical “recollection,” namely, precisely everything that satisfies this bombast. (HEIDEGGER, Martin. Ponderings II–VI. Black Notebooks 1931–1938 (GA94). Tr. Richard Rojcewicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016, Ponderings IV, 270)