Comments on: Busy http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/03/09/busy/ Sociology and other distractions Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Drapetomaniac http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/03/09/busy/comment-page-1/#comment-648 Drapetomaniac Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=309#comment-648 That word is ‘hubris’. That's kind, I think. When I read some war-for-democracy blogger say, all that's left is to trust Bush and hope for the best, I was reminded how easy it is to run experiments on other people far, far way. That word is ‘hubris’.

That’s kind, I think. When I read some war-for-democracy blogger say, all that’s left is to trust Bush and hope for the best, I was reminded how easy it is to run experiments on other people far, far way.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2003/03/09/busy/comment-page-1/#comment-649 Kieran Healy Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.kieranhealy.org/wordpress/?p=309#comment-649 Like I said in a post below: democratic institutions are not like lizards. They don't hide under rocks waiting to emerge. It's interesting that political theorists like the OxBloggers are all in favor of war followed by the flowering of democracy in the Middle East, and that they really believe this will happen. I take it as a sign that they need to read more political sociology. In any event, I still don't believe that the Bush Administration has anything like the democracy-growing intensions -- let alone a detailed plan -- that so many warbloggers are prepared to attribute to them. Like I said in a post below: democratic institutions are not like lizards. They don’t hide under rocks waiting to emerge. It’s interesting that political theorists like the OxBloggers are all in favor of war followed by the flowering of democracy in the Middle East, and that they really believe this will happen. I take it as a sign that they need to read more political sociology. In any event, I still don’t believe that the Bush Administration has anything like the democracy-growing intensions—let alone a detailed plan—that so many warbloggers are prepared to attribute to them.

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