{"id":5357,"date":"2011-02-10T22:28:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T22:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2011-02-10T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T22:28:24","slug":"remember-the-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/remember-the-babes\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the babes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5358\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Image2x.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5358\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5358 \" title=\"Image2x\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Image2x-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Image2x-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Image2x.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2005&#39;s Hope<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m old enough to remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/000813.html\">&#8220;babe revolution&#8221;<\/a> of 2005. How&#8217;d that work out? I know that most of my contemporaries are closely following events in Egypt while I&#8217;m busy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genetics.ucla.edu\/software\/admixture\/\">running genetic analyses<\/a>. Today a friend started IMing me about whatever is happening now in Egypt. I really can&#8217;t follow the latest zig or zag, and simply responded, &#8220;Talk to me about this in 10 years.&#8221; My friend laughed, but that that&#8217;s a major issue here: <strong>people get caught up in revolutionary fervor as if hope and a dream can actually effect long term change.<\/strong> They can not. You need some major preconditions for a liberal democratic society to be robust to the natural shocks of the world in which we live. I wish the Egyptians well, but what is happening now in Lebanon is a predictable outcome of the structural realities of the religious demography of that nation, and its persistent and chronic sectarianism. The details may differ (e.g., the current alliance between a Maronite faction with the Shia), but the general framework has been invariant for decades. Egyptians will remain <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/03\/secular-egyptian-muslims-are-like-christian-reconstructionists\/\">Egyptians<\/a>, even if democracy dawns. And that, unfortunately, is a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m old enough to remember the &#8220;babe revolution&#8221; of 2005. How&#8217;d that work out? I know that most of my contemporaries are closely following events in Egypt while I&#8217;m busy running genetic analyses. Today a friend started IMing me about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/remember-the-babes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}