tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087565.post111078658809055749..comments2023-10-24T07:06:36.815-07:00Comments on Small Precautions: Slower, pleaseNilshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04220861634503974376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087565.post-1110796899858679042005-03-14T02:41:00.000-08:002005-03-14T02:41:00.000-08:00More to the point, we can't accept the premise -- ...More to the point, we can't accept the premise -- on offer by the administration and not much doubted by the media -- that the isolated "victories" achieved were inseparable from the overall policy or agenda which led to them. We cannot be hostage to a way of thinking that demands us to assent to a policy or an overall agenda on the basis of a single good event or even a series of promising events. For that is to assume that they were available no other way than through the policy or agenda. The point, then, is perhaps not about slowing up or speeding down but about remembering the plurality of different directions there are in history. Backwards and forwards seriously underdescribes the options, and to accept those terms of reasoning is a mistake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com