Reality-Based Community
Why am I a proud member? Read Ron Suskind's NY Times Magazine article to find out.
The key paragraph:
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
posted by Little Hippocrat at 9:06 AM
1 Comments:
Very interesting concept exposed here: Bush, et al. act, we study, in what could be a never-ending cycle of stumblin', rumblin', bumblin' into the Twilight Zone.
It looks more like Bush and his cronies are doing whatever they want to do, regardless of consequences, damn the torpedoes! This arrogant attitude reveals one of the more important reasons to question Bush's actions and to get a more reality based president in the White House. If we stay the course, round the corner and keep forcefully imposing democratic ideals on populations that may or may not want or appreciate them, we will only have more unnecessary death and destruction in that wake.
One thing's for sure: I don't feel safer knowing this is a guiding principle in the White House...
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