Posted by sigismund on May 3, 2010, at 1:38:51 [reposted on May 4, 2010, at 11:07:43 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Everything I've Read, posted by sigismund on May 3, 2010, at 1:07:07
It comes back to that famous (but not famous enough) quote of Karl Rove told to Ron Suskind -
The aide [now known to be Karl Rove] said that guys like me [writer Ron Suskind] 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. Thats not the way the world really works anymore, he continued. Were an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while youre studying that reality judiciously, as you will well act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and thats how things will sort out. Were historys actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
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