Has anyone else read this statement from a
link within the link I cite above? This supposedly relates a statement from an aide in the Bush administration:
QUOTE
\"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.'\"
I don't know if his source is accurate (or exists at all), but it stuns me that the statement seems so perfectly reflective of the Bush administration and the worst sort of big corporation group-think.
The problem is that instead of creating a future based on the realities of the past, some want to imagine a different past and plan the future based on that.
Fundamentalists are a trip. They're more like history's falsifiers than its actors.