Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: A Resolute Fantasy World:
In the comments, shargash said:
"Throughout this national nightmare, I keep returning to the famous quote from a 'senior advisor to Bush' reported in Ron Suskind's article in the Times:
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.
There is something about that quote that just seems to nail what it is that is so screwed up about the current administration and congress. How do we get these people to return to reality, when they explicitly reject reality as something that is subjective and malleable?"
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