re: #216 ckkatz

You reminded me of this ‘gem’ from the shrub administration. Which I believe to be a formula for disaster.

In a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine, Suskind wrote:

“The [Bush Administration] 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.’ […] ‘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’.”

The Bush quote is almost too perfect, too on the nose, to be 100% accurate.