re: #824 Flyers1974

Found it…the quote from the presidential aide (circa 2004) about “we create our own reality”:

…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.” … “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.”

Well, he got one part right. We’re all left to study what they did.

As harebrained as his spiel sounds in retrospect, I imagine it’s easy to underestimate the almost evangelical attraction something like that has, when an articulate person is saying it to you, with zeal in their eye.