Creating YOUR Reality for You!

If you never read another article on politics and foreign policy, then please read this one. The excerpt I’m going to quote here is attributed in the article to “an unnamed `senior advisor’ to President Bush:”

The aide said that guys like me [i.e., reporters and commentators] 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 can do no more in this particular forum than continue to point out the obvious to you. What you choose to do with it is your glory, or your shame.

Quote of the Day: There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be ‘the man in the street.’ Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology. — Josef Goebbels
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