Well, given the outpouring of enthusiasm for all things Obama here on the P-Club, it's not surprising that some ponies have jumped the fence and started to feel a little jaded. So I present for your delectation a sample of vintage Bush Whitehouse thinking by way of the N.Y.T Magazine of 2004. Ron Suskin was interviewing an unnamed individual working in the Whitehouse at that time:
“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’.”*
Of course we cannot forsee the future - and who knows, given a few years we might find anything has happened, (Blair was indeed a tragic disappointment on a massive scale [although if you look hard enough on the left people will tell you the same about Trotsky]). However, with any luck this may represent a return to the edges of, oh I don't know, "the reality based community", or something like that...
-Bluecupboard (voting with my hooves)
*
Ron Suskin “Without a Doubt,” The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004.
I came by way of this from a great essay by Steve Rushton, Masters of Reality The Media of Stimulus and Response,which is available on his weblog here if you want something to get your teeth into...
