"The [Bush] 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.'"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3822
2007-01-26 08:20:12 · 6 answers · asked by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Wow! What hubris! And what naivete! And what enormous egos! Here's a quote that I think sums all this up: "They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess
they had made." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2007-01-26 08:35:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Oh my god, I was thinking of that quote while I was lying in bed this morning. I'm not kidding. I had a dream and preminision of being attacked again. And, this time it was done covertly by Cheney's orders and it was a full scale nuclear bomb. I woke up and immediately thought of that quote you wrote out. It is so strange that you bring it up because of this dream and preminision. But I kept thinking of it because of it's overall implications and to what extent it could mean. I gave me shivers to read it again. i personally find the callousness and the arrogance and the sense of superiorty in which it was said very frightening. I know these people really want to go down in history, but to what extent I think we have yet to see and that is what scares me. I'm not usually one to feel fear at anything, but the consequences of this arrogance, callousness and sense of superiority makes me really stop dead in my tracks.
Thank you for posting that quote. I think it is really important.
Also, doesn't it kind of remind you of Hitler's "Will to power"
or was that Neitzche, I forget.
Rachel G. that's a great quote. Thanks for posting that too.
2007-01-26 08:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Reading quotes like that make me hate myself even more for being a Nader supporter in 2000. What was I thinking!?!
2007-01-26 08:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by brooks b 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It amazes me how these people were able to be elected. That is some scary ****.
2007-01-26 08:35:18 · answer #4 · answered by sydb1967 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
and what is your point? I agree with the aide.
history is made every minute.
2007-01-26 08:36:50 · answer #5 · answered by slabsidebass 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
which idiot said those things.
2007-01-26 09:11:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋