Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

[jack_ryder]

I can't get through the New York Times registration at the moment, so here's the relevant passage cribbed from BoingBoing

Author and former WSJ national affairs reporter Ron Suskind has a riveting piece in this weekend's New York Times Magazine.

"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

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.'"

With our thoughts, we make the world...

Comments

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Wow. What a quote.

Meanwhile, you can always got to http://www.bugmenot.com/ to get logins for free sites if you haven't seen that.

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

I tried Bugmenot, but it wasn't working (at least I couldn't reach it from UTS.)

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Try

biasedashell
dncshill

(!)

[jack-ryder.livejournal.com]

I can now reach BugMeNot but none of the regos (including yours are working)

Maureen Down references this piece in her column in today's SMH (another paper that requires registration)

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm having no trouble with my usual account on either, if that's any consolation...

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