The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he then defined as “people who believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable 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 reality. And while you are 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.
-Ron Suskind of the New York Times Magazine on speaking to an unnamed senior adviser to G.W. Bush
Dilute – Explosion
Do Make Say Think – Horns Of A Rabbit
Nephews – Split The Dribble
Lymbyc Systym – Fall Bicycle
