Posted by fayeroe on August 4, 2010, at 19:05:05
In reply to Re: The Question Remains: Why Is Babble Not Babbling?, posted by sigismund on August 3, 2010, at 15:28:17
It comes back to that famous (but not famous enough) quote of Karl Rove told to Ron Suskind -
The aide [now known to be Karl Rove] said that guys like me [writer Ron Suskind] 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 are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own 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, actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
The above, my friend, I found on the Politics board where I had gone to post about Prop 8's being overturned by a federal judge...I will continue on my way now. P
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