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'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 jud

'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." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. [...] 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'

GW150914 8y ago
Well that totally doesn’t sound like someone with a personality disorder. /s I’m fairly sure that history will almost instantly forget them, because they exist to be disposable, to be replaced, and as interest and attention moves on their “mark” on history will be exceedingly shallow. Maybe that’s the difference between this constructed “reality” and... reality. Something real can be lasting, while this cotton candy version of reality only seems substantial from a certain angle, for a little while. It’s a kind of shallow “reality” for shallow people with minuscule attention spans.
- gammatrigono 8y ago
  People should be allowed to have fun, right?
- FooHentai 8y ago
  Unfortunately you're categorically wrong, since the aide in question was Karl Rove.
  - GW150914 8y ago
    Well at least I nailed the personality disorder bit.
CPLX 8y ago
That’s from an old article about Bush in the Iraq war era. I think it’s Rove being quoted. Could be wrong. I think about that quote a lot, it’s seared in my memory. At the time I remember it was a rallying cry, people used it to define themselves as in “the reality based community” online a lot back then. But now that I am a little clearer on what he was actually saying, and how true it was, it’s taken on a darker tone.
- FooHentai 8y ago
  Yep I'm the same. When I first read it some years ago, it didn't ring true but did stick with me. Over time it appears more true. The implications are unpleasant, and I think that's why there's a strong urge to reject it. But, ironically, it isn't false just because I want it to be.

GW150914 8y ago

Well that totally doesn’t sound like someone with a personality disorder. /s I’m fairly sure that history will almost instantly forget them, because they exist to be disposable, to be replaced, and as interest and attention moves on their “mark” on history will be exceedingly shallow. Maybe that’s the difference between this constructed “reality” and... reality. Something real can be lasting, while this cotton candy version of reality only seems substantial from a certain angle, for a little while. It’s a kind of shallow “reality” for shallow people with minuscule attention spans.

gammatrigono 8y ago
People should be allowed to have fun, right?
FooHentai 8y ago
Unfortunately you're categorically wrong, since the aide in question was Karl Rove.
- GW150914 8y ago
  Well at least I nailed the personality disorder bit.

CPLX 8y ago

That’s from an old article about Bush in the Iraq war era. I think it’s Rove being quoted. Could be wrong. I think about that quote a lot, it’s seared in my memory. At the time I remember it was a rallying cry, people used it to define themselves as in “the reality based community” online a lot back then. But now that I am a little clearer on what he was actually saying, and how true it was, it’s taken on a darker tone.

FooHentai 8y ago
Yep I'm the same. When I first read it some years ago, it didn't ring true but did stick with me. Over time it appears more true. The implications are unpleasant, and I think that's why there's a strong urge to reject it. But, ironically, it isn't false just because I want it to be.