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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
by neilv 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
- andai 4mo ago> 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. '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'.
- actionfromafar 4mo agoThe actors of the empire are dismantling said empire. It will be studied, not least by its adversaries.
- esafak 4mo agoI'm still waiting to hear that soliloquy in a movie.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoIt's pretty much a rewrite of a famous monologue in Network, for those who haven't seen that before. At least in tone and delivery.
- andai 4mo agohttps://youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs https://youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs
- foogazi 4mo agoDeserves to be named too
- parineum 4mo agoIt ruins the chance at dunking on the opposition but the key word is "discernable". It's reality as it appears to be to a person on the outside. Not actual reality.
- andai 4mo agoBush Admin was doing Hyperstition before it was cool B)
- Waterluvian 4mo ago> 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality‘ The American reality of stepping on rake after rake after rake. A gag that meanders repeatedly between funny and sad.