A morning reflection

[dianeduane]

Remember this?

The [White House] 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.''
 

Well... it would appear that (at least at the local level) you can only insult the inherent dignity of reality and stretch the patience of the physical universe so far. And then...

Comments

[ma-feathers.livejournal.com]

I travel a lot into Canada for work. for the past year, Canadians would look at me pleadingly, begging me (either actually or implicitly) to tell them that Obama would win.

It's wonderful to know that my certitude was right. And I've already received a dozen calls of congratulations from my Canadian clients.

Yes we can. YES WE DID!

And yes, we will -- remain united in returning this country to what it was meant to be by the Founding Fathers.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Seems like progress is being made. In fits, starts, crawls and the occasional leap, too.

Thanks again.