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

Uwe Boll

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Hey, Diane, did Boll get this idea from you? :-)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/technology/news/e3ie0a24a92e254fef976e4b9b8a1a09a90

Re: Uwe Boll

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* That's what I get for not clicking through the Google searches. For the number of hits I was getting on http://www.google.com/search?q=uwe+boll+"Ring+of+the+nibelung", it's an understandable mistake. Maybe.