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The Reality-Based Environment - Molly Ivins


open quote The Reality-Based Environment

By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted December 16, 2004.

Of all the problems that arise from having an administration that chooses not to believe in reality, the ones most likely to have disasterous consequences are environmental.

"The aide (a senior adviser to President Bush) 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." – Ron Suskind, New York Times Magazine, Oct. 17, 2004.

This is the quote that now has some noted bloggers identifying themselves as, "Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community". more close quote


I would if I could. Our own Earthly Mother Nature is taking a beating. But I just wish it were a "Proud Member of the SUR-Reality-Based Community".
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