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.”

“Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush” October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush.

I do indeed believe that “solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality” and wish beyond hope that the politicians theocrats in this country also believed it to be true. As Point of Inquiry is fond of saying, “Who ever thought that reality needed defending?”

Tags: atheism, politics, religion

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