In the summer of 2002 after Ron Suskind, a reporter of The Wall Street Journal, an article was written, who did not like the White House, it came to a meeting between him and a senior adviser to President Bush. This he expressed the displeasure of the White House, and let him share it in some remarkable ideas:
people like the reporter were, in the opinion of the consultant to "as we call it, to reality-based communities." These he defined as communities of people who believe that "reasonable investigations result from a recognizable reality" solutions to problems. The reporter nodded and murmured something about Enlightenment principles and empiricism. The counselor interrupted him and said: "This is how the world anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. While you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, while they can also study. Thus, sorting out things. We are actors in history. . . and all of you will study only remained, and what we will do. "
The reminiscent of a Congress of the CPSU in the next five-year plan was presented with the opening words: ". We do not study economics, we do economics"
The arrogance of such a contempt for reality, and respect for people who like the reality is breathtaking. And the results of such hubris has been devastating. The Soviet Union is already set. And the world of insiders in Washington and Brussels, follows her now.
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