The change in the title of the Blog (albeit until it no longer amuses me, possibly on Nov 3) is due to the telling comments as reported by Matthew Yglesias, among others, about Ron Susskind's article in the Times.
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.'’ 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.'’
I'll take reality any day. I leave 'creating reality' to my Amberites and Total Recall and eXistenZ.
Posted by Jvstin at October 18, 2004 1:16 PM