A friend pointed out an excellent feature article The “Without a Doubt” by Ron Suskind in the Sunday’s NYTimes magazine about the way in which President Bush’s administration has been shaped by George W.’s faith. There is a section of the article which I find particularly disturbing:
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.”
Maybe the postmodernists out there feel right at home in this philosophy, but it makes me rather uncomfortable.
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