> 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'.

The actors of the empire are dismantling said empire. It will be studied, not least by its adversaries.

Bush Admin was doing Hyperstition before it was cool B)

It ruins the chance at dunking on the opposition but the key word is "discernable".

It's reality as it appears to be to a person on the outside. Not actual reality.

I'm still waiting to hear that soliloquy in a movie.

It's pretty much a rewrite of a famous monologue in Network, for those who haven't seen that before. At least in tone and delivery.

Deserves to be named too

> 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality‘

The American reality of stepping on rake after rake after rake. A gag that meanders repeatedly between funny and sad.