Por @Wicho — 19 de octubre de 2004
Ron Suskind publica un artículo titulado Without a Doubt en New York Times Magazine que pone los pelos de punta acerca de la forma de gobernar y de tomar decisiones de George W. Bush, basada básicamente en su fe:
This is one key feature of the faith-based presidency: open dialogue, based on facts, is not seen as something of inherent value.¿Que un diálogo abierto, basado en los hechos, no sirve de nada?
O esto, que le comentó un importante asesor del presidente Bush:
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.'"Vamos, que los que intentamos ver el mundo basándonos en la realidad no tenemos nada que hacer porque el imperio americano se cree capaz de manejar el mundo a su antojo...
Ya no es un caso de un gobernante que ha perdido el contacto con la realidad, sino que cree que él define la realidad a su antojo.
Aterrador.
(Vía William Gibson, que ha decidido reabrir su blog en vista de cómo están las cosas en su país.)
