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Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization
This week’s post is the first in a four part series (II, IIIa, IIIb, interlude, IV) looking at what I’m going to term the Fremen Mirage (a play on Le Mirage Spartiate, which we’ve…
![Tumblr post by dostoyevsky-official quoting an NYT article: "The [George W. Bush] 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 discernable 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." October 17, 2004.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mv5lwmxtr6iwgzrcguuhw6xi/bafkreihennf3pvlbr3kz7eo4pphun7gvthdrtzcycenwqly2y3aln5zuwy)
