"Consider then, what happens when they realize it didn't go according to the script."
I'm not sure that's ever going to happen. Between that being enough cognitive dissonance that they'll erect psychological defense mechanisms to avoid experiencing it, and their having started out already boasting of not being "reality based" (paraphrase since I'm too tired to do a Google hunt right now: "you reality-based folks are obsolete, reality is whatever we decide it is"), they ain't seein'.
"Now tell me what good can come of this [...]"
You get one guess how much "good" I expect, and leafing back through my old journal entries for my politics is cheating. I'll be surprised if you guess wrong.
(Actually some good can come of it as much by luck as aught else, and some other good can come directly but at so high a price that it makes few people happy. Mostly, I think they'll just be relieved when it's finally over, whenever that is.)
Yeah - I know the articles that you've been referencing - I've seen 'em myself. I agree that they're goign to continue living in their world and wonder why the rest of us don't conform, or find ways of itnerpreting our world to fit in theirs.
The problem I see is that unless a) a miracle happens (reality does actually conform to their scripted world) or b) a miracle happens (they start looking outside their box consistently), it's not going to be over for a very long and expensive while.
While some good might come of it by luck, they're not actively helping their own cases. Three more years...
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I'm not sure that's ever going to happen. Between that being enough cognitive dissonance that they'll erect psychological defense mechanisms to avoid experiencing it, and their having started out already boasting of not being "reality based" (paraphrase since I'm too tired to do a Google hunt right now: "you reality-based folks are obsolete, reality is whatever we decide it is"), they ain't seein'.
"Now tell me what good can come of this [...]"
You get one guess how much "good" I expect, and leafing back through my old journal entries for my politics is cheating. I'll be surprised if you guess wrong.
(Actually some good can come of it as much by luck as aught else, and some other good can come directly but at so high a price that it makes few people happy. Mostly, I think they'll just be relieved when it's finally over, whenever that is.)
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The problem I see is that unless a) a miracle happens (reality does actually conform to their scripted world) or b) a miracle happens (they start looking outside their box consistently), it's not going to be over for a very long and expensive while.
While some good might come of it by luck, they're not actively helping their own cases. Three more years...
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I'm too tired to do a Google hunt right now
Here's the Wikipedia entry on the reality-based community, with links to the Even The Liberal New York Times article.