23 octobre 2004 — Un nouveau terme est aujourd’hui sur toutes les l\u00e8vres \u00e0 Washington : ‘reality-based community’<\/a>. Il d\u00e9signe ceux qui opposent la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 \u00e0 la dialectique virtualiste de GW Bush. (Par opposition \u00e0 la reality-based community<\/em>, les adeptes du virtualisme ‘bushiste’ se regroupent dans la faith-based community<\/em>, qui repr\u00e9sente donc une identification du virtualisme, — mais, \u00e0 notre sens, une parmi d’autres, car il y a d’autres cat\u00e9gories de virtualistes en action que ceux qui se r\u00e9f\u00e8rent \u00e0 la foi.) C’est un passage de l’article de Ron Suskind sur le pr\u00e9sident Bush junior, dans le New York Times du 17 octobre<\/a>, qui a donn\u00e9 sa c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 \u00e0 l’expression. Suskind la pr\u00e9sente dans son contexte, presque dans son origine historique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n » The aide said that guys like me were \u00a0\u00bbin what we call the reality-based community,\u00a0\u00bb which he defined as people who \u00a0\u00bbbelieve that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.\u00a0\u00bb I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. \u00a0\u00bbThat’s not the way the world really works anymore,\u00a0\u00bb he continued. \u00a0\u00bbWe’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.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n L’int\u00e9r\u00eat se concentre donc sur cet aspect extraordinaire de la pr\u00e9sidence GW Bush. Un programme statistique, le Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) de l’Universit\u00e9 du Maryland, a examin\u00e9 ses caract\u00e9ristiques<\/a> en s’appuyant sur les comportements et les jugements compar\u00e9s des \u00e9lectorats de Bush et de Kerry, notamment dans la question de la guerre irakienne et de ses ’causes’. Jim Lobe a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 et analys\u00e9 les r\u00e9sultats<\/a>. Justin Raimundo pr\u00e9f\u00e8re parler, ce 22 octobre, du Bizarro World de GW Bush<\/a>, se r\u00e9f\u00e9rant \u00e0 une autre de ses analyses<\/a> où il examinait d\u00e9j\u00e0 cet \u00e9trange aspect de la pr\u00e9sidence GW Bush. L’affaire est si c\u00e9l\u00e8bre d\u00e9sormais qu’on en fait des tee-shirts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
\u00ab\u00a0Faith-based community<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb contre \u00ab\u00a0Reality-based community<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n