This will just be true things. A compilation, if you will, of true things. You get to decide what they mean. Let's go.
First: On October 17, 2004, journalist Ron Suskind wrote, in the NY Time Magazine, about a meeting he had with a senior aide to President George W. Bush two years earlier:
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."
Second: Last Thursday, in a speech to executives of international news agencies belonging to MINDS International, a consortium of leading news agencies, Pope Leo XIV quoted Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism":
"...the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
Third: Pope Leo XIV is the first American Pope.
Make of it what you will.
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