A meme for the history books

Too many people will see it, if they recognize it, and think “well, good” rather than learning anything.

On the 77th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz, let me suggest instead:

Don’t know exactly what History lesson you’re trying to “teach” with the pic of the Romanov’s , OB.  Care to explain?

In a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine, Suskind wrote:

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.’ […] ‘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’.[2]

International relations scholar Fred Halliday writes that the phrase reality-based community (in contrast to faith-based community) was used “for those who did not share [the Bush administration’s] international goals and aspirations”.[1] The source of the quotation was guessed to be Bush’s senior advisor Karl Rove,[3][4] although Rove has denied saying it.[5][better source needed]

I don’t think there is any doubt Rove denied saying it. Who wants to go down in history making the infamous quote justifying how the US went to the “dark side?”

Nothing much has changed since. “…we create our own reality…”

unlike our oligarchs.  Alexander II was assassinated and the Church on Spilled Blood was built as a reminder.

Ours cannot imagine such a thing.  Yes, I can see the point, but the oligarchy doesn’t understand indirect.  For most, the image below would make as much sense, even though it makes the same point and perhaps more directly.

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