Reality-based community is a phrase that appeared in the Church of Reality website in 1998 to contrast the "Reality Based Community" from the "Faith Based Community". It was picked up by left wing political blog Bartcop and spread through the left wing community. In an October 17, 2004, New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, a quotation of the phrase was attributed to an unnamed, George W. Bush aide (later identified as Karl Rove).[1][2] The article reads:
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."[3]
