“[Guys like you are] in what we call the ‘reality-based community’… That's not the way the world really works anymore… 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.”
— Quote attributed to Karl Rove, senior advisor to George W. Bush, 2002
“Reality is often disappointing. That is, it was… now, reality can be whatever I want.”
— Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War, 2018
