[lbo-talk] Appearance v. reality

[Chuck Grimes]

Petraeus himself clearly understood the primacy of appearances over reality. 
``What policymakers believe to have taken place in any particular situation 
is more important than what actually occurred,'' he wrote in his 1987 
Princeton dissertation.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/11/20121121114549612880.html

Obviously, the above applies to the entire political establishment who seem 
absolutely determined to be as anti-kantian as their in-house economists.