Is it too optimistic to think that this version of reality, this quote, might be over soon?

From Ron Suskind:

"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.''"

This quote was more than frightening. It's a description, or prescrtipion, for dictatorship or at least for the unitary executive. Are we getting past this? Will politicians, corporate media, and pundits allow a well informed public? Will there be transparency again? Are we done with secret energy meetings, diminishment of science and academics, putting presidential records in a secret vault, plans to eliminate FOIA, NSA spying, secret prisons, fake news, Pentagon propagandists, catapulting of propaganda, etc etc etc?

(The rest of the article is really worthwhile too: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html It is really time to resurrect and revisit the entire litany of abuses and misdeeds and package them as one gestault of disaster)