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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (57206)10/5/1999 1:26:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
>If one is told something that sounds
useful, and is useful, one may believe it, without necessarily being delusional. Credulous
is more the word I'd use. <

Credulous doesn't quite capture it. I like E's word "fabulation". It confers the idea that an otherwise bright, sophisticated person is operating at several levels - and the premises in some of these levels are incompatible. That is the key to "believing your own bullshit" - chaperoning your internal dialog. Reagan appears to have been quite good at it.
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