The interesting question, in my mind, is whether the acts you describe are unique to Reagan, or whether they are more common, and if so, among whom? I raised examples of similar acts by Clinton and Gore, and linked a newspaper column by a Richmond columnist who described doing exactly the thing you accuse Reagan of doing, namely, imagining, and describing, vividly, things that didn't happen.
It may well be true that we all do it, but not all of us are under constant scrutiny, so it passes unnoticed. Or it may be that certain types of people are more prone to it than others. It may be that older people are more prone to it than younger people. Or it may be that Reagan, Clinton and Gore are the only ones, although I doubt it.
Don't you find these questions interesting?
Edit: after all, we live among people who believe that Elvis is alive, and that aliens take them up into spaceships and perform operations on them, and so forth. Imagining you witnessed something you only read about in the newspaper when the event took place decades ago seems innocent compared to imagining that you were operated on by aliens. |
