Idolization

How about a non-immigration post on this Sunday day of rest?  Can we discuss the Beatles medley on this season's final episode of American Idol?  It was hideous, excrutiating and atrocious -- yet, in a perverse way, quite enjoyable.  True, to enjoy it, you did have to mentally transport yourself to the future, and then watch the medly as if it were something that happened long ago, while simultaneously thanking God that musical taste has advanced since those dark days of the early 21st century.  But if we can't use our imaginations to make the unbearable bearable, what's an imagination for?  Anyway, don't we need a word for this uniquely human gift?  It's an idealization of the present through an act of visualization -- given this, and the inspiring influence of American Idol, we nominate idolization, meaning the act of viewing the present as if it were the past, so that one can enjoy in the present what would otherwise be considered painfully unenjoyable.