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in the present case. What we are dealing with is denial that is subconscious and therefore organized and “institutional”. This implies propaganda, misinformation, whitewash, manipulation, spin, propaganda, misin disinformation, etc. whitewash, manipulation, Believing anything that comes down the pike is not the opposite of denial. “Acknowledgement” of the probability of a high level of Truth about a given matter is what should happen when people are actively aroused by certain information. This information can be 1) factual or forensic truth; that is to say, legal or scientific information which is factual, accurate and objective; it is obtained by impartial procedures; 2) personal and narrative truth including “witness testimonies”. I should add here that skepticism and solipsistic arguments - including epistemological relativism - about the existence of objective truth, are generally a social construction and might be considered in the terms of the hypnotized man who has been programmed to think that there “is no truth”. “clearly known”, but for many reasons - personal or political, justifiable or unjustifiable - are concealed, or it is agreed that they will not be acknowledged “out loud”. There are “unpleasant truths” and there are truths that make us tired because if we acknowledge them - if Cohen points out that “All counter-claims about the denied reality are themselves only manoeuvres in endless truth-games. And truth, as we know, is inseparable from power’. Denial of truth is, effectively, giving There are different kinds of denial. First, there is literal denial which is the type that fits the dictionary definition, the assertion that something did not happen or does not exist. This most often occurs in very painful situations where there are conflicts of love: the wife would say that the husband could not have molested his daughter, therefore the child must be making it up. This also seems to apply to denial of the state of our manipulated reality. Our love for our parents, our need for their approval, is often transferred to our peers, our employers, and the State. To think about stepping outside of the belief system that makes us “belong” is just too frightening. It assaults our deepest sense of security. The second kind of denial is “interpretative”. In this kind of denial, the raw facts that something actually happened are not really denied - they are just “interpreted”. If a person is reasonably intelligent, and is 163 High Strangeness — Part Two misinformation, Denial occurs for a variety of reasons. There are truths that are we do more than give them a tacit nod - we may find it necessary to make changes in our lives. away your power.