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                                             February 20, 2007
                                             July     15, 2007
So, what do you *want* to believe?

Andrew Cockburn brings up a plausible              DUBIOUS_FLARE
pyschological theory about the truthies:

     "One characteristic of the nuts is
     that they have a devout, albeit
     preposterous belief in American
     efficiency, thus many of them start
     with the racist premise that
     'Arabs in caves' weren't capable
     of the mission. They believe that
     military systems work the way
     Pentagon press flacks and aerospace
     salesmen say they should work."

  [ref]


  They don't *want* to believe that
  a small group of fanatics can get
  in such a powerful hit.

  It's comforting, in a way, to believe
  that it would take the resources of
  a United States in order to damage         The world is a more
  a United States.                           fragile place than
                                             they're willing to
  And in the case of the Kennedy             believe.
  assassination, the idea that
  all it takes is one lone nut                    TIPS_FOR_T
  to take-down the president...
  that can be a pretty disturbing
  idea.

  Similarly, you can argue that
  the opposition to a conspiracy
  theory is indulging their own          And there's another form of denial:
  dreams and fears... the notion         there are many people who want to
  that the US government is so           believe that the Bush administration
  warped that it's attacking the         would not embroil us in a war with
  US-- there are reasons one might       another country without a very good
  be in denial of that also.             reason: hence the common, well
                                         established delusion that Iraq had
                                         something to do with the 9/11
                                         attack.

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    There's a a choice of states
    of denial in which to exist.          (United States of Denial?
                                          I bet that one's been used
    So... what differences                before...)
    in psychology leads one
    to one or the other
    sort of denial?              (Alexander Cockburn, by the way,
                                 is into Global Warming denial...)

         What's yours?


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