CONFRONT
by L. Ron Hubbard

There are several choices in English on the meaning of "confront." These include the right one: "To face without flinching or avoiding." An example in a sentence: "The test of a free society is its capacity to confront rather than evade the vital questions of choice."
There is another meaning: "To stand facing or opposing, especially in challenge, defiance or accusation."
English is a pretty limited language in many ways. I imagine the thought of facing something (which is what the word came from and originally meant way back- "frons" being "face") was so horrifying to the types who write dictionaries they knew it would be bad!
In essence it is an action of being able to face. If one cannot, if he avoids, then he is not AWARE.
Awareness is the ability to perceive the existence of. In the dictionary it also fails to confront that and says: "Awareness: the quality or state of being aware." And "aware" means: "Marked by realization, perception or knowledge."
So these chaps couldn't confront and so conceived awareness to be figure-figure.
We are moving out of the range of language when we want to say:
"He could stand up to things and wasn't always shrinking back into himself and avoiding, so he could be fully conscious of the real universe and others around him."
And that's what confront means.
If one can confront, he can be aware.
If he is aware, he can perceive and act.
If he can't confront, he will not be aware of things and will be withdrawn and not perceiving. Thus he is unaware of things around him.

My favorite "Confront", as a devout Roller Coaster enthusiast, is obviously the SUPPRESSOR - often considered "Social Conduct" insofar as one prevents things from being revealed which might embarrass or frighten others.
Consider the word SUPPRESS in the dictionary: to put down by authority or force 2. to keep from public knowledge as a) to keep a secret b) to stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of 3. d) exclude from consciousness b) to keep from giving vent to 56 to inhibit the growth or development of 6. to inhibit the genetic expression of Suppressant Domination games impel me TO BE all I can be. Thank You.