selectively look for something that will support your existing narrative. It's a very deep-seated temptation that really we all have, but it's very treacherous. And as people who are professionally sort of going after facts, we have to train ourselves to value the facts that contradict what we already think most, these are the most valuable facts, the ones that falsify our thinking, not the ones that confirm our thinking. Absolutely. And also that fit into existing narratives that are perpetuating themselves in the public mind. It's a lot easier to get traction in the media today when you insert a story into an existing narrative, into a preexisting framing, especially one that is no pun intended active, that is particularly potent in the moment. Another thing that I thought a lot about when I was reading your book was how these types of measures exploit hypocrisies in the body politic of an open society like the United States, because America is not the American military, American (37/43)