much is this quote America's fault? Because I think part of this, I think it's just the result that in America, people talk about America. It's just natural. But there's a kind of weird sense in which everything that goes wrong in the world is America's fault. But somehow we're incredibly incompetent, but at the same time, everything that happens, any kind of coup is America's tentacle somewhere. And again, I think this also speaks to what we talked about earlier, which is the immense power that's going up around the executive, the quote, deep state. People have lost confidence. They don't know what is real and what's not real. And this is really problematic. And again, I actually want to quote another great book by Peter Pomerotsev called Nothing is True and Everything is Possible. It's actually about post-Soviet propaganda and how propaganda works in Russia. But it's actually something that reflects increasingly how American society is organized informationally these days. But I just (41/45)