We have a saying in the military that the first report is always wrong.

And the second and third and fourth and fifth versions might still be wrong.

And that happens all the time in the civilian world as well. It happens with news reports a lot.

Even when those reports are trying to tell you the truth, when they're trying to tell you the truth.

When they're trying to tell you the truth,

when there's no political agenda around what they're saying.

It's a news report about a tornado or something like that, the news outlets still get it wrong.

They still get it wrong in their first reports because they're

simply are always wrong first reports are always wrong it's not because of their

political bias in those situations it's a tornado

they're wrong because first reports are only one perspective, one reporter, or one cameraman or one bystander that's being interviewed.

And one person cannot see enough to know what has actually happened.

Because that one person only sees what they see and on top of that they're emotional

and they have their own biases and they have adrenaline in their blood and they have tears in their eyes and anger in their voice and so their

perspective is going to be flawed.

So the first report is always wrong and you don't understand what happened until you get

other perspectives and even then, even then if you interview every person involved with an event you still only have

an idea of what actually happened. You won't actually know what happened.

So there's a lot going on in the world right now.

And there always is a lot going on in the world,

but right now it's particularly volatile.

And this seems to transfer to people.

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