I’m not backing away from wanting readers to draw inferences. Inferences from fiction to fact. I could stop writing fiction forever, under the assumption that readers don’t want to make inferences, they’re too lazy, they only want one fact after another. But I don’t make that ironclad assumption about readers. I recently wrote a short story about the Crispies. In the year 2074. In the story, it’s the largest private security army in the US.