Having spent the majority of my active-duty Navy career immersed in the global war on terrorism, I read with great interest the Nov. 1 news article “Accused Pelosi attacker’s history shows the blurry lines of radicalization.” The blurring of ideologies leading to the radicalization of Paul Pelosi’s alleged attacker is a product of advances in technology, which I began to notice in 2016, whereby, through social media, an individual can take fragments of various ideologies, some of which are contradictory, to form their own atomized, individualized extremist ideology tailored specifically to them.