this is why the rule is to careful psychoanalyzing people from a distance. While this *could* be an important factor of his mental model, it could also be a representative item which he simply uses to describe a series of things.

The Maginot Line is something I like referring to, but it doesn't mean I think everything is WW2; to me it's a big example of how you can put a ton of effort into a defense and things can change to render it completely useless.