There is always, during inflation, some inflaton field doing the inflating. And that field does pick out a preferred rest traint. Now, why was it ever there? That's a more difficult one. A it was always there, as far as we know. So it's not a matter of vino creating it,. Such as understanding iwas always there. Jessie rimler asks if you agree with the principle that it is most important for a citizen to be critical of the actions of their own state. I don't even agree with that. What i would like is just to be correctly critical of everybody.