The sentence referred to here: > All good so far. But then you say that it is a problem, and this is where I am lost. …Is not referring to a problem that has,

The sentence referred to here: > All good so far. But then you say that it is a problem, and this is where I am lost. …Is not referring to a problem that has, at that point in the story, been revealed. It is being evocative in a sort of dog-whistle technique - before jumping into the generalisations that follow.