“This is about people being brainwashed to believe that the people in government are just much more intelligent and compassionate than we mere mortals.”
It is that, and it is also a display of brute force; the State hivemind versus the individual.
This is meant to train plain folk that they are utterly impotent and exist by permission only. This is why I am confident that the day will come when a spark will set a fire which will burn them all, root and branch.
If I am still able, I will carry fuel to the conflagration.
People have been gradually and slowly trained to be well behaved children, that it how we think of ourselves when we are before authorities and by authorities I am including the media which is the perfect brainwashing machine of the state constantly reinforcing the message that the state is always right. Communism with a soft touch.
It makes you pay more attention on what the word “subject” really means. We thought that the days of royals and aristocrats were gone but I guess they didn’t really change their ways they only put on a nice mask.