This is about people being brainwashed to believe that the people in government are just much more intelligent and compassionate than we mere mortals.
“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.