Yep. Late stage Communism didn’t rely so much on Stalinist brutality, but more on humiliation. If you were a dissident, they didn’t bother to Gulag you, but they would fire you from your nice professional job as an engineer or a doctor and make you clean toilets as a janitor. American society has replicated this use of ritual humiliation and is using it extensively.
What is interesting is that the humiliation is often done anonymously and certainly at a distance. People who are “canelled” are almost never able to confront their tormentors. Its necessary to fight back especially if the cancelling is done by state run entities such as colleges or professional licensing boards and by private corporations for wrongful firing. Also the mobs must be held accountable. IMHO a person who is being attacked or cancelled has a right to take direct action against those who are hurting them for their opinions.
Yes.
Actually digging holes in wilderness was the prefered method to punish nonconformants. Janitor meets too many people and can interact! The best is to send them to work where there are no people to talk to.
Night Shift stoker was also a popular job for black sheep people.