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I'm not just talking cruelty in terms of their goals, but also how they went about achieving their goals

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big Brother.

The paranoia of everyone being on the watch for everything forcing everyone to be even more paranoid

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It was even more insidious than that. It wasn't about self-preservation or selfish need... they were so brainwashed they considered it good to tell on others as a matter of course. One of the secondary characters is even proud of his own children for turning him in for talking in his sleep.