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