and having your life and the lives of your family members threatened with imprisonment and torture if you don’t sing the national anthem today.
(Postscript: the team all moved their lips while the anthem played before the game.)
This is right out of 1984; Big Brother has spoken and protective stupidity and orthodoxy are required to avert death and tragedy.
This happening as the Chinese Thought Police raid private citizens’ phones to ferret out traitorous mandate-policy protesters.
The Individual is under greater threat than ever in autocratic societies world-wide. 1984 remains the most relevant novel ever written.
