So instead of one Big Brother we're left with millions of Little Snitches.,(reply>), The thinkers of the 20th century were fooling themselves by thinking evil was autocratic or hierarchical, or a sort of order. It's a rat race between all the little demons,(reply>), it's estimated that one eighteenth of the Soviet Unions population worked as government informants. Basically one of the only ways to get ahead was to snitch on people whether or not it was true considering they also had information quotas. They figured out that it was much more effective to weaponize your own citizenry as a secret police than it was to use less subtle means because it completely demoralised opposition and made obedience to the state a virtue signalling contest.,(reply>), @brkbeat junkie: Precisely,(reply>), Look into Chinese snitching culture. Then look at what was going on during the USSR. Communists rely on snitching for power control and to squash dissent and opposition.,(reply>), They are big brother. You can have a 24/7 monitoring without a few people willing to throw those around them under a bus, so those snitches come hand-in-hand with big brother.