Reading up on the methods of the Stasi, the former East German state security service is very illuminating.
From the Wikipedia article, this most interesting and could represent the next steps ahead.
The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung (pronounced [ʦɛɐ̯ˈzɛtsʊŋ]) – a term borrowed from chemistry which literally means "decomposition".
By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that the methods of overt persecution that had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.
...the Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It was called Zersetzung, and it's described in another guideline. The word is difficult to translate because it means originally "biodegradation". But actually, it's a quite accurate description. The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships. Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship. The Stasi didn't try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions.
—Hubertus Knabe, German historian [35]
Yup. Children will be the new brown shirts to rat on their parents, as the German parents feared their own children who would turn them over to the state. The virus will be the first mechanism used for schools to trains children to be reporters for societal "good". It will go onto to anti-government awareness and reporting.
Thanks for writing this. They don't call it "deep dive" for nothing! There's a lot under the surface with what's happening in our world. We are a divided people, and as long as people let political divide do the thinking in place of historical research and big-picture thinking, the divide will only get worse. Tyranny never comes knocking by letting you know it's plan. It comes with help, safety, promises of solutions, and then you find yourself trapped in the bonds of control and over-reach.
Thanks again for this.
I wrote about zersetzung earlier. This is all a Bill Gates wet dream.