Workers, fearing for their safety, opt neither to ask themselves nor one another why the present course of action is to be considered the best alternative. Without access to official intelligence, their questions will not be addressed. So are ever increasing levels of violence and exploitation. The choice for silence is made without serious reflection. Born of fear of oneself, one's comrades, and state authority, workers keep their own counsel.
Acceptable conversation is necessarily light fare.
Spies lurking about may overhear the equivocal conversations of the citizenry. Confusion is acceptable, but not disloyalty. One must squelch personal concerns about public policy. A successful war effort requires all hands. Everyone must act to eradicate the enemy during wartime.