It goes further than simple state indoctrination into the naturalist religion. Millions of mothers have spent better than two generations being programmed to do something more important with their lives never considering that the something less important might be hearing them. This is not because they are callous and unfeeling. Like drones, they were being programmed. Their questions were ridiculed rather than answered.
Nobody stands up to say that the emperor has no clothes on.
Egalitarian republic is an oxymoron. We don't really value anything for being common, equal and generic. Inequality is the essence of value on this planet. The process of droning requires that you be given the conclusions and not the original data on which the conclusions are based. Thinking for yourself must be discouraged amongst drones.