Watching Each Other Being Watched

When the state feels the threat that justifies the means
of repressing the masses,
then the threat to the public will be practically infinite-
for as long as they endure the state can repress more.
The unknown unknown that nobody can know
until they have gone past it is the level of defensiveness
the populous can internalise to think they are alive,
before they die inside, from being utterly divided
-for being pushed onto the defensive.....