For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
“But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.”
“I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.”