Quantity has a quality all its own, as they say.

If you live in a town and there’s a couple security guards or even cops that can recognize you, that’s pretty normal.

If there were thousands of private security guards as well as cops hired by the government stationed all around you, in every part of your life, gazing at you from every corner, and they had all been trained to recognize you, and every time you walked by one they whipped out a notepad and took detailed notes on what you were doing, you’d freak the fuck out, justifiably.