Peace,
I'll say something about the cameras.
Do you remember the good old days of the cold war, when the Soviets were the manifestation of all that the West was against.
One of those manifestations, picked up by Orwell as the Big Brother Is Watching You slogan, was that in the S.U., there was any amount of spying on ordinary citizens.
And in those days, that was the kind of thing that would not exist in the West because we were the countries of free peoples. The idea of being spied on was anathema.
Then the Berlin Wall fell; the Cold War drew towards a close.
In short order, by virtue of great free enterprise activities like motorists speeding, criminality, and terrorism, cameras sprang up in the Free World. Only now cameras were fine, and spying on people became laudable.

A classic example of projection, only state projection rather than the individual variety. In the Cold War, we projected onto the Soviets those aspects of ourselves that we denied we possessed. Now the SU has gone. we can not only own those apects, we now think them a Good Thing.

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