I've seen this guy before and had the same thought as you, and my guess is that there is truth to it (the abstraction makes people weirdly ok with surveillance)

I've seen this guy before and had the same thought as you, and my guess is that there is truth to it (the abstraction makes people weirdly ok with surveillance) - but i also think someone being fairly close to you monitoring you is different: that person could potentially harm you at any moment and them just staring at you filming with minimal to no conversation is threatening. I would like to see this stunt again but done in a way that gets a clearer message out and doesn't make it seem like they're about to pull a weapon.