That’s sort of what I thought. Somehow robots with long sticks seem scarier than ones with taser guns, however. This reminds me of something, it’s not a quote it’s a lyric:
You think you’ve private lives, think nothing of the kind. There is no true escape, I’m watching all the time. I’m made of metal. My circuits gleam. I am perpetual. I keep the country clean.
Those lyrics are prescient in light of the computer technology we have today. Think of it as an electronic pan-opticon.
I consider THX 1138 to be prophetic in regards to the cattle prods on sticks which are the tazers of today. And we have cops that act more like robots than human beings.