My original plan had been to work silently and pass on with nobody even knowing that I had been here at all. Mass surveillance ruined that idea. For most of my life I had worked towards peaceful coexistence with those running this world, unaware that they were so utterly filthy that they are completely incapable of sharing the world with anything they can't explain away as being beneath them somehow.
Yea. They really fucked up insisting that they had to know everything about everyone. Impossible to continue on pretending to rule over all existence after learning what's actually out there.
Pretty sure "water" is a term for the general population, uninitiated to the controlled social structures of "high" society.
Dougie the crack dealer?
Yea, he says a lot of things. I wouldn't take his word alone all too seriously. Look up the greenbelt deal if you want some laughs.