Fair enough, this felt like a good microcosm of the absurd bureaucratic contradictions that typify "collapse of the old society". I didn't mean to share this as an indicator of some sudden severe existential collapse but rather as an indicator of what it looks like in the everyday, localized picture to experience a collapse of the old society.

You either have to believe nothing in the universe ever makes sense, or that you are living in an inherently absurd system that cannot sustain itself.