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> . It's not some crazy bureaucratic maze or malevolent government It is. Because as one 71-year old individual, former plumber, one day the regulators come kn
by 2ion 7y ago
> . It's not some crazy bureaucratic maze or malevolent government
It is. Because as one 71-year old individual, former plumber, one day the regulators come knocking on your door telling you you're 1.2m short. In this kind of situation, an individual with no political or instiutional connections is (perceivedly) powerless and overwhelmed:
- I can't pay my responsibilities.
- I can't change the law.
That's kafkaesque.
- justin66 7y ago> That's kafkaesque. You can't really use that term to describe a situation that is well understood and is widely recognized to be a problem (not exactly a Kafka staple). It's simply awful law, which is bad enough. You'd expect lawmakers to just fix it, although they tend to be preoccupied with other things in the UK right now.
- logfromblammo 7y agoKafkaesque would be... - I don't know what my responsibilities are. - I don't know to whom I am obligated. - I cannot discover either. - I am being punished for failure to deliver. - Everything I can possibly do is not enough. - Every 4 weeks, men in grey, face-concealing masks sedate me and graft what is possibly the upper half of a deformed baby onto my back. They cry constantly. I am not allowed to have mirrors. It has been 18 months, and I can barely lift the weight of them any more.