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Like a reality pulled from a Kafka work, a series of incredibly bewildering events disrupts our administrative daily life.
In an administrative aberration reminiscent of the paradoxes of Czech author Franz Kafka, an ordinary citizen has been drawn into an endless spiral of paperwork, incomprehensible bureaucratic procedures, and interminable waiting sessions.
Mr. Jean Dupont, a local resident, simply attempted to obtain a new identity card after misplacing the old one. Not a particularly arduous task, you might say, but the events that followed resembled a narrative straight out of “The Trial” by Kafka.
Mr. Dupont’s first attempt ended in failure when he was informed that he could not apply for a new card without the old one being present. Then, during the second attempt, he was told that he could indeed request a new card, but only with an official document certifying the loss of the first. Total confusion ensued when he was told during his third visit that the required document was outdated and that he needed another document, which turned out, during his fourth visit, to be the very first document he had been asked for.
“I feel like Kafka’s character, Joseph K, caught in a plot where logic is thwarted and every effort to resolve the issue only complicates it further,” Mr. Dupont said, visibly frustrated. “I had no idea that losing an identity card could make me lose my identity in the workings of the administration.”
The Kafkaesque inconsistencies of this story highlight the dysfunctions of our administrative system… where a simple task can turn into an absurd ordeal. It is time to simplify this paperwork labyrinth and restore meaning to our administration.
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