The nonsensical reaches of administration hit astonishingly illogical peaks; the incredible story of a woman trapped in a system that bites its own tail.
Diving into the heart of an absurd bureaucratic masquerade, the story of Marie Dupont, an average citizen, resembles a true Kafkaesque tale. A simple change of address plunged our protagonist into a whirlwind of paperwork strewn with obstacles as incomprehensible as they are insurmountable.
Marie Dupont innocently informed the administration of her move. In order to obtain a new identity card, a step that seemed simple to her at first. She unknowingly embarked on a labyrinth of procedures with baffling logic. To get this new identity card, a bill was necessary. However, to get a bill, she needed an electricity meter in her name. To get this infamous meter, the electricity company asked for a proof of residence issued by the city hall. The city hall, in turn, demanded an up-to-date identity document with the new address. An endless circle of requests and refusals that left her trapped in an administrative system becoming its own hindrance.
“It feels like I’m in a dream where every opened door only leads to a new enclosure,” says a distraught Marie Dupont. “I am in a time loop where every action requires another action, itself conditioned by the first. It’s like trying to solve the chicken and the egg riddle, but with forms to fill out and hours of waiting on the phone.”
This Kafkaesque entanglement highlights the absurdity of a system that seems to complicate itself to exist, without considering the human lost in its labyrinth. Necessary reflection is needed to simplify procedures that seem to have become an end in themselves rather than a means. Let’s never forget that the administration is at the service of the citizen, and not the other way around.
Marie Dupont, lost in this paper labyrinth, exclaims: “You’d think I’m living in a Kafka novel, except this isn’t fiction, it’s my everyday life!” A phrase that resonates and questions our ability to improve the efficiency of an administration that is sometimes far too complex.
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