We’re All Living ‘Simon’: These Dystopian Movies Keep Coming True
23.01.2022 - 20:01
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I wish all these unhinged movies would quit coming true. Escape From New York. Escape From L.A. Being There. I Am Legend. You name it. Somebody shoots a whacko/dystopian/dysfunctional fantasy. Eventually, we all end up living it.
At the moment, I’m living Brazil—bureaucratic dysfunction. My wife and I bought out a lease car. The leasing company sent documents: It says so right there on the envelope, which you could see on Thursday’s download from Informed Delivery. That’s a digital platform on which the Postal Service provides an image of the day’s mail. Very handy. Or it would be if they actually delivered the mail, which, when it’s really important, they often don’t.
Of 12 pieces due on Thursday and Friday, only the one marked “IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS VEHICLE RELATED MATERIALS ENCLOSED” didn’t arrive. Instead, I got a lot of junk mail, plus an important document plainly addressed to someone else. That one contains a warning that, absent a system update, said person’s automobile wifi apparatus won’t work next month, thanks to an unsolicited network upgrade.
I didn’t open the envelope. But I know what’s inside, because my car is the same make, facing the same impending doom. But I can’t worry about that, because I’m too busy fretting over how to navigate the Department of Motor Vehicles—more Brazil— and pay a hefty, soon-to-be-overdue, transfer tax without the IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS that were photographed and noted online (at least, the envelope was) before being consigned to a dusty cubby, or the bottom of a mail bag or some neighbor who has no more use for my car title than I have for his or her or their software collapse advisory.
Or maybe the papers will show up. You never know. On Jan. 21, I got two bills that had been AWOL
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