[JKCalhoun]

Bureaucracy was my takeaway.

As a USAmerican though, I see it as more general—a statement about how modern, "1st-world" civilization has become so god-damned complicated.

I catch myself (especially since I have kids) realizing how difficult it is to navigate some aspect of modern life (for example, various payment methods—credit cards). A kind of mantra that always rises in my thoughts is, "No one would ever have designed the system to work like this."

Somehow, independent actors, independent reasons, likely the ability to make it this complex has indeed made it this complex.

It's no surprise then that just functioning in this modern society induces a level of background anxiety. Pretty much the opposite of "touching grass".