One thing @charlesmurray really got right was the injustice of denying differences in cognitive ability just as they become an increasingly load-bearing component of any kind of harmonious modern life.

Like I've been staring at a government website for the past fifteen minutes trying to figure out exactly what, and in which order, I must do in order to title and register a vehicle, and which of these requirements have been superceded by the recent unpleasantness.

I have a phd. Something like 20% of genpop is functionally illiterate.

I've probably technically committed crimes by failing to fill out forms correctly. The saving grace, I guess, is that the bureaucracy is as incompetent at detecting irregularities as I am at avoiding them.

It seems especially salient in Taxachusetts, where form-filing is a competitive sport.

One peculiar MA archetype is the socially progressive software engineer who uses ivy league optimization chops to structure his own financial position with respect to taxation as the stealth bomber is to radar.

I'm sincerely in awe of these people, but do they wonder what life looks like if you *don't* have the bureaucracy-fu of a phone book copyeditor bumping adderall off a Kafka hardcover?

ETA: the signed pdf my insurance agent sent me is non-fillable, time to just detonate the vest.

Just realized that I crossed out part of a misprinted address on the title transfer form.

I'm gonna lose a finger at the RMV.