The state logic, by Juan José Millás

He The State offers aid that is impossible to access if you do not have a computer, a mobile phone and almost an office from which to write to you. Talking to the State is as difficult as talking to Mr. Vodafone, or Mr. Twitter (now X), or Mr. Microsoft or Mr. Google, even with Mr. Filmin or Mr. HBO (they are all gentlemen, by the way). This is because the State, like Schrödinger’s Cat, exists and does not exist at the same time. If you have excess resources, the State will put itself at your feet. If you lack them, you will find no way to find it. Frequently, to process something that should be simple, such as retirement or the tax return, you have to resort to (and pay) an advisor who is an expert in knowing the habits of the State to pick it up at a moment’s notice and be willing to assist you.

Suppose that the State offers a subsidy for poor, very poor people, who have to demonstrate your poverty through technologies that are not within their reach.

-But the State cannot do that -sensible people will say-, because the state is logical.

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The State is logical, in effect, but Its logic is more similar to that of the quantum world than to that of macroscopic reality. In other words, in addition to being alive and dead at the same time, he can be in two places at the same time, although without being in any of them. It is not uncommon for you to go to a State office where they require you to make an appointment by phone.. You return home patiently, call the phone number they provided you, but no one picks up. It’s not that they don’t pick it up at ten. They don’t take it at ten, eleven, twelve, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. The State is there (you yourself have set foot in one of its offices), but it is not there because it is completely intransitive. It’s called quantum superposition.

The Minimum Living Income, on which the State once carried out (through the Government) an amazing advertising campaign, only reaches 5% of homeless people, who are the ones who need it most. And you have to request it by telematic means that the indigent lack. If they had them, they would deny him for having them. It means that the IMV, like the State, exists and does not exist at the same time.

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