> This could be the subject of a dystopia or a dark comedy where the free world has been taken over because could-be revolutionaries are placed on boring, pointless, mismanaged, tail-chasing projects so they have no time to think about the bigger picture or take any real action against the system.

This sounds like the current world we all live and work in...basically we have a bunch of "bullshit jobs" to occupy our time during the day and endless trash entertainment to distract us and keep us from noticing how shitty modern industrial life really is...