Status Updates From Powerless

I’m at the last chapters and it has been an enjoyable thought experiment BUT I’m not sure how I would be satisfied by any ending to this. 5-stars up to this point!

Czechoslovakia Havel mapped onto California 70s maybe 1984 but poorer, Winston on a waitlist for a TV and a car!
after reading the first 5 chapters: Progress cigarettes 🚬 Diesel buses
Print posters & tape / Bourbon / Domestic violence / baby stroller
people surveillance (no cameras?) secret police, eminent domain, pollution
newspapers & letters but empty / Tony Newman