In another century, the French might have written angry pamphlets about Prussian efficiency. In this one, they double-tapped the meme. The lift became a stand-in for everything absurd about the story — the perfect metaphor for modern Europe, where a piece of machinery shows more initiative than the Ministry of Culture.
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