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 nostr:npub1fxmqftqvyw4ndxghsax5zgtquvm6cujym5urwqpu7an96km3nyns07guxz That reminds me of a fairly in-your-face metaphor I used to use in the late 1990s an early 2000s, when I was hanging out with anarcho-punks a lot. Imagine a beehive-shaped building, where the urinals on one floor are connected to the showers on the floor below.

The Yes Men took this metaphor to the next level in one of their famous WTO-impersonation pranks:
 
https://theyesmen.org/project/hamburger/behindthecurtain