Sorry , I do not trust a country that cannot figure out how to ride an escalator. Is there a more fitting metaphor for the pernicious, pervasive, rotting, enervating evil of autocracy that people under its repressive rule have to be instructed on how to ride a fucking escalator!? And then, after struggling to figure it out, the state has to intercede again in order to say forget about it - here instead is our new and improved Party sanctioned manual on how to ride an escalator?! Are you fucking kidding me?! I’d like to go to China and make a movie based entirely on this one subject - is there a more ridiculous yet more to the point example of the insidious ruin the oppressive state can bring down on a person?
