Today's exercise- making something out of nothing:
In Europe toilets feature wash-down bowls, not siphon bowls. The differences between the traditional German toilet bowl (where excrement is displayed), the French bowl (where the excrement disappears in the hole as soon as possible), and the American one (where the excrement floats in water) cannot be accounted for in terms of pure functionality. Each type of the toilet bowl may present an ideological stance of some sort.
Germans have a tendency to elevate mere necessity into something more sublime, to invest a simple action with a higher, loftier meaning. The tendency to put theory over fact and the ideal over the real tends to make for good artists and philosophers (Germany has more than any other country), but deflects attention from day-to-day affairs, promoting disorder in politics and society.