2026-10-30 01:22 UTC
The dérive.
Human technology may have revolutionized how we do things, 'things', of course, including moving around and about in the city. Though some still take to going to places in person, shocker. In that vein, some elect to not even try using a GPS, or so much as a map. Hell, even asking for directions, to them, feels like a bespoke crutch to be leaned on sparingly, rather than a regular activity - but don't go looking for whoever's supposed to be the one deciding what's sanctioned as 'a regular activity' - the end of that road is them inventing an International Federation too.
Those people like wayfinding on their own, relying on their brain's million year old ability to be a squirming little GPS if you don't starve it by underuse. Which gives their escapades a bit of a nice legitimizing PR justification - certainly better than just 'the pleasure of taking the city as it comes, following its forms and boundaries organically'. Though if I may let you in on a little secret, at the end of the day, the pleasure of it is the real reason they do it.
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