By: Patrick
According to Walter Benjamin, in 1839 it was considered elegant to take a tortoise out walking. Such was the pace of life that society’s flâneurs and idlers chose to lead. Looking at the endless array of advertisements on the London Underground for cognitive enhancers to ward off idleness and promote a more energetic way of life, it would be easy to wonder where it all went so wrong. Or so right, depending on how you see it.