SLOWNESS

Hey Pacman,
You’re skipping the perceived value of quantity over that of quality. The “enjoyment” T-bone is experiencing is measured by the optimization of new experiences per $. Which is the opposite of the drifter. A tourist—or architecture student in Europe for the first time—will see 14 countries in 3 weeks. (Or Venice, Rome, Bologna and London in 5 days.) The satisfaction is not dissociable from the sense of getting a deal. Do you think T-bone would have really been able to enjoy the sights of Venice for 5 days, eating gelato and sipping spritzes, without checking off the items culturally dictated to define a Venetian trip?

"Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. The flâneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them. If they had had their way, progress would have been obliged to accommodate itself to this pace. But this attitude did not prevail; Taylor, who popularized the watchword 'Down with dawdling!', carried the day."

-Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project.