During my brief lunch break during the week I have come across this blog in the NY Times in a nutshell shares tips on careers.
One particular entry recently on Networking Strategy caught my eye - and it was hilarious to read through the response. Someone has 'discovered' urban hike and was basically sharing the discovery which did not impress everyone - just reading BENBENEK and Zonal had me in stitches.
"This concept is offensive simply for the fact that it is a concept. Walking is, of course, the most basic and on a global scale the most widely used form of locomotion. The notion that some members of the hipster-yuppie axis of coddled wimps can ‘accidentally hit’ on the concept of walking through the city rather indicates a depraved
separation between people and their environments - a separation mediated by cars, cellular phones, television, urban design, etc. And this
separation must be fairly thorough and profound for someone to even invent a term such as ‘urban hiking.’ Of course, this separation isn’t
so thorough that everyone invests in its perpetuation.
‘Urban Hiking’ couldn’t possibly appear as an innovation to anyone other than the softest, most pathetic suburban reptiles...."
Read the rest in the blog. By the way Marci Alboher has an impressive CV worth reading visiting the blog once in a while.
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