Shooting Up on the Subway

A culture without standards, claim the naysayers, is a culture without a future.

Woman Seated Beside a Vase of Flowers — Edgar Degas (1865)

Whilst riding the New York subway, I discovered a new and empowering alternate universe.

As one chunters toward Manhattan, painfully clear is the realisation of how bothersome and square one must appear to such advanced, forward-thinking people.

Ingesting the adverts plastered across the train is a…