As la dérive, drifting was an essential component of the "revolution of everyday life" to those idlers par excellence, the Situationists. In order to free the senses from the "tyranny of the ordinary," Guy Debord & Co. would drop their usual motives for movement and allow themselves to drift across the urban terrain, driven hither and thither by the winds of desire. The drifter is not, however, to be confused with the person who lives a life of lax desultoriness. See: FLÂNEUR, SAUNTER.