What I try to convey here, and in the column linked therein, is a kind of lay-of-the-land of why things are as they are. It's more explainer than take. I think these parades are as they are because there's enthusiasm for them as they exist, paired with a sense of futility about changing course.
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I am, as readers new and old may have gathered, a woman of many fixations, not all of them productive.
