Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 189
Pre-Parade
You may not know the name Pre-Parade, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
Every colony has a notice board and a gossip channel. The notice board informs; the channel decides. Wise residents read the first and audit the second.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. No ceremony needed. Begin with the very next decision.