Zero Parades: How the World Cancelled Joy and Learned to Love the Silence
From the moment the calendar flipped to 2024, the planet’s loudest streets have been suspiciously quiet. Rio’s samba drums are packed away like guilty secrets, Tokyo’s confetti cannons have been pawned for rent money, and even Paris—city of perpetual self-congratulation—has mothballed the Bastille Day tanks “for budgetary reasons.” Welcome to the age of the Zero…