Here is one telling of the events of early August. Victims of terror violence in Britain were used to being handled in a certain way. This was ‘Controlled Spontaneity’: a choreographed spectacle of compulsory togetherness, activated whenever a tragedy of this kind occurred.
The objective of Controlled Spontaneity is to create enough display, theatre, and, above all, noise to displace any natural feelings of grief or reflection among the victims. The crashing cymbals of brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, the ‘chicken burgers’ of James Corden. Huge bodies of people are immediately dropped at the scene of the crime to crowd out the bereaved. After the London Bridge attack of 2017 “a hundred imams” were dispatched with speed to the borough of Southwark.
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