The Lesser Violence

Most modern media focuses on the subjects
that offend the public easiest: outrage.

That the rap trio Kneecap outrage others
so easily almost makes their act have a grace
all of it's own, or means that outrage is cheap.
Choose for yourself with that one.

But the outraged forget/don't want know
why what outrages them does so. They just react.

The verb 'to kneecap' means to seriously damage
someone's patella or kneecap, so as to disable them.
I admire a band whose name is both a verb and noun.  

The history of the internal discipline applied
by non-government forces in the disputed province
of Northern Ireland is long one. Relatively few
were killed, but the deaths there were made headlines.
What made fewer headlines, but was equally personal,
was the more common fear of life-changing injuries. 

So for a band to name themselves by what made
the headlines less often and make themselves headliners
makes their act remarkable in itself. And the music?
It is the usual amphetamine fuelled rap and sampling
that simulates the impression of life going by so fast
that what is actually happening is hardly noticed
in the mad rush of the soundtrack, where the point
becomes more that their videos are surreal high speed fun.

I will follow them more easily when they slow down with old age.