Resilience is that! A great lesson in British etiquette
(B2) Resilience has become a fashionable word, allowing you to say anything and everything. A term so overused that it sometimes becomes quite incomprehensible. On this ground, we can prefer actions. Faithful to a long tradition, resilient in the face of adversity, the British have just demonstrated to us this weekend what this word can mean.
Despite all the fears, they insisted on organizing a large public concert in Manchester on Sunday (June 4), bringing together nearly 50.000 people around stars like Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and Ariana Grande. While the threat was not theoretical... - the deadly attack in London had shown this the day before - this reaction from the population, the pop scene and the British authorities is the right one. We must not stop and stop everything…
This " One Love Manchester “, not tearful for a penny, a little syrupy certainly, but joyful, lyrical and finally loaded with unsaid, is worth all the lockdown idiots that we have seen in the past, who were more a reflection of fear and improvisation (read: Crisis management of the Brussels lockdown: a total and surreal improvisation).
(NGV)
