the pond-draining spect-op: the spectation era under Gentle and Lace-Forché — "demonstrations, rallies, marches, displays of Canadian…"

The O.N.A.N. dispensation framed as a total condition: "Whole new millennial era, under Gentle and Lace-Forché. Total freedom, privacy, choice" — the regime's own slogan-triad, ironized by a citizenry so privatized it now hungers to "stand live witness to things." In the catalogue of public spect-ops the anthology's politics surface in one clause: alongside fires and rallies, the crowds gather for "displays of Canadian insurgency" — the anti-O.N.A.N. war has itself become a spectator category, terrorism absorbed into the entertainment-market of eyes. (The passive-spectation philosophy and the "sofas-and-eyes" market are entertainment-self's; landed here is the Gentle/Lace-Forché era-frame and insurgency-as-spectacle.)