City of no soul

posted June 22nd, 2018 at 3:22 PM

Money runs this place and if you aren't flush with cash you are only in the way to the policy makers who are cashing in left and right. We are being played for fools and no one can do anything about it because you're either profiting from this scheme or struggling too hard to do anything but live day by day. The working people of Vancouver being exploited is a mental health crisis waiting to explode. The government doesn't care about the people, the companies don't care about the people, the medical system doesn't care about the people and there is no more community to speak of. The opioid crisis and cannabis dependency are such obvious results of such a toxic environment. Vancouver's own Dr Gabor Mate wrote a book about drug abuse being a result of broken societies and UBC is where the rat park experiment proved that well cared for beings don't seek comfort through supplements. People of the generations before us mostly had oblivion to rely on. We have to seek our oblivion in craft beer, sparkling rosé and Instagram reality because knowing how badly we are being screwed over on every level is too much for our spirits to handle. Vancouver is a prime example of the "could not beat them so I joined them" mentality.

10 Comments

registereduser

Jun 22, 2018 at 5:20pm

I'm in sales and talk to 20 or 30 people everyday living and working in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland and none of them sound like any of the 70% of woe is me posts on the GS...do you think it doesn't take money to live in Toronto or Montreal or New York or London or Paris? People work hard everywhere in the world to get by.

Cannabis 'Dependency?' >.<

Jun 22, 2018 at 6:38pm

Other than that glaring error I pretty much agree with 90% of what you've written.

@registurduser

Jun 22, 2018 at 8:11pm

Wow, you cannot compare Vancouver to Toronto, Montreal and certainly not NYC or London. Vancouver's ranks in the third tier in all word city rankings. It's way overpriced for city of it's (un)importance. That's the the kind of brainwashed cult Vancouver apologist nonsense that doesn't help matters at all. Wake up and smell the world view.

Huh?

Jun 22, 2018 at 8:44pm

@registerduser

Vancouver's a bit of a backwater. The greater Van area is a population of 2.2 million but somehow it feels like a large town as opposed to some megalopolis like New York or London. Even Toronto had a bit of a city vibe compared to Vancouver. New York, London and Paris are the cultural capitals of the world whereas Vancouver has very little culture and Vancouver certainly isn't a financial capital. The only thing Vancouver has in common with London's financial district is money laundering, other than that it doesn't have a financial district. I think you've been drinking the kool-aid. Your comparisons aren't relative.

Yes

Jun 22, 2018 at 10:21pm

Pretty much this. There are so many parallels between modern day Vancouver (cannabis, etc), and China during the Opium wars, it'll drive you crazy.

Cannabis?

Jun 22, 2018 at 10:24pm

It's only around 15% of all people that have even tried it in the last year,last time I checked.
A small percent use it monthly,and the best estimate is 3-4% use on a very regular basis.
Compare that with alcohol,etc. And I don't even smoke the stuff,so you can't accuse me of being a stoner trying to justify his habit....

@Registereduser

Jun 22, 2018 at 10:41pm

Someone once said Vancouver is like a teenage girl that discovers one day that people fond her attractive, and from that moment on makes no effort to better herself better herself in terms of culture, education or manners as it all seems so easy. Nothing up stairs, but what a staircase. It really is overpriced for what it is. The only other city that you can compare it to in San Diego not any of those that you mentioned. A bland city with great views.

People come to GS confessions to say confess or vent. In the real world we can't say what we really think, that would be inharmonious. If GSC doesn't work for you, move on.

Very

Jun 23, 2018 at 1:24am

Well put.

Insightful I agree!

Jun 23, 2018 at 2:48am

Yeah I loved Gabor Mate's stuff. I particularily like his views on stress and cancer rates, namely the argument that stress is more correlatable with cancer rates than anything, and that it could very well be more of a root cause compounded by the behaviours we turn to - to, how to say, dealio.