"The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images." - Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord

After the Stanley Cup riot of 1994, a Georgia Straight article, titled "Stupidville" pondered: "[Vancouverites] had better decide what we want this community to be about, besides pretty vistas when it doesn't rain. What shared tasks can we undertake whose achievement will fill us with civic pride? What conditions are needed to come to unconditionally love this place, not for where it is, but for what it is?" But after 15 years of more pretty vistas and nature fetishism, we have failed to produce "something nobler than a mob heading to Stupidville," as the Straight hoped.