The push is on to identify and prosecute looters and vandals caught on digital images during the rampage following the Vancouver Canucks’ loss of the final Stanley Cup game.  I suggest that people take a moment to look deeper into the events of Wednesday June 15.  They provide a rare opportunity to see contemporary Canadian culture more clearly.  The nihilistic orgy of self-gratification can tell us a lot about what we are becoming.  It is like a lens focused on what happens when we are degraded from producers into consumers, from creative into passive beings, and from a society seeking happiness into a mass of individuals seeking fun.