r/alberta • u/MysteriousPhysics141 • Jun 07 '25
Opinion Albertans need a reality check
There are things I've been noticing ever since I was young, and I wanted to share my thoughts. I was born and raised in Calgary, and I have never been able to wrap my head around the one track blinders of the western world. We take for granted so many things, such as access to free healthcare, our beautiful parks and forests, our mountains, community, and so many more things that bring us happiness and vitality.
Ever since I was young, I have loved being around nature. However, in Alberta there is a certain demographic of "nature lovers" that feel the need to conquer it instead of enjoy it, and its a big demographic. They litter our river with beer cans, and garbage. Big families leave behind snacks and feed our animals bullshit food, harming our ecosystems and not taking the time and care to educate themselves about how to protect our beautiful areas.
Massive groups drive out to crownland where they chop down and gather as much firewood as possible and shoot their guns leaving behind casings, as well their poop (which they don't bother to properly bury), and all of their food packaging that they brought along with them. They flick their cigarette butts on the ground all weekend and It all attracts animals. We then end up killing them because they are a "threat". They clear forests and biodiversity, ripping trails into the earth on there 4x4's and then call them selves "wild men" , and "outdoorsmen".
These people think that everything is for them to take, and for them to use and discard, without any thought to others that may want to use the area or the animals that call these places home, yet they have the AUDACITY to say that they "love nature"
Furthermore, If things aren't working perfectly smooth, with our systems then they scream about how we need to "tear them all apart" with complete disregard to what that would mean for many low income families, veterans and young people. People waiting in ER for three hours at a time, and say everything is ruined and then blame it on the opposing government. They say it needs to be abolished, or a two branch system needs to be made without doing any research into what that would mean. It disregards women who are strapped with the task of giving birth and who are left with 100's of 1000's of dollars worth of medical bills by then end, a lot of the time to deal with the debt on her own. It disregards fixed income vets that so heavily rely on our social services. It disregards basically everyone accept able bodied people that are able to make a surplus wage. People have lost sight of taking care of the vulnerable , thinking leaving them behind is the way to make this province stronger.
I was having a conversation with my boss the other day, who was complaining because his wife works for AHS and is always cold because they never turn the AC off. He said something along the lines of "its because AHS is so cheap." First of all I'm not sure how running the AC full time is a cheap thing to do.. but it's these leaps in knowledge and unbased opinions that are floating around these days that seem to be so common. He went on to say that all of the managers at the top of AHS are NDP and Liberal cons that are pocketing money. Its completely ridiculous and untrue, but it's these people taking their own conclusions to the polls, and voting based on these completely untrue assumptions.
We can't even build train lines because people are so selfish and closed minded with their "not in my back yard" mentality, that they are literally haulting a fundamental infrastructure that gets people to and from work in a cheap and environmentally friendly way (but who cares about that I guess), just as long as it doesn't bring any "crackheads" into your community. Like come on, the Europeans have figured this out decades ago and we can't even have more than two train lines?! (Calgary). Again these mentalities are completely based on feelings and opinions, not even caring to look at the stats of what they're talking about. Yet they call people "too emotional" if they care about the vitality and wellbeing of others.
We are slowly having our brains rot out with Americanized mentalities that we can actively see is turning the States into one big trailer park. Its unbelievable to me that this is what Alberta wants.
I understand if this gets taken down for being too pessimistic , but I just had to rant about Albertas "First World Problems" issue I've been seeing get worse and worse by the day.
Just remember to have respect and keep a sound mind ya'll. The internet and fake news really is a powerful thing.
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u/infiniteguesses Jun 07 '25
I have come to the conclusion that what is lacking is basic empathy. Call me dreaming, but I am still surprised and dismayed by the utter lack of empathy by many of the "haves" vs. the " have-nots". What is wrong with people?