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Unemployment, a general sense of apathy that the government cant or wont fix whats broken, that in the corridors of power in london, in edinboro, they just dont give a shit about glasgow. especially glasgows east side. like a lot of cities, like most cities, in fact, glasgow is divided. the river clyde divides the north and south sides, but the bigger more tangible divide is between east and west. the west, things are expected to be, well, nice. nice cars, nice families, all the nice stuff that ...

Elsewhere. hard times, unemployment, a general sense of apathy that the government cant or wont fix whats broken, that in the corridors of power of london, they just dont give a shit about glasgow. especially glasgows east side. like a lot of cities, like most cities, in fact, glasgow is divided. the river clyde divides the north and south sides, but the bigger more tangible divide is between east and west. the west, things are expected to be, well, nice. nice cars, nice families, all the nice s...

Corridors of power of london, they just dont give a shit about glasgow. especially glasgows east side. like most cities, glasgow is divided. the river collide divides the north and south sides but the bigger, more tangible divide is between the east and west. the west, things are expected to be, well, nice. nice cars, nice families, all the nice stuff that affluence supposedly brings. east side, thats where you grow up hard, where things are rougher, where youve got, according to popular legend,...

Government cant or wont fix whats broken, that in the corridors of power of london, they just dont give a shit about glasgow. especially glasgows east side. like most cities, glasgow is divided. the river divides the north and south sides, but the bigger more tangible divide is between east and west. the west, things are expected to be, well, nice. nice cars, nice families, all the nice stuff that affluence supposedly brings. east side, thats where you grow up hard, where things are rougher, whe...

Elsewhere. hard times, unemployment, a general sense of apathy that the government cant or wont fix whats broken, that in the corridors of power of london, they just dont give a shit about glasgow. especially glasgows east side. like most cities, glasgow is divided. the river divides the north and south sides, but the bigger more tangible divide is between east and west. the west, things are expected to be, well, nice. nice cars, nice families, all the nice stuff that affluence supposedly brings...

Right? so the vets are particularly vulnerable because theyre coming home. weve adapted to this but were all suffering from this alienation. and you see it in -- apache werent committing suicide. they werent depressed. they had their troubles but mental illness was not one of those problems. >> i remember tom wolfe, this is back in the 90s, and its a number that stuck -- a quote that stuck with me, i think it was the 30th anniversary of the "rolling stone" issue and he said what a great irony th...

Door step. apparently the further away youre fighting, the less intuitive sense it makes to the civilian population. >> so it comes down to the fact that you serve four five multiple tours in afghanistan or iraq you return to the united states where less than 1% of the population also serves in the same venture that youve been occupied with for most of your adult life. >> yeah. the thing about that 1% -- >> youre isolated from the rest of society. >> you have a very cohesive intense human experi...

Highest levels in our history. >> and higher than vietnam. >> thats right. vie either the trend has continued. so what i realized talking to anthropologists who worked in societies all over the world is that the more cohesive a society, the better people can recover from trauma. and thats true for everybody. so as wealth goes up and affluence goes up all mental health issues go up. suicide, depression, anxiety. >> wow. >> so we have a 20% rate here in the u.s. for returning vets. israel only 1%....

Economies in the world and also one of the cleanest in the world. and ecan get cleaner by addressing global warming and climate challenges. >> this is significantly from the monies already committed. i think it would be a whole different game. pat, what do you think of that? >> ill tell you this, the richer a country, the more it protects its environment. countries with vibrant economies are clean countries. >> not china. they trash their air. >> thats because they arent affluent enough yet. whe...

Of life for her, it was a better way of life for her family. he sent money back to the family. helped some of her nieces and nephews go to school. >> michelle and jonathan married in the philippines, moved to the united states, had three children and lived a life of comfort and affluence. >> i know there was an age difference. i know he worked long hours, but other than that, basically, you know, you know, they are married with kids. >> but after 15 years of marriage, the walls started to crumbl...