Cuba - revisited

Rich sends the following message:

I’ve talked with two people who have visited Cuba within the last couple of years. One was on a tour & thought things were just rosy down there – hard working gentle people who were developing a fine society. The other one went down, rented a car, picked up every hitchhiker he saw, stayed in people’s homes & saw unimaginable poverty & despair – like a man who works 8 hours a day in a bottled water plant & at the end of the day hasn’t made enough to buy one quart of water that is bottled there. He considers Cuba to be run like the Mafia & Castro is the godfather. His henchmen are driving around in Mercedes, while the rest of the nation is on bicycles and 1940’s Chevy’s. Who are you going to believe? I tend to lean toward the guy who went down & lived it, even though he is a bit on the wild & crazy side.

Sure. Like I replied to Rich, it's all in the angle from which you view the world that makes your reality. If someone were to visit our country and spend a week with a right wing Republican, he would have a completely different view of us than if that same week were spent with a left wing Democrat, or a Libertarian, or an anarchist. He could visit uptown New York or downtown New York, or coal mining country, or soybean country, or Silicon Valley, and get entirely disparate ideas. There are slums and there are gated communities. I recently took a trip to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, and I wouldn't have known I was even in the same world traveling between Galveston and Port Arthur. (Hint: Unless you're just overly fond of oil refineries and poverty, choose Galveston.)

Truth is subjective (and ever changing). All you get from YWA is my truth. You have your own.

Enjoy it if you can.

Thanks, for the reminder, Rich. Did you drink that beer yet?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.