Having spent a week in Cuba, I am left with the impression that it is the exact opposite of the United States, and that's not a bad thing.
Cuba suffers material poverty but enjoys spiritual wealth; all of the people I met were kindhearted, happy to be alive, polite, well adjusted, and eager to improve themselves and their communities. The United States boasts material prosperity but is a spiritual toilet; people are rude, crude, entitled, mentally deranged or strung out on psychotropic drugs, care only about gratifying their id, and have no sense of community or righteousness.
Cuba has a culture and the "mystic chords of memory" that give people an identity and a purpose. The United States has no culture anymore and no shared historical memory, since everyone is his own god and regards any sort of taboo as an unjust imposition.
Cuba is trying to learn from its mistakes and is experimenting with sweeping changes to allow more freedom. The United States has learned nothing from the clear lessons of history, but rather continues to centralize power, destroy freedom, and piss away the greatest patrimony ever received.
Cubans have real problems and dig deep to overcome them. Americans have no real problems, but rather invent them to overcome the meaninglessness and boredom that their spoiled status generates. For example, the first news item I saw upon returning concerned the hysteria surrounding a "sequester" of a tiny percentage of the grotesquely inflated federal budget -- Americans have become so addicted to government plunder that they cannot imagine surviving without it. Please go to Cuba and learn something, you fools.
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