Cuba is going to look GREAT with McDonalds golden arches everywhere! Twitter strikes again... what self entitled, sanctimonious jerks. Grrrrrr, this crap really chaps my hide! Heres a few more: Wish Id got to see Cuba before McDonalds set up shop The US opening up Cuba is huge news. Cuba is an amazing country...hope it doesnt get ruined with Starbucks & McDonalds on every corner. So Havana is going to be ruined now and you cant have your bucolic vacation getaway anymore. Poor little you! Reminds me of when I was in Lao in my favorite north village and I over heard a group of American backpackers complain about how the village was ruined now because they had gotten electricity and running water. As if it was some sort of theme park and not like, full of real people. I debated them for an hour and they still didnt get it, for them it WAS all about them... and not about real peoples lives. Im still pissed off about it. Will Wilkinson says it better than I can in my seething rage: Look, I totally understand the sentiment. There is something singular and vivid about a vibrant, tropical ruin frozen in the 1950s. Cuba is a showcase of dilapidated anti-commercial mid-century nostalgia, and I too sort of wish I had gone to see it, just as I wouldn’t mind having seen Soviet Leningrad. Come to think of it, it would be pretty interesting to see the slave ships coming into harbor in prebellum Savannah. What a scene those auctions must have been! But the human part of me, the moral part, as opposed to the aesthetic and amorally curious tourist part, can only regret that slaving Savannah and communist Russia lasted as long as they did, and today I can be nothing but hopeful that something like freedom is finally coming to the Cubans. If it does, and I make it to Havana, and see a McDonald’s, I will walk into that McDonalds, buy a large Diet Coke, and pour a little on the ground in half-sincere mourning for the pretty, impoverished theme park of tyranny I never had the chance to see. LISTEN UP FOLKS, CUBANS ARE NOT EXTRAS IN YOUR VACATION MOVIE!
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:05:01 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015