September 23, 2003
Cienfuegos, Cuba

This morning, after breakfast as I was on my way out, the husband of the Casa called me over to introduce me to some friends, a couple, the husband of whom is a philosophy professor. We promised to talk later tonight and so on the way over here I began to think [...]

September 22
12:30 p.m. Viazul Bus Station
Habana, Cuba
L. Althusser makes a good point - while the sense of community in socialism is so much greater, the methods of production alienate the worker from the object being produced. In the United States designers, programmers, artists, inventors, builders take great pride in their products wheter it be the [...]

September 20, 2003
El Jardin del Oriente
Habana Vieja, Cuba

"Absolute ideas must take relative forms if they are not to fail because of an error in form. Freedom, to be viable, has to be sincere and complete. If a republic refuses to open its arms to all, and move ahead with all, it dies."
Jose Marti- "Our America"

"Nations [...]

September 17, 2003
Habana, Cuba
Cafe Restaurante El Louvre

A lot of first impressions of Habana. One of the strongest is that I feel intimidated … a feeling I haven’t had traveling for a long long while. Probably not since Bangkok in 1999. Jesus, more than four years ago. Sometimes it shocks me that [...]

Update: The tone of this post gives the impression that Peter and I had different experiences in Cuba because I am somehow more qualified than he. To be entirely honest, that is probably how I felt. But after reading this comment and doing some more thinking, I’ve come to the conclusion that Peter and I [...]