This is a writing of Walter Ciszek SJ from 1963 - as he returned to the US from Russia

http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10706

He begins so:

 "My plane landed at Idlewild International Airport, at 6:55 A. M., in the gray dawn of October 12, 1963. All during the long flight from Moscow, I had wondered what it would be like to see the United States again after 24 years in the Soviet Union, mostly in Siberia...."

I find interesting how he saw us after 24 years in that faraway land, cars houses, hot water, food, waste of paperr and so on? Plus, I wonder,  what his impressions would be today after 45 years of the writing of this article?

The same comparison and impressions still would be valid today, or very similar, unfortunately. Notwithstanding the technical advances our wasteful lifestile did not change.