Christian America. Good America.

Today, we stand at a crucial time in the history of humanity. Over the period of the past few decades, the world has evolved and grown exponentially in its thirst for knowledge, power, morality and peace. The result is this world where nations with oppressive and tyrannical regimes are collapsing, for better or worse. A world where many are learning to say “yes,” and even more are learning to say “no.” The 99% are, finally, learning to stand up and take up that which is rightfully theirs from the fat-pig corporations. America, as has been the history of the world in the past two centuries, is the crucible where the world is changing dynamically and, even more so, radically.

Rick Santorum is one of the front-runners for the 2012 presidential elections, for the Republicans. But of course, the Republicans also have Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, and the Democrats are throwing in their bit for the competition, which in my honest opinion doesn’t even look serious; thus crafting a race between the current President Barrack Obama, for the Democrats, and the Republicans. Now for those of you not in the know, Rick Santorum is a right-winged fundamentalist; and a Roman Catholic at that. Well this is generally true for most Republicans, isn’t it? Absolutely. However, where Santorum takes the cake is that he is ultra-grounded in his religion and draws the line wherever the Church may ask him to. He is a proponent of home schooling, pseudo-unification of church and state, opposed to abortion, homosexuality and contraception. Yes, you read that right, he is opposed to condoms and any form of contraception. Some pearls of wisdom from the great:

“I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely … The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.” - On education

"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," - On separation of church and state

“I am pro-life. I believe human life begins at conception. It’s at this moment that the organism is complete — yes, immature, but complete. An embryo is nascent human life.” - On abortions

“I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships.” - On homosexuality

“You either open up those facilities, you begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities through air strikes – and make it very public that we are doing that.” - On Iran's Nuclear program

“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country….Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's OK, contraception is OK. It's not OK. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.” - On contraception

As is evident from his outspoken beliefs, Santorum is looking forward to creating a United States of America which, as he strongly believes, is founded on the grounds of faith and religion; to be more precise, Roman Catholicism. The rise of Christian fundamentalism in America is the power upon which Rick and other Republicans stand. This fundamentalism stems essentially from the fear of dwindling Christian dominance in the nation with the LGBT and atheists standing up for their rights, and the swelling multi-religious migrant communities. The slow recovery of the economy coupled with the rising levels of unemployment is also pushing the people to find solace and haven in their faith; forcing them to look for a higher meaning or purpose in life’s problems. This applies not only to Santorum, but also to the entire Republican brigade of right-wingers. The result is a nation which wishes to be built on not the freedom of religion, but religion itself. Many, of course, take this as an omen. Not me.

I look forward to an America which is fundamentalist, extremely religious, intolerant and tyrannical (Yes, tyrannical it has always been, just saying.) The outcome of this radicalism will be a force of greater good for the world at large. How? You may ask. Or maybe you think I’m berserk. Permit me to explain.

The first step will be oppressing the LGBT, atheists, non-Christians (primarily Muslims). For starters, this radicalism will either force the LGBT & other oppressed into their closets all over again, or will force them out of their country; latter being the more likely of the two, and Europe looking to be their best possible refuge at this stage in time. This exodus, think Jews during Hitler, will create the foundation for an even more diverse and tolerant Europe, making America look like the dictatorial big brother it has always denied being.

The next stage will be curtailing freedoms of speech and action, which will adversely, and very strongly, affect the media, film makers and music makers, thereby forcing many to opt out of the country. The smaller corporations and entrepreneurs will soon follow suit and either be hived off or move out. The larger corporations may follow. The end result will be a new wave of entrepreneurial resurgence in Europe and other regions. There will very well be a band of individuals – artists, corporate, politicians – who, being vile cunning foxes, will aid these changes and developments with the ultimate aim of gaining greater powers during ailing times. They of course will be of little interest to the outside world unlike years after their death (Richard Strauss & Adolf Ziegler during Nazi Germany). The world economies and powers will move away from being, unofficially, uni-polar to being officially multi-polar. This will hopefully be enough of a demotivator for the country and hence stop them from minding others’ businesses like in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hopefully, thus creating a balanced world where nations like Iran are free to start their own nuclear programs without fear of being destroyed. Of course with greater power will come greater responsibility where the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the likes will count.

With the banning of contraception, abortion, stem cell research and genetic engineering, we are bound to have multiple fallouts. The birth rates will soar tremendously, as is obvious, probably leading to a stage where we may see a One-child policy, as seen in China. But probably never a retraction of the contraception ban, unless the Catholic Church and its pedophilia ignoring Pope decide to change their stand. Stem-cell research and Genetic engineering laws are bound to force research projects out of the country, leading to an exodus by the pharmaceutical biggies. Probably you may argue that the corporations may not move out and only move the research outside. Try explaining that to the crowds when they stage protests banning research by corporations within or without the US of A.

Education will simultaneously be a victim of religious intolerance. With creationism being taught in science in many public schools already, children will accept it as a science and thereby confuse their foundations of evidence and beliefs. Institutes of higher education and universities will be victims as well when they will notice the drop in international student applications. Not to forget that many of the best brains, students and professors alike, being atheists and gay, will have moved base, thereby creating a vacuum in the high standards which have been a benchmark for the world to look up to. Then, probably will be the time when the education bubble will finally burst and thus cause the long awaited crunch in the very inflated sector.

To summarize, it is crucial that we do not thwart any attempts of the impeding American collapse. It will bring in a new era of growth, knowledge and PEACE to the world. We will not prevent America's suicide attempt, but at the same time, encourage openness within our own people and be ready to welcome the intellectuals into our lives. Who knows, maybe the next Darwin/Einstein will rise from the ashes in our midst!

Special thanks to Deepa Kamath, Vinci Mojamdar, Prashin Jagger for their inputs. A very special tip of the hat to Shrikant Sreenivasan for permitting me to post on his blog.
Written by Varun Jagger.

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▌The first time I knew about blogs and I was like why would you waste your time writing some crap rather save that time up for something useful. You see, human mind is really weird. It controls you some or the other way depending upon what you think about certain things in life. It's called as perspective. And to change this 'perspective' is sometimes difficult and sometimes really easy. The more you question yourself or others, the better you become because it's all about gaining knowledge and improving yourself. By questioning, your perspective changes depending upon the answers and your mind set. After talking to few people who are bloggers, thankfully I changed my perspective on writing blogs. Now I take it as a means of sharing your knowledge, views, opinions with other people online. May be you can't write a book and publish it but you can write a blog any day and publish it the same time and it gets so many hits or few hits, may be some likes or comments too.
                                                                   
This is the first time I am writing a blog related to one of my favorite hobbies, passion or whatever you want to call it - ART. Art is a way of speaking, spreading, questioning, answering, relating or I must simply say art is the expression of truth. Expressions can be fake in terms of our facial expressions, you can always act happy when you are sad or vice versa but through art you speak the truth from the inside. It's more of a heart game than your mind. It's a process that starts from your heart, goes to your mind then the instrument. Art is a medium through which we express our emotions or ideas to many people. It varies from different people, their emotions, their experience, their thoughts etc. Art has many forms within itself. It has many ways of expressing or communicating. I choose to express my feelings in the form of Music. Some people choose to express theirs in the form of Drawing, Painting, Theater Acting, Photography, Dance etc.
                                                                 
Music is a form of art as it lets you express your emotions. You show your true self through music and so it communicates with many kinds of people in the world. Of course there are instances where people don't like it or are against it. That's important everywhere. It's called as balancing ░Positive and Negative░ Music can be your God for sure as people say God exists everywhere. Humans have made religion a big fuzz. Stories made into Reality, False forcibly converted into Truth, Energies/Forces made into Deities. It's made to divide oneself from our true self for may be political reasons or something else. But what I feel is that art has a spiritual connection within people. Spiritual doesn't mean religious. Lets consider the power of music. People get connected to a kind of music because that is what even they feel or that is what communicates the best. Music can be understood by many but realized by a few. It takes lot of time to realize or get into the deeper aspects or  dimensions of music. Of course some people still enjoy it without realizing its power. In the materialistic sense, you may not be understanding lot of things. But you'd still love it because it matches your wavelength somehow, which some people don't wish to find out why or how.
░A simple example:- You listen to a sad song and the moment you hear it or may be after some time you cry or you listen to a happy/aspiring song and as the days go by you still listen to it and do something great after listening to it or if you listen to an aggressive song, you tend to release your energies out on someone or something. After all this releasing out of energies, it's the "I feel great" feeling, meaning you are in peace :)

It's quite beautiful if you sit back and just think how you speak through music and people actually understand what you mean through that music. Art is such a beautiful way of expressing your emotions and sharing your thoughts/ideas with people around the world. Art has no communication gap if you understand it really well. It can heal you the best possible way if you take it positively. ░Realization is the ultimate achievement. ▌
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