I was never interested in politics/social issues when I was in India - mostly because it was(and still is to a great extent) rife with corruption, and partly because I was younger and interested only in friends, music and girls. But its different here in the US - things seem far more interesting to me, mostly attributed to Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, National Public Radio and Stephen Colbert(in that order). People have a voice, and it is heard - whatever the medium may be - audio, video or text. In no other country do they take 'Freedom of speech' this literally or seriously. You can pretty much say anything you want about anyone you want - yes, you can call the President a 'dumb fuck' on TV/Radio in front of millions, and wake up alive the next day....very unlikely in India.
And there are many issues out there being publicly debated. So here you go, I write about how I feel about some controversial issues with a healthy headcount on both sides of the argument, recently made popular by the mainstream and not-so-mainstream media.
Initially, I thought I was going to discuss all issues in one blog, and started off with 'Abortion' and it very quickly snowballed into a multi-paragraph argument(I had no clue I would have so much to say - I'm obviously a really bad planner). So this is going to be a 'multi-blog' series and here are some of the issues I feel like talking about:
Abortion
Gay Rights
Global Warming
Iraq
Islam
Religion and God
2008 Presidential Campaign
Vegetarianism
Stay tuned!
Guetta out of the grounds I say.
14 years ago
3 comments:
friends, music and girls!! no wonder you didn't put that "(in that order)" thingie for this one! Interesting thoughts...looking forward to some of the other topics.
5 months into marriage has taught me a few things ;)
hey, interesting posts. i just started writing a blog myself. So, any comments would be genuinely appreciated. Oh, would love to have an exchange of thoughts on some of the topics you have listed.
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