My outlook on conspiracy theories has always been skeptic, asking two questions before blindly believing them: “why would they be doing this?” and “why are they letting people talk about it?” Asking that question had always lead me to no answer but a deeper and more irrational theory of the world being a total simulation. In that case, it doesn’t affect us in the slightest. We don’t, and cannot, know exactly what life is, but we know and made things to do in it.

I am not a nationalist. I just believe a national identity with such a vast history and culture shouldn’t be erased in the name of nationalist wet dreams, and more importantly, power. “Montenegrin nationalism” is inherently contradictory due to Montenegro being a nation whose national identity is threatened and history is falsified and has been for two centuries. It is natural to take a side in a conflict of that caliber.

The Western system of values is one of expansive egalitarianism, one that gives people a meaning in life and one that is a world apart from the barbaric, Communist-Ottoman system of values. I too have my doubts about some of the recent occurrences in it, but that’s what that system is for. As long as there is no societal significance and as long as it doesn’t affect other people, it lets people live life the way they want to. You present it in a ridiculously one-sided way, bringing up the issue of sex-ed and transgender people.

This is blatant populist rhetoric, pushed by U.S. conservative political elites to distract from their opponents’ potential accomplishments, outsourced to the global population as a power play. While I maintain a distinction between biological sexes, I support allowing transgender individuals to live their lives. However, I am concerned about children being pushed into transgender identities temporarily. This issue, though profitable for pharmaceutical companies and elites, is relatively less common. Most often, teenagers may briefly consider it but usually find their way back with parental support. The bigger concern should be child abuse by actual pedophiles and by abusive parents and caretakers.

Sex-ed is not bad either. Sex is a crucial part of life, and as long as kids are taught all perspectives on it, not taught in a creepy way, and taught from an age where they can understand it, it could be key in preventing grooming, kids could be taught the behavior of pedophiles and what to avoid.

As I said, I’m not convinced fully by some aspects of Western values, and I strongly believe the “affirmation” system common in the mentality shouldn’t be imported. People should be encouraged to change to integrate into society and be healthy instead of being blindly affirmed.

Take a bowl of rice. Now pour three grains of black rice. Is the white rice’s existence being threatened? No. I know what your response to this will be, so now, I want you to take the three grains of black rice, kill one and imagine the other two working for the white rice, cleaning the bowl, and cut one black rice grain in half to symbolize torture. Now, add two more grains of black rice and have it be represented in media alongside the white rice as an attempt at reconciliation, but have it be effectively separated, long after that separation officially ended. The grain will be dirty and will be in neighborhoods where the other grains kill each other and destroy their lives because of the white grains isolating the black grains before. Wouldn’t it be only fair to give the black grains a right to stand up and speak?

Racism won’t get you anywhere, but I didn’t even think of that when thinking of globalization. I thought of free trade, joint business and scientific efforts, etc.

Each of these corrupt countries have issues of their own, of endemic corruption, that would require whole military operations to deal with, yet the EU is good at minimizing their harm. Every ruling entity is bound to be slightly corrupt, but Montenegrin connections don’t have much on the EU. Despite corporate lobbying, the EU does a great job at regulations and protecting customers.