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What to do if you're cold during the holidays

  The Christmas and New Year holidays are approaching. Of course, Christmas is supposed to be a family holiday, which means celebrating Christmas at our homes with our closest family members and  friends . However, we also like to spend the New Year holidays in a wider society and outside the home or even abroad. During both holidays, we can feel the social pressure to have an "outfit" or a special style of clothing, the decorativeness of ourselves and our surroundings. What style or "outfit" we will choose for the upcoming holidays should be our personal choice, or our personal freedom. In all clothing stores, this year's holiday hits and/or fashionable dresses are already hanging. During the holidays, it will also be important or we should not ignore the fact that our style or "outfit" will be in accordance with the weather. December is, in addition to January, especially in our areas, the month when the temperatures are the lowest in winter and very...

Social Moral Pressures

  A long time ago, I was engaged in the debate about delinquency and deviance. Very simply put, deviations in society are those behaviors and actions that are not prohibited by law. Delinquency or delinquent actions are those that the law treats as criminal offenses. Our extremely heterogeneous society also likes to judge and pass judgment on areas of our culture that do not concern official judicial channels or prosecution or conviction under existing legislation. Of course, we should also take into account that our society is also supposed to be based on personal freedoms. Of course, when debating social moral pressures and judgments, we must ask ourselves about our personal culture, empathy for others. We must also ask ourselves about the possibilities of judicial or criminal prosecution of those who deprive us of our personal freedoms. Of course, we also need to debate why we should deprive others of their personal freedoms and of course why we do not condemn our own or other ...

The good and bad side of social networks

  Nowadays, every individual in our society counts on well-developed social networks, or friendships and acquaintances. This means that each individual is worth more with every important and socially reputable acquaintance or friend. And this social network is becoming our value and priority in our everyday life. In the past, and also in the present, we should be proud of our own value. This simply means that we should first present our references. In practice, this means that we introduce ourselves with our first and last name, as well as our education, work achievements and social position. This is then our own socio-social value, which is possibly lost if we present ourselves with our social network and thus also the downside of creating and using our social networks. The good side of social networks is transformed into a completely different social side of everyday life when we use our own social references. In this case, our individuality stands out. Those other individuals o...

What is happening with migration?

   The European Union (EU) faced a migrant explosion in 2015 with more than a million migrants. The following year, 2016, this catastrophic situation normalized to a number below 400,000. The following year, the number of migrants fell below an acceptable 200,000 and continued to fall below 100,000 until 2023. In 2023, the number of migrants rose above 200,000 again and then began to decline again until this year, 2025. However, in this unfinished year, more than 100,000 foreign migrants crossed the EU borders. Despite the imminent outbreak of war in Ukraine due to the invasion of Russian military units and increasing financial or even economic pressure, the EU is still struggling with an ever-higher number of migrants, to whom the EU is still the promised paradise. This year, more than 12,000 people illegally entered the EU, which is a much smaller number than in previous years. No matter how one assesses the problems or even the benefits of migration in the EU, migration po...

Day of reformation

  In the post-liberation or post-independence period or after the rebirth of the independent state of Slovenes, we began to commemorate or celebrate Reformation Day since 1992. The Reformation, which many have known since the 16th century and is said to be a religious Catholic Reformation or a revaluation of the Catholic faith, brought the first Slovenian printed books to Slovenes and is therefore also considered a "cultural" and "educational" Reformation. With the Reformation, emphasis began to be placed on the education of the broad masses of people and the establishment of schools, as well as the use of native or folk languages. Some also attribute democratic principles of equality to the Reformation. The Reformation also began to spread on Slovenian soil. The following reformers contributed the most to Slovenian culture and the Slovenian language:  In 1550, Primož Trubar published the Alphabet and Catechism.  Jurij Dalmatin translated the Bible into Slovenian.  ...

Trade wars

  After 80 years of peace after World War II, the European Union is once again facing a global war threat. Airspace incursions are becoming more frequent. So are missile threats. The peaceful post-war period with more extensive and frequent meetings and even the establishment of the United Nations (UN) and the definition of borders between countries is disappearing amid a tendency to re-evaluate state borders and list the peoples in the territories. We can hear again about the mineral and mining wealth of an individual country. And also about fossil fuels. The first reaction to an invasion of foreign territory, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was actually trade sanctions, starting with a ban on imports from the country that was supposed to be the aggressor, as Russia is recognized, since it crossed the clearly delineated state borders of Ukraine with its army. Of course, speculation also immediately appeared. Some would still remain loyal to their long-standing economic a...

Kleptomania in all areas

  People are becoming more and more sympathetic to various problems of fellow human beings, including illnesses. Thus, it appears in official institutions that are supposed to act according to the Criminal Code that the so-called perpetrators of criminal acts are simply recognized as patients who are not responsible for their committed crimes. One of such errors or mistakes in labeling people as criminals who steal or illegally take people's property is also the serious disease of kleptomania. Otherwise, all experts in this field describe it as a tendency to appropriate other people's things that are not related to the essential need for this thing, but it is just an instinctive tendency to acquire other people's things. Many experts note that such kleptomaniacs and kleptomaniacs do know the feeling of guilt, or are not without a feeling of shame and/or guilt. Very often, these kleptomaniacs and kleptomaniacs also accumulate or store such taken other people's things, or...

Properly directed aggression

  Several times throughout the development period of man from early childhood to adulthood, non-violent behavior was at least sometimes pointed out. In any case, aggression should at least be corrected. This is how we should create a future peaceful, empathetic modern social and social adult. The violent primary or instinctive behavior of a person, who is very quickly in conflict with other people for the goods of life and even for power over others, should thus lead, through the historical development of a person more similar to primates or a solitary human being, who had difficulty creating a wider society, to a modern peaceful social person. At least this is how the modern educational and training model of separating a person from a primate or a human being should proceed.  Of course, in contrast to this model, the old model of at least a defensive strategy of education has reappeared. Namely, people find it difficult to live in peace with other people or groups of people. ...

Social sense

  People still like to rely on our hearts, or on the aroused heartfelt and kind-hearted or charitable feelings that are projected to us by the confessed hardships of others, the threat and exposure to violence of false and real victims. The heart is guided by the image or promotion of the victims or their confessions and stories, which can be true or imaginary. Our social-compassionate reactions, however, depend on the well-presented story of the alleged victims. The paradox of the well-presented story of the victim and the reality of real life goes so far in everyday life that we actually recognize starvation even in very well-nourished people or even in obese people, who are such without any disease that would cause bloating or obesity. On the other hand, we recognize a starving or, in colloquial terms, a thin person as someone who is deliberately losing weight, wants to have a model figure, or  some other way causes their own underweight. It is difficult to leave it to doc...

Is monogamy a joke

  The European space is also supposed to be a space of support for monogamous family unity. A monogamous community is defined as a family community of two partners. Initially, marriage was also defined as a monogamous community of two, that is, a husband and a wife. Only recently have we also known about marriage or a community of two same-sex partners. In fact, monogamy is legalized, at least in Slovenia. In Article 188 of the Criminal Code, you can find the criminal offense of bigamy, which is defined as follows: "1. Whoever enters into a new marriage, even though he is already married, shall be punished with a fine or imprisonment for up to one year. 2. The same punishment shall also be imposed on whoever enters into a marriage with a person whom he knows to be married. 3. If the previous marriage has ended or has been annulled, prosecution shall not commence, but if it has commenced, it shall be suspended." /End of quote from the Criminal Code, which defines criminal offe...

A lover can be employed, a wife cannot

Our highly cultured society also likes to boast about social support for the family. The family is supposed to be the foundation of our society. We also freely create a family and it is based on love, mutual respect and a shared household or income and expenses. However, in our society, as always, we also have paradoxes and/or contradictions between theory and practice. In the theoretical part of regulating mutual relations, including family relations, it is written that the wife or husband of a civil servant or civil servant cannot be employed in a public service. Some even describe this as nepotism or the creation of a clan of a family that would like to take over all key social functions and turn them into family functions. In the practical part of our society or everyday life, unregistered extended family members often appear in a family that is supposed to be based on monogamy between two loving partners, who are essentially lovers and mistresses. However, they are also a violatio...

The EU is being exhausted by others

  A heated debate has once again opened about the costs of our defense, as the image of the European Union (EU) as a war zone is slowly becoming clearer. Incidents of drones that "accidentally" fly into EU and/or NATO territory, as well as "errant" missiles, are turning from incidents or mistakes into a clear threat of military aggression. For several years now, the EU has actually been faced more with the threat of war or the state of war of other countries and of course also with requests for alliance and/or humanitarian aid or even military aid. The EU and/or NATO have also been faced with waves of migrants from so-called dangerous war zones outside their territory. Thus, the opinion has somehow become established that the EU is actually being faced with or is being exhausted by drawing financial resources or financial aid from other countries that cannot ensure peacetime conditions on their own. And of course, we have been faced with general comments that most E...

Inflation and GDP

  In this more than half-year period of 2025, we like to boast about a successful economy. We forgot about the deaths of the Covid-19 epidemic, which brought freed jobs and reduced unemployment. This year is also marked by an increased mortality rate of soldiers deployed to Ukraine. When assessing economic success, we also forget that we have fallen into an era of inflation. In 2025, we also like to boast about a growing GDP (gross domestic product per capita), which somehow also coincides with the observed inflation. We could console ourselves that we live better in terms of the employment rate and unemployment rate, if we do not take into account how many jobs this year's deaths free up. The employment rate has risen by 0.1 in the EU and European areas since the previous quarterly period. It is worse than the first quarter, as employment increased by 0.2% in this period. As an example, we can cite data on Slovenia in numbers. In any case, Slovenia still has a 3.2% unemployment ra...

World Population and War

  The world's human population has grown by more than 46 million this year. A little less, more precisely a little more than 41 million people, have died. The total population thus amounts to more than 8 billion and 243 million people this year. We can predict that planet Earth will soon become overpopulated in relation to the availability of terrestrial settlement space. We may also be surprised by the fact that the human population is growing in all war zones. The Yalta Agreements and the entered state borders according to world peace treaties, which are also entered on UN maps after the end of World War II, have again fallen into the military imperial games of conquering foreign territories and reducing or diminishing the population. Population of the nearby war zone Ukraine-Russia. Russia, with its almost 144 million population, has fallen into a negative 0.57% annual decline in its population. It also has a net migrant population of -251,822, as its almost three-year war with ...

History of European Peace

 This year, 2025, we mark 80 years since the end of Nazism and Fascism on European soil and we wonder whether a third world war will break out. Nazism and Fascism, which rose partly at the expense of the economic crisis, brought ruins, devastation and mass graves of soldiers who died in battles and also civilians in concentration camps or civilians killed in other ways during the war and post-war settlements to the European continent by 1945. In the Second World War, fundamental human rights were trampled again, which re-emerged with the establishment of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Thus, 80 years have passed, which should also be said a big NO to rhetoric or diplomacy of arms and the attempt to dominate one nation over another, or to some kind of new and/or old phenomenon of enslaving inferior and/or smaller nations. After World War II, the superpowers or great nations promised the European people respect fo...

Perception of wealth and poverty

  In everyday life, we often had three categories in society in terms of wealth, namely the rich, the middle class and the poor. Of course, the perception or definition of all three classes is very different. We can often define that the middle class is actually sliding into the poor with social policy, because they are not actually entitled to social contributions and are actually the payers of all bills and they also have to provide themselves with accommodation or a home. It also appears that the so-called rich class of society with their perception of their position in society and of course also their lifestyle. The rich lifestyle is supposed to be free from at least any worries about the daily costs of living. The rich are even supposed to enjoy above-standard services and amenities. However, it is slowly emerging that the rich are not just enjoyers of everyday life without any pressure to survive. Stories of starting from nothing or poverty are common, or even stories of losi...

Balkan Migrant Odyssey

The most numerous migrant route to the European Union (EU) runs precisely through the so-called Balkans, if only because of its proximity to Asia. In 2023, Slovenia was replaced by neighboring Croatia in protecting the so-called Schengen border. The Schengen area, or the area without internal borders of the EU, has been an attractive destination for all types of migrants since its inception, including economic migrants and the real source of immigrant labor and, of course, economic expenditures and the increasing share of the unemployed among the working population in the EU. However, in 2025, the trends of migrant routes through the Balkans to the EU are only decreasing. Perhaps this was due to the predicted economic crisis or lower GDP per capita in the G-7 group itself, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Since 2009, the governments of the established BRIC and the current BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and S...

EU and asylum policy in numbers

  According to the latest data, in May 2025, 928,000 foreign citizens or migrants were waiting for their first asylum assistance in the European Union (EU). In the EU, 4.4 million people are already living under international protection. The largest number of people with international protection is said to live in Germany and Poland, although the largest number of foreigners per capita is settled in the Czech Republic. The largest number of applications for international protection was received in Spain, Italy and France in May 2025. Thus, Germany is slowly losing its attractiveness for those seeking international protection or asylum. The inhabitants of Syria have long been among the most numerous asylum seekers. But now they have fallen to fourth place. After the fall of the Assad regime and/or the fall of the caliphate, 1.5 million people were expected to return to Syria, but 80% of migrants from Syria do not want to return to their homeland. This year, the first place in terms ...

The meaning of human existence

  More than 8.2 billion humanity, which is increasing by more than 50%, or more than 50% more births than deaths in 2025, as a potential human workforce, is also facing accelerated robotization, which means replacing human labor with robotic labor. Thus, the paradox of the existence and meaning of humanity and their outlined technological path is slowly emerging. The technological idea that humans will no longer perform heavy physical work is tempting or attractive. However, this idea is less attractive when we consider the consequence, such as increased unemployment among the low-educated in the labor market. The consequences of increased unemployment can also be expected among the highly educated with the introduction of artificial intelligence, which will replace teachers, doctors, pilots, translators, etc. . The middle-educated working class will also be affected, as they should already be familiar with robot police officers, drone soldiers, traders, robot secretaries and more....

The victim is fed up

  We are increasingly hearing that the final product of a violent act was actually caused by a previous violent act or fraud or rhetorical violence with defamation or long-term mobbing, bullying, etc. Simply put, in such cases, it is a matter of settling scores between persons or groups without the courts and police. The former victim, now the perpetrator of the crime, is simply fed up and has taken the right to settle the injustices committed into his own hands. In the face of such events, even with the tragic end of a life taken, we can ask ourselves whether a tragic outcome of the conflict or negative social interaction with a tragic end was really necessary. We build our society on good interpersonal relationships, empathy for each other, mutual respect for human rights. We have private and social property secured and protected. In society, we are supposed to respect each other's physical integrity, etc. In addition, we instill in children from a young age family and social val...