Me too. The average person in the Balkans, especially younger folks, are all about Tiktok, fast food, and bad music. As soon as Black Friday hits at Zara, politics fades away. They never really wanted democracy, just consumerism. I'd go so far to say that if we had had Ikea and H&M in the 1980s, people would be too busy shopping to take a break and start a war. It's horrible but it might as well be true. After all, the Svetlana Aleksejewitsch wrote that Russians dreamed of Yugoslavian furniture. When the first McDonald's was launched in Belgrade, hundreds attended to try it. If that's not a defeat of a fight for free speech, I don't know what is.